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I must admit that history is one of my special interests and I do believe that the
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gone by. If the right lessons had been learnt in 1918 and afterwards, perhaps
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Winston Churchill, though a wonderful leader in time of War from 1940 to1945,
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unsuccessful. After WW2 , the United Nations has been, thankfully, more effective.
So what is this ‘remembrance’? Is it about looking back? Take yourself back to
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Our nation, as has been said frequently is, at this moment, very much a divided
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Jesus himself spoke of his own great sacrifice that he would make in dying on the
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