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Ian Lavender , best known for playing Private Pike in Dad’s Army , died this week .
The notion of fighting for your country is totally alien to us today .
Lavender himself will forever be associated not with his own catchphrase, but with perhaps the single most famous four words in British sitcom history: Don’t tell him, Pike !.
There was a strong sense that men of fighting age are now sharply divided.
On one side, there were those expressing loyalty to causes other than the British Crown .
On the other, were those who are now so discouraged by this recent admixture in their nation that they can no longer see the point.
Historians frequently talk about the Second World War as the foundational myth of modern Britain .
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