In the Middle Ages there was what was called the Truce of God. This was to have areas of the country where warfare was banned. Also, days and weeks where battle was forbidden.
‘There’s a little bit of Harry in the air’ when he walks round the camp the night before the Battle of Agincourt. Yes, they all got a night’s sleep before the battle commenced at the specified time in the morning. And it was all hand to hand combat where the military virtues of courage and fortitude were to the fore.
What have we got now? Someone presses a button on a battleship and a cruise missile rockets to its intended target thousands of miles away. Or drone attacks operated from the Pentagon with no personal risk whatsoever. There’s just something obscene about it for me.
Nominated by Miles Plastic
To assist your understanding.
now to make you shit your pants.



