Fight worth fighting

In response to Endeavour Hills resident Mr John Glazebrook’s take on modern European history (Re-writing History, News 20 February).
His assertions that governments used propoganda to morally blackmail a generation isn’t entirely untrue but his suggestion that A.I.F enlistments were mainly young enemployed is spurious at best.
Had Germany won the war, does Mr Glazbrook honestly believe everybody would’ve simply packed their kits and gone home?
Germany invaded Belgium and France and in victory her ambitions wouldn’t have been restricted to mainland Europe. (Just as her Ottoman allies didn’t exactly stay in Turkey after Gallipoli.)
If Mr Glazebrook ever ventures to Belgium or France, he’ll see many Australian headstones with the epitaph: “No man hath greater love than this – than to lay down his life for his friend.”
If that’s not mateship, what is?
Anzac Day isn’t the glorifications of war, it’s the rememberance of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for a cause they believed true. The fight for freedom.
Had Britain lost the war, her dominions (including Australia) would’ve been subject to conditions that made the Versailles Treaty seem aenemic.
Mr Glazebrook could do well to adopt a more pan-optic view of that conflict.
John Howard,
Cranbourne.