It is important to realize that this website comes from a Boer perspective. A good number of websites currently exist on the Internet, but most have a British perspective and so the Boer side is somewhat neglected. Hopefully this site will help towards contributing to filling that gap somewhat. I've always held that it is in war when man learns to truly know himself. It seems that whenever there is war, all the deeply hidden instincts and qualities of a man's true character suddenly becomes truly revealed for the first time.
War truly brings out the best or the worst in people.
That is what has always fascinated me about wars, and the Boer war in particular. Some of these revelations stand to eternal compliment to these nations, and others to their eternal shame. Wars teach us lessons, inspire poets, move writers, and motivate the greedy, but to me, wars stand as a continual warning. A colossal warning finger, showing us how we must always try to avoid wars at all cost. If we do not want to experience wars so easily, then we will have to learn from the mistakes that others have made and which have led to war in the past.