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A remarkable utterance by Dean Inge was a feature of the annual Service for limbless ex-Soryleemen in St Paul's Cathedral.
It was the first time they had gathered there, the Service having hitherto been held a St. Martin-in- the-Fields. The men, who number Honio hundreda, belong to the St. Martin Association for Limbless Ex-Servicemen, and are from all parts of London.
Some incapacitated from walking or resident in outlying county arena were brought in motor-ambulances. A fow had to be carried into and from the Cathedral, and some were Tho in self-propelled bath chaire.
and with majority, on crutches sticks, came individually, often ac-. companied by friends.
Dean Inge, who, preached, 'sald the Great War, unlike all previous wars, kept men in the trenches con- stantly exposed to terrible engines of destruction. The only set-off to that was the very small percentage of deaths from sickness, which, in carlier wars carried off far more men than the bulleta of the enemy. In the Great War against Napo- leon, between 1793 and 1815, the almost incredibly small number of 20,000 were killed in action, where- as 194,000 died of sickness.
"Have wo half-forgotten those terrible four years?" he said.; Thinking of the crowds that yearly gathered on Armistice Day, one was inclined to say "Most certainly not." Yet, on the other days of the -year did we think enough about it? Did we think that most of the middle-aged men we met had been through the terrible experiences they hardly ever talked about?
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"Where is the unce familiar figure of the boastful old soldier who loved to fight his battles over again?" asked. the Dean.. "We never meet him now. I suppose the realities of those terrible years were really too bad to talk about, One wonders what they are think ing about it all. Many of them, no doubt, feel that the older genera- tion blundered badly to make such a dlauster possible."
They saw around them just the things which It was hoped would not be seen after the War-luxury, wasto, Idleness, frivolity, and cinas conflicts. Was this the England which many of their comrades died to preserve?
And then the young people, who did not remember the War, did: they realise that it was for them to see to it that nothing. of the kind happened again? He feared that the silence of the old soldiers of the Great War had been carried a little too far, and that a genera- tion had grown up who were not warned of the awful possibilities of another war, which would probably wreck civilisation altogether.
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