While walking around a national cemetery, it can seem like memorialising the war dead is a given, but governments have not always honoured their fallen. For much of history, soldiers who died in combat were left to rot on battlefields or buried in mass graves.
In this episode of The Weekend Intelligence, senior producer Tamara Gilkes Borr visits memorials and speaks with historians to explore how two deadly wars transformed the status of the average soldier, and how evolving ideas of equality and democracy shape the way nations honour their dead today.
For the episode about Il Barcone, the migrant ship that sank off the coast of Libya, listen to \"They had names\" on The Weekend Intelligence.
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