Michael Bentley's Blog – October 2008 Archive (2)

Remembrance Day is always a bit of an ambivalent occasion for me. On the one hand, I’m awe-struck by the courage of the thousands and thousands of soldiers who have voluntarily suffered terror, injury and death in the wars of the past hundred years, sometimes - as in World War Two - in defence of the liberty of us all. As someone with an intense fear of hardship and pain, I’m not sure I could be brave enough to do that under any circumstances,… Continue

I've written a lot of articles and reports over the past few years, mainly for the newsletter of my local peace group. So as it's a year since Stop the War Coalition's 'Not One More Death' demonstration against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and since there are quite a few photos of the event on my iPeace page, I thought I'd include what I wrote then as my first blog entry.



Somewhat to my own surprise, I made it to Stop the War’s march on Monday 8 October. Tony Benn’s… Continue