BBC NEWS reports the solemn ceremonial military reception in Britain of "sacred soil" collected from seventy battlefields in Belgium by schoolchildren.
A museum official who received it spoke with apparent sincerity of the special bond between the peoples of Britain and Belgium.
BBC reminds us next year will be the 100th anniversary of the start of The Great War.
The soil will be central to ceremonies.
Even while it was being fought and for a century thereafter, this war was all but universally thought a vast disaster without point, brought on by the utter incompetence of the European ruling classes.
Perhaps the patriots will win out over that view, in the long run.
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