VE Day

VE Day celebrations were mainly about the Second World War and "victory" against the Nazi regime. 

The most powerful images of war are for me the war poets, I've never been in the armed forces and I like to think I would have had the courage to be a conscientious objector, I somehow doubt it.

Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves were writers and poets I remember well in particular. Educated men who eloquently voiced the appalling nature of warfare.  I always felt it was a pity the language the war poets used was rather remote from the men who were effectively cannon fodder . These men could perhaps have drawn most benefit from understanding what the hell they were on about.