Eighty years on from VE Day, it’s crucial we remember how ethnically diverse those veterans were and how much they can teach us about the meaning of life.
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Veterans are rightly centered in D-day events but the speeches that invited heads of state deliver bring proceedings into the geopolitical present.
Politicians wishing to stoke divisions invoke the Cenotaph knowing it will be a successful gambit because so many find solace in its meaning.
