Ghouls dig up bodies in Europe

I heard this on the BBC news this morning, and found it incredibly offensive:

Exhumation underway

They're digging up about 400 bodies of British and Australian soldiers that were killed in a battle in WWI and buried by the Germans after the cease-fire the Germans offered to allow the other side to gather their dead was rejected. Now they want to dig them all up and ID them with DNA testing, and then bury them individually with head stones and full military honors. They died in 1916.

Does anyone think this matters? What is it about militarism that makes people think this kind of ritual has any importance at all? Is it guilt on the part of the military? Could it be remorse on the part of the military establishment that sent 5,000 living, vital men to die in a storm of exploding steel, in 45 minutes, in one battle, to gain nothing? The men are dead. Their commanders are dead. The children and grandchildren of the men and the commanders are all dead. Nothing will bring them back, and nothing will reverse the wrong of their fathers' and sons' and brothers' dying. Quit it. Let them rest. This is a social ritual that should be ended. It promotes and reinforces all the wrong values. There is no glory in war, there is just burning, exploding steel that smashes bodies and randomly erases dreams. There is no respect or honor among the corpses. And, in that war, there was no honor at the top either. Vile and craven old men on all sides, driven to actions motivated by values from the previous century sent hundreds of thousands to certain death in a newly mechanized war. This ritual can only honor the military establishment that brought about the insane and idiotic war in the first place. End it. It's over. It's an embarrassment and an indictment.