Canon Was Right But You Can't Negotiate With Mad Men.

Canon Michael Storey, Healey Wood Road, Brighouse. 
I WRITE this on August 4, the day in 1914 that Great Britain declared war on Germany. Various events have been and are taking place this year to commemorate various anniversaries of the Great War. I was very privileged to be able to go to Oppy Wood, North East of Arras on May 3 this year, exactly 100 years since my father, Private W.B. Storey, a Hull Pal, had been taken prisoner there. I stood by the war memorial to the “Kingston upon Hull Pals” and shed a tear. I went along to Tyne Cot Cemetery, hence I did appreciate the two programmes on Passchendaele on TV, and your splendid cover in The Yorkshire Post. Your heading “One hundred years, tears still flow for fallen heroes” applied to me, as I watched on TV. Oh that those horrors would really cause the nations of our world to spend more time on “jaw jaw” and not “war war”, as Winston Churchill said.
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