100 years since Armistice, have we learned the true cost of war?
IT has been a scene forever imprinted on my consciousness – a small, quiet room in the winter of 1976 when I instantly felt transported back 60 years as I witnessed the ongoing torment of a dozen long-since brutalised old men. For whatever the location of what was left of their bodies, their hearts and souls unquestionably remained back in that place called Gallipoli after what they had experienced there during those months that spanned 1915 and early 1916.
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