Beauty and tragedy in global network of war graves

Full story: Kansas City Star

It is the British empire of the dead.Scattered across 150 countries and managed from a modest office building near London's Heathrow Airport, a global patchwork of graveyards constitutes a beautiful memorial to the ugliest carnage: the 1.7 million fighting men and women who died for Britain and its dominions in the world wars of the last ...

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Dan USA

Milwaukee, WI

Yes British imperialism sacrificed so many lives, to prop the swell-headed nobility, but failed to deliver the much needed establishment of national public education of their subject peoples. And now the world pays the price for such failure. Send the new world bills to The Parliment House Of Lords.

Dan USA

Milwaukee, WI

Allow me to continue. For all blame is not of the English Lords, but also of the Muslim Emirs, Muftes and other dictators who have no concern for the public education of their peoples, and worse, no action to improve the educational standards of a now defunct Islamic clergy.

Bronx Boy

Tel Aviv, Israel

I admit that as a whole group the British had the
best of intentions. Unfortunately they allowed
the bureacrats to control the whole system which
eventually led to it's demise.

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