[C19fan]

Having been born in the East End of London in 1925, Alec is, as he proudly says, a ‘real Cockney’.

Damn imagine your hometown getting taken over by Paks and Bengalis, ethnic cleansing the real Cockneys.

[Netz]

Imagine reflecting on an entire lifetime where your youth was taken from you in war. You believed in the cause greater than yourself. Now, 80 years later you see the society you fought for is all but gone. He is not the first WWII veteran to bemoan this epoch in history.
I wonder of returning veterans from WWI felt the same way by 1960 in the UK...