re: #165 Shiplord Kirel

In Surprised by Joy, CS Lewis relates that only 3 of the 55 members of the class ahead of his (1916) survived the war. “The Somme consumed the rest.”

Honestly such a experience would make me a pacifist. I certainly don’t condone the appeasement of the Nazis in the 30’s but people who blindly condemn the British and French leadership at that time ignore what they were coming out of. We have the wonderful benefit of having hindsight bias and knowing what the Nazis were.