I wrote about the need for the 90 day detention in terrorist cases. Need not have bothered by the wave of comments but it is nice to see that an accepted writer seems to agree with me.
Trafalgar Day today. Bit of a sham really in celebration terms. We had that farce of a day at sea earlier in the year when we were not allowed to mention French and Spanish involvement. Given the sad lack of demonstrating our martial past, I suppose we have to be happy that it even got a mention. The VE and VJ celebrations are now all but dead. We seemed to be punishing ourselves more for being party to the atomic bombing over Japan that remembering just how many lives were saved by their use at that time. Where is Waterloo Day? It goes down well on the continent but seems to concentrate there on a French cry "We woz robbed". What about the Battle of Britain?. I suppose the Church would go all mealy-mouthed as they did with the Falklands celebration.
Poking about on the net and in the back rooms of my mind, I came to realise just what we have lost. Service of one's country was paramount - even amongst sailors forced into the navy courtesy of the press gangs. The army of today presents, to me, the image that it is seen as a career just like joining a major corporate entity where self-advancement is the motivation. Service as a vocation has gone.
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