Since then every November 11 the United Kingdom commemorates to its nearly two million deaths that occurred in those two major conflicts as well as to the 16,000 who have had in all wars of the last six decades. Our sympathies with all our British brethren who suffered the horror of these massacres and who lost relatives in it. Many emphasize the role of the United Kingdom for having forged the current democratizing and liberal global model. However, what motivated these wars was the need to open more markets or dependencies for one or the other power. For many British troops helped defeat fascism and communism and now come to fight fundamentalism. For others they have defended an empire.
In the third world, there are many who claim to the independence of the India, Malaysia, Egypt and other former colonies who fought the soldiers of her Majesty. In Latin America the wound of the war of the Falklands remains open. The conflict of 25 years ago found throughout this region (except for Pinochet’s Chile) support to Argentina, who still claims to these islands. Today one of the main aspects of the celebration yesterday was honoring fallen more than 200 Britons to recover the Falklands. These days, it is unusual to see many people placed a red flower in his lapel to show their solidarity with the fallen, although this is not within the majority of Latin Americans or other ethnic minorities in these islands.
Many Irish nor share it and in the official celebrations as the unionist participated in these first (Paisley) Northern Ireland Secretary but didn’t make his vice you could see (the nationalist McGuinness). We honor the tombs of the fallen and hope there are no more British soldiers killed in conflict. The latter could help achieve it if London decided not to wrap in new occupations that lit the bonfire and also generate so many internal security problems.