#78 Remembrance Day - Aren't We Forgetting Something?

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English - November 11, 2022 06:22 - 20 minutes - 19 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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We don't apologise for repeating this broadcast made for Remembrance Day 2020. The story is so important it's worth telling again and again.At least 50% of deaths from war in the last three centuries were civilians. In 2001 the International Red Cross calculated that in modern warfare ten civilians die for every member of the military killed in battle. In the two World Wars the vast majority of soldiers were "civilians in uniform" - conscripts or volunteers. But do we officially remember them?

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