"The proper response to memorials, to lists of the dead who often shared the same surname and mother, is not just respect and grief. It is rage. This anger is not the same as tarnishing or taking their memory lightly or in vain, that is what those who tell stories about them do. Nor does calling terrified and unlucky soldiers who die or are horribly injured on landlines or roadside bombs "heroes" penetrate the reality of their situation or experience; this may console their next of kin, but is of no real use in preventing the next war, or the one after that. These misrepresentations provide us with a world that is not fit for heroes, only a world fit for more wars. Ypres is an eloquent meditation on such complacency, on valour and its misuse, as well as a memorial to the battles, and war, that was meant to end them all".