It’s not just another Bank Holiday Monday to celebrate a great national occasion. Today is special for another reason. It is the anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, the day when the German Nazi regime finally surrendered after being fought by Britain and its allies for nearly five years.
Millions were lost in that conflict on the battlefields of the world and millions more were murdered by the Nazis in their quest for a Europe and indeed a world dominated by Germany.
Let us take a moment to remember those who fought against an enemy that could not and would not be negotiated with or appeased and remember also those who because of their deaths in World War II did not get to celebrate the end of one of the most monstrous regimes to afflict the world in the 20th Century.
Wow, so you are saying that once upon a time this country (and its allies) beat the real, evil, genocidal, murderous nazis?
And there was me thinking that anyone that disagrees with the left was a nazi rather than the real utterly horrible thing?
Proper respect to all those that fought against this and gave their lives. Also those like my Grandfather Charlie and Great Uncle Tom whose lives were shortened by their wartime suffering.
Before Britain’s population turned into a jelly like mass that runs and hides from ‘hurty words’, Britain, it’s allies and those from its Empire did indeed fight and defeat real evil murderous Nazis.
Most of today’s Left would probably fold when confronted with its first real Nazi if they were put in a similar situation to those our ancestors faced. I agree that the Left misuses the terms ‘Nazi’ and ‘fascist’ with worrying regularity. However the Left of today is rather reticent in admitting that in the early stages of the war, when the Molotov / Von Ribbentrop Pact was in operation, the Left were very much against fighting our countering Nazis on the grounds that it was allied at that time with the Soviet Union.
I agree that we should have proper respect for those who fought, those who died and those who survived but with debilitating physical and mental injuries.