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Originally Posted by phoenix80
I think it has some thing to do with the Education System. Doesnt it? | its probably more to do with shifting values.
if you want to know it you will teach yourself. if you dont, you wont
what does memorising it do, other than give you an opportunity to look down on others and berate them for thier lack of nationalism
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If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
Author: Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith
Source: Statement, to House of Commons, Declaration of War with Germany, Aug. 4, 1914
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