Iain Macwhirter: Remember the dead and remember that the price of peace is eternal vigilance

MY grandfather was a pacifist in the First World War. He was also an elder of the Kirk, and was thrown out for his opposition to conscription. That would be inconceivable today, and is perhaps a measure of just how far militarism has been expunged from public consciousness. We simply can’t imagine millions of men going willingly – and most did – to be slaughtered on an industrial scale in the trenches, and with the Church urging them on. The passions that drove war fever have long lain dor . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17215772.iain-macwhirter-remember-the-dead-and-remember-that-the-price-of-peace-is-eternal-vigilance/