David Cameron has found £50 million from the UK's overstretched budget for events to mark the centenary of the Great War.
David Cameron has found £50 million from the UK's overstretched budget for events to mark the centenary of the Great War.
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Tom Shields
That's the Great War of 1914. The war that would end all war. Twenty-five years later it was renamed the First World War as the whole business kicked off again.
In 2014 there will be grants to grow poppies and loads of parades and saluting. Two pupils from every school in England will be sent back to 1914 frontlines to discover how Great War heroes died. But not why they died. UK defence minister Andrew Murrison says: "The commemorations will be very much focused on remembrance, making no judgment on right or wrong."
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Remember: it wasn't great
David Cameron has found £50 million from the UK's overstretched budget for events to mark the centenary of the Great War.
That's the Great War of 1914. The war that would end all war. Twenty-five years later it was renamed the First World War as the whole business kicked off again.
In 2014 there will be grants to grow poppies and loads of parades and saluting. Two pupils from every school in England will be sent back to 1914 frontlines to discover how Great War heroes died. But not why they died. UK defence minister Andrew Murrison says: "The commemorations will be very much focused on remembrance, making no judgment on right or wrong."
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