'I wanted to bring every single person presently complaining publicly about anything and stand them right here. I would stand them all there and say: “Right? Get it?” And I would achieve nothing, but I’d feel better,' Anthony Peregrine writes.
The war cemetery in Bayeux contains more graves than any other Second World War Commonwealth cemetery in France. I was there just short of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, and feeling furious. Granted, it had taken me a while to get worked up, via a variety of sentiments. First, self-pity: what if one of these 4,647 tombs had belonged to my own son? I’m not sure I’d ever have recovered. I’m not made of war-time material.
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