Earlier today, Peter Tatchell launched a a petition on Change.org and publicised it on twitter arguing that the Dead, not the generals should be the focus of our remembrance of WW1
Urge @RoyalMintUK to replace #Kitchener £2 coin with one that commemorates the millions who died in #WW1. SIGN: http://t.co/MaiY8558Y6
— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) January 3, 2014
Also at opendemocracy, an article entitled, “Hiding behind the Cenotaph, Cameron will seek to re-write history” makes a longer and better evidenced appeal to remember that
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santanya, “Reason in Common Sense” 1905
I recommend you read the Opendemocracy article, it reminds us that WW1 was a bloody culmination of a race to empire where dead paid the ultimate price under the incompetent, malevolent and propertied leadership, both political and military.