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Militarism should not be glamorised in our schools
SYMON HILL, of the Peace Pledge Union, warns of growing alarm over military visits to schools, which encourage and normalise war and support for it among young people
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IN 2019, the Facebook page of a children’s nursery in Lincolnshire featured photos of small children wearing real military body armour. 

The nursery had been visited by a soldier who had talked to the children and invited them to try on his helmet and parts of his uniform. 

These children, barely older than toddlers, had not been given any sense of what happens to human bodies and minds in war. They had been taught to associate uniforms and military equipment with fun and excitement. 

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