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While war itself remains as a possible policy option for modern states, no commemoration of past wars can be entirely pacific. Beneath the wholly admirable expressions of reconciliation and peaceful coexistence which almost invariably (and rightly) now accompany war commemoration, so long as states continue to possess armed forces and are evidently prepared to use them, there will always be some still, small voice reminding us that on occasion, for some communities and for some states, war works