Fighting for the empire and for Home Rule

I AGREE with some of your editorial comment (Irish Examiner, June 27) concerning the Battle of the Somme, but feel it missed one very important point.

Those who fought in 1916 and in the War of Independence were fighting for their own country in a just cause.

They also, unfortunately, had little choice but to use force, whatever the revisionists say.

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