I can see this from both sides.
Emotions run high at this time of year with Armistice Day and so on but JHFC has a point.
I remember chatting to a German who lives here and she remarked how the British are obsessed with the
past, incessantly nostalgic about bombs and the Battle of Britain, how we've turned all this "Dunkirk spirit" into an industry with even TV stations constantly re running old newsreels. She had a point.
BUT if you go to Berlin you see the same sort of thingjust expressed differently.
There enormous monuments stand as eternal reminders to what happens when the madmen take over.
There's even one monument to "Blitzkrieg" which mentions and depicts Coventry.
The Germans do not want this airbrushed out of history.
The present day wars are no longer about principles of freedom. We're in Afghanistan to protect our ~(or American) commercial concerns.
Our soldiers do a great job but dont kid yourselves that this is about the same values,,,, it isn't.
Emotions run high at this time of year with Armistice Day and so on but JHFC has a point.
I remember chatting to a German who lives here and she remarked how the British are obsessed with the
past, incessantly nostalgic about bombs and the Battle of Britain, how we've turned all this "Dunkirk spirit" into an industry with even TV stations constantly re running old newsreels. She had a point.
BUT if you go to Berlin you see the same sort of thingjust expressed differently.
There enormous monuments stand as eternal reminders to what happens when the madmen take over.
There's even one monument to "Blitzkrieg" which mentions and depicts Coventry.
The Germans do not want this airbrushed out of history.
The present day wars are no longer about principles of freedom. We're in Afghanistan to protect our ~(or American) commercial concerns.
Our soldiers do a great job but dont kid yourselves that this is about the same values,,,, it isn't.