No alternatives

Brian Hodkinson offers a proposal regarding white poppies

A wild white poppy. | Photo: Tony Hisgett / flickr CC.

‘No alternatives’ – a phrase used by my father (a very staunch Methodist) as his answer to my question: ‘How did you justify going to world war two at the same time as being a Christian?’ His reply was: ‘What alternatives did we have?’

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