Nearing 100 years later, and you all still take a moment to think of us poor chaps in the trenches, and all the unpleasantness that was the Great War. It's an unusual feeling. It seems referred to more now than it was in my time.
Is that simply the result of a retrospective look at all the whole ghastliness? Do you feel distanced from it,is it to say "this was then, but we will not be like that now-", or is it an attempt to remind ourselves that this is not distant, this is human, there have been more wars since, and there shall be more to come?
I was certainly successful in the war. It provided opportunities that I would never have had otherwise- scarcely worth all that, though.