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    Grappling with evil

    Oct 28, 2021 6 minutes
    Daniel Johnson

    AWAR MEMORIAL WAS VANDALISED IN Chiswick recently. Police appealed for witnesses to an act of criminal damage to the stone bench at the Church of St Michael and All Angels, erected a century ago “to the glory of God and in memory of the 44 men from Bedford Park who gave their lives in the service of their country in the Great War”. The vandals prised off several of the bronze plaques on which their names are recorded. Such crimes are too common to attract much attention, but a local news website reported it.

    I went to see the place. Words and pictures cannot convey the viciousness that must have inspired such a callous desecration. Those who survived the war built thousands of memorials like this all over the country, each a thing of beauty as well as a homage to . Now the First World War has receded beyond living memory, the impious and the ignorant feel entitled to deface

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