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A Very Different World, Indeed.
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I’ve just been watching the Remembrance Ceremony. David Dimbleby interviewed a veteran of D-Day. He is 100 and one of the few still alive who took part in the 1944 landings. He was explaining how, when wading ashore from the landing craft they were being strafed by German aircraft. His pal, a few feet away from him, was hit and killed. He realised this was a bit different to training and that he might be next. He said, “I thought to myself, I’m 20, I’ve had a good life, if this is it, this is it”.
Then I remembered reading last week that the Guardian newspaper had offered its staff “all the support and counselling they need” because Donald Trump had been elected as President of the USA.
I wonder how much counselling the D-Day veteran received?
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It is indeed a very different word. I was beginning to think some may need such counselling since Sir Keir won the GE.
Trump wants to make America great again.
Putin wants to make Russia whole and great again. Putin praising Trump, calling him brave. You do for sure have 2 idiots, very dangerous idiots.
What comes out of their mouths is far from what there actions will be.
Pathetic isn't it! There's even a syndrome....
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I'm not really arguing about the merits (or otherwise) of Mr Trump. I'm more seeking comments on the difference between 80 years ago, where a 20 year old sees his pal shot dead in front of him but just gets on with it, and an employer who believes its staff may need counselling because a candidate who they may not have preferred in an election in a foreign country, was successful.
"I'm not sure today's youth would be so compliant (in such numbers)."
I'm absolutely certain they wouldn't be, dave. I don't think the country needs to worry too much about lack of equipment in the event of a major conflict which required mass mobilisation. There would simply not be the number of people required to use it.
Yes, a very different attitude. OH missed fighting in the war - he's 91, but was on active service during National Service - patrolling his platoon's section of the Iron Curtain in Germany where hehad his Lee Enfield and 5 rounds against the fully armed E. Germans training their Kalashnikovs on him.
One of the lads he did basic training with was killed.
He is not at all well at the moment, following a fall on Hallowe'en, but he turned up at church this morning, was not strong enough to carry the flag (as the oldest ex-serviceman)but somehow managed to lead a flag bearer up to the altar and down again at the end. He's been in bed asleep since then.
Some of this stoicism and sense of duty needs instilling into younger people, especially children, fast i.m.o..
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