The battle-field

This peaceful scene is like many in the area that we visited last week. It is now hard to believe that it is a place in which men slaughtered one another. This field is only about 25 miles from the battle-fields of the Somme, which was almost exactly 500 years after Agincourt; andapproaching another 100 years later we still hear daily of soldiers dying in battles across the world. I am reminded of the words of the Bob Dylan song "how many wars will it take 'til he knows that too many people have died?" and Marlene Dietrich a few years earlier, "when will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?"