If you partake in the
latter you deserve the former.
Never forget those who fell, and what they fought for.
Nor the lives of those dramatically changed by harrowing events and experiences; and the loss of their loved ones.
This seen on even the home-front.
From the loss of food-convoy merchant seamen born and bred in the likes of Milford Haven, with a last imaginary kiss from their own 'bomb-shell' blonde taped to their bunkbeds; to the perennially exhausted locomotive stokers, steaming through a thousand little towns like the latterly imagined 'Milford Junction', dreaming of their own 'brief encounter' with wives, girlfriends or new loves, yet to come.
And the 'never to return' heroines of the ATA who ferried their craft not across safe waterways, but the lonely and exposed skies, looking down upon church bells and up into the heavens; with only a good luck charm to see them safely through.
So, at time when much of the UK still needs social healing; let the best aspects of those who endured those dark days be not merely remembered, but serve as true inspiration.
They would be dumb-founded at modern society and the deluded arrogance of self-styled "heroes" whose lives are merely a comfortable patchwork of 'Isms' and misdirected anger, so far removed from the true inner-strength of the real 'Rosie the Riveter' or 'Trenchline Tommy".
May the true heroes and heroines all rest in peace.
And let modern Britons understand precisely why it was fractured societies and civil unrest across Europe that led to the atrocities that happened.
Don't be led by 'Ism's'....just be led by decency and fairness for one and all.
