Personally, I remember before the millenium when most British people would watch American sports events (baseball, American Football games) and be uncomfortable at the militarisation of their national identity - flyovers from jets, the idea that the national identity was shaped by the military. In the past few years, it's gotten worse here IMO - does no-one else find the canonisation and eulogising of military personnel deeply unsettling? Loads of countries have invested their sense of national pride in their military and, from the outside, it looks scary and misguided (USSR, Nazi Germany, North Korea, USA). From the inside of the UK over the past ten years, I find it even more unsettling that unquestioning support of the military is now ubiquitous. Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday have changed from reflective occasions to tub-thumping flag-waving ones. No-one can claim this is healthy
Thanks, that's lovely. 2: I was'nt in the Falklands, so no. On a broader scale I have never shagged any Army wives although given the chance I probably would have. 3: Ok
