Comments on: ‘This isn’t the Britain we fought for,’ say the ‘unknown warriors’ of WWII http://www.thenationalpolicyinstitute.org/2009/11/21/this-isnt-the-britain-we-fought-for-say-the-unknown-warriors-of-wwii/ Official Web site of the National Policy Institute Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Lwesson http://www.thenationalpolicyinstitute.org/2009/11/21/this-isnt-the-britain-we-fought-for-say-the-unknown-warriors-of-wwii/#comment-26938 Lwesson Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:53:04 +0000 http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/?p=7274#comment-26938 My Father, here in the US, towards the end of his life had re-thought his little "adventures" in WW 2 and came to the troubling conclusion that something was not right about how WW 2 was presented to him as a young man. Not that he had any fondness for the Japanese who he joined the Navy specifically to fight and was nearly killed but for the end result of the war many years later. He said that the America he grew up in was just fine despite the depression but the America he soon was to die in and that his children and grandchildren had to face was a nightmare. That was not what he wanted to leave behind for us and that is not why he served. He did not live long enough to see the "nightmare" truly blossom as it has here and in what was once was called, England. He had NO ill feelings for the Germans by the way and thought that the British leadership had a very dirty insidious hand in stirring the pot that became a bloody and destructive world war. But life after the war was good for him and he threw his life into providing for his family and enjoyed and became submerged the tidal surge of economic blessings that the United States initially had. "Initially had" are the operative words but business and life had him focused on personal issues and not the bigger ones that have consumed countries like Great Briton and the US. While he was busy others were likewise busy trying to CHANGE the world and dispose of people like my Father and his family, his culture, his race, his religion... . It took something akin to old Scrooge being visited by his own past, the present and the Grim Reaper of the Future to shake him from his sleep to look up and see the world as it really was and that was from not a Jacob Marley but rather facing his own mortality. So here we are. England is no longer and we in the US are in a quick pursuit of following England to the grave. What a great accomplishment World War Two was! Someone is celebrating and it is not the Victors nor the Vanquished. My Father, here in the US, towards the end of his life had re-thought his little “adventures” in WW 2 and came to the troubling conclusion that something was not right about how WW 2 was presented to him as a young man. Not that he had any fondness for the Japanese who he joined the Navy specifically to fight and was nearly killed but for the end result of the war many years later. He said that the America he grew up in was just fine despite the depression but the America he soon was to die in and that his children and grandchildren had to face was a nightmare. That was not what he wanted to leave behind for us and that is not why he served. He did not live long enough to see the “nightmare” truly blossom as it has here and in what was once was called, England.

He had NO ill feelings for the Germans by the way and thought that the British leadership had a very dirty insidious hand in stirring the pot that became a bloody and destructive world war. But life after the war was good for him and he threw his life into providing for his family and enjoyed and became submerged the tidal surge of economic blessings that the United States initially had. “Initially had” are the operative words but business and life had him focused on personal issues and not the bigger ones that have consumed countries like Great Briton and the US. While he was busy others were likewise busy trying to CHANGE the world and dispose of people like my Father and his family, his culture, his race, his religion… . It took something akin to old Scrooge being visited by his own past, the present and the Grim Reaper of the Future to shake him from his sleep to look up and see the world as it really was and that was from not a Jacob Marley but rather facing his own mortality.

So here we are. England is no longer and we in the US are in a quick pursuit of following England to the grave. What a great accomplishment World War Two was! Someone is celebrating and it is not the Victors nor the Vanquished.

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