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A lot of public schools in the UK have their own war memorials, though the Eton one sounds considerably larger than the ones I've seen.
by arethuza 4y ago
A lot of public schools in the UK have their own war memorials, though the Eton one sounds considerably larger than the ones I've seen.
- Retric 4y agoThat seems surprising considering how many UK schools lost 10+% of their graduates in WWI + WWII.
- arethuza 4y agoFair point - pretty much every village and town in the UK has its own war memorials from WW1 and WW2. The village I grew up in has about 57 names for a population of 1000 or so: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/8670 https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/8670
- eddsh1994 4y agoThis is pretty interesting, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thankful_Villages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thankful_Villages
- tristor 4y agoThis is actually a reason why it's common. The impact was so large and so universally felt that nobody would object to the use of public funds to memorialize it. It merely takes someone to suggest it, and nobody would oppose.