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'This isn't the Britain we fought for,' say the 'unknown warriors' of WWII
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 21st November 2009 | Tony Rennell

Posted on 11/20/2009 6:57:37 PM PST by naturalman1975

Sarah Robinson was just a teenager when World War II broke out.

She endured the Blitz, watching for fires during Luftwaffe air raids armed with a bucket of sand.

Often she would walk ten miles home from work in the blackout, with bombs falling around her.

As soon as she turned 18, she joined the Royal Navy to do her bit for the war effort.

Hers was a small part in a huge, history-making enterprise, and her contribution epitomises her generation's sense of service and sacrifice.

Nearly 400,000 Britons died. Millions more were scarred by the experience, physically and mentally.

But was it worth it? Her answer - and the answer of many of her contemporaries, now in their 80s and 90s - is a resounding No.

They despise what has become of the Britain they once fought to save. It's not our country any more, they say, in sorrow and anger.

Sarah harks back to the days when 'people kept the laws and were polite and courteous. We didn't have much money, but we were contented and happy.

'People whistled and sang. There was still the United Kingdom, our country, which we had fought for, our freedom, democracy. But where is it now?!'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: england; veteran; wwii
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1 posted on 11/20/2009 6:57:37 PM PST by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975

I’m sure all the Muslim immigrants understand her sacrifice


2 posted on 11/20/2009 7:01:42 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: naturalman1975

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IIzNmLDvb8


3 posted on 11/20/2009 7:03:50 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Pray for Obama...Psalms 109:8)
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To: naturalman1975
And what is being hatched now in Washington is not the America I fought for!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
4 posted on 11/20/2009 7:04:38 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: naturalman1975

I can imagine how she feels.


5 posted on 11/20/2009 7:05:39 PM PST by Gapplega (j)
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To: naturalman1975
We, too, would dishonor our forebears who sacrificed, fought for, established and preserved freedom in the USofA if ultimately the Obama and his Merry Band of Marxists are allowed to succeed with their desire to fundamentally transform America.

Future generations of Americans should be afforded the opportunity to live in the freedom that those of us in this generation were born to.

6 posted on 11/20/2009 7:08:17 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
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To: ConorMacNessa

Obama is using the SAME playbook the left with the Muslim Brotherhood used in the UK.

Keep watching TV and paying the cable tv and sat TV companies because it is their most effective tool. Your cable/sat TV bill doles out $1 a month to CNN, $1 to NBC/MCNBC/CNBC, etc. I cancelled my service.


7 posted on 11/20/2009 7:08:48 PM PST by Frantzie (Judge David Carter - democrat & dishonorable Marine like John Murtha.)
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To: naturalman1975

All I can say is “A-fu*kin’-men”.


8 posted on 11/20/2009 7:13:51 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: ConorMacNessa

That’s right.

These Ballerina’s, and Fudge Packers currently running the show from the WH never lifted a finger to defend this Nation. Actually they have careers fighting our country.

These anus orifices one and all are either the radicals from the sixties, or their illegitimate offspring.

Regardless, we must stand and rid ourselves of the stench they emit over America.


9 posted on 11/20/2009 7:15:44 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: naturalman1975

I couldn’t finish reading the article because I just felt so awful for those folks. The horror they saw and sacrifice that they made for England, wasted.

I so admire that lost England. I have a book called This England by Nat. Geographic from the 60s, and the nation pictured in that book was still so proud, resolute, and cherishing their 900+ years of history by still living it everyday. They were the ones to bring greatness to so many lands, including our own.

For England to have lost all sense of what it is can only have happened through a deliberate plot to rob the nation of its heritage and subordinate it to the god of political correctness.


10 posted on 11/20/2009 7:17:00 PM PST by VanDeKoik (Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
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To: naturalman1975

my mother grew up in England when England was being bombed
My grand dad was fighting and my nana did her bit making the ammo in a factory

All of them at that time were on rations for food etc.
My mam had to be sent off to the country side as most kids did because the city was being bombed and she had to say with an unknown family

I did my time in the service too ,
I know the stories and sacrifices as I heard about them all my life.

Now adays the UK has a large influx of pakistani;s who don’t give a crap and the younger generation look tot he Govt for their handouts.

It is not the same country what so ever but saying that neither is this country anymore.

The history channel has been doing shows showing unseen footage form the war in the pacific and Europe, it is in HD and color and I advise any person to watch them.
You see Americans and the British fighting but also civilians doing their work.

Nowadays we have a bunch of wimps who care about nothing but themselves and what they can get off others.

Clint eastwood was right, we have little spoilt twits now


11 posted on 11/20/2009 7:17:13 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman, end of. -end racism end affirmative action)
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To: naturalman1975
Kiss it all goodbye...

nobody wants to work hard and acheive...

they all want to be lindsey lohan...

stoned and shopping!

12 posted on 11/20/2009 7:18:11 PM PST by Nitro
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To: VanDeKoik

The final straw was when the population was disarmed. This the Brits brought on themselves.

The day will come when the Muslims start openly slaughtering people, as they have done for a thousand years once they reach critical mass.

That will happen in the next 5 to 10 years.


13 posted on 11/20/2009 7:21:02 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA))
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To: naturalman1975

We (the USA) may be late to the party. But we’re about to become the UK’s partner is Socialism, thanks to the LibTards.


14 posted on 11/20/2009 7:21:52 PM PST by dbrew2u
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To: Nitro

I don’t wanna be a braindead frecklefaced stick girl...although I hear she gets her share of women...hmmm


15 posted on 11/20/2009 7:24:03 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Pray for Obama...Psalms 109:8)
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To: VanDeKoik

please read my post above this.

It breaks my heart to see my old country go the way it has.
People then would help each other.
Street parties etc now there are places one cannot go because if you’re white or wearing a cross you can be killed and some have.
pubs have been burned down, churches have been attacked and burned.

No way was those lives worth it , people like my family did their bit in that war and now we have ungrateful little fu### who care for nothing .
We have pakistani’s who are taking over neighborhoods and attacking folk because they are not muslim

An old man by the name of walter chamberlain(google him) was walking in the street.
He was a vet from the war and was about 72
A bunch of pakistani’s attacked him and nearly killed him and then told him that he was not allowed to be where he was because that was their area now.

Imagine how he feels, he saw his mates killed, cities destroyed, he saw horrors and risked his life and now gets attacked and told this is not his country off some third world immigrants who want tot take over the country.

And now we still have idiots who turn a blind eye to this and welcome folks who care nothing about this country.

it is disgusting


16 posted on 11/20/2009 7:24:58 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman, end of. -end racism end affirmative action)
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To: naturalman1975
A widow from Solihull blamed the Thatcher years 'when we started to lose all our industry and profit became the only aim in life'.

A trade unionist widow...the types who at the very least tolerated union leftism that led to Labour being able to destroy Britain.

Thatcher was able to stave off disaster for 11 years. Major then threw it all away.

17 posted on 11/20/2009 7:28:21 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: steelyourfaith

“We, too, would dishonor our forebears who sacrificed, fought for, established and preserved freedom in the USofA if ultimately the Obama and his Merry Band of Marxists are allowed to succeed with their desire to fundamentally transform America.”

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A crucial aspect and large portion of that destruction is about to occur tomorrow.


18 posted on 11/20/2009 7:28:40 PM PST by EyeGuy
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To: naturalman1975
They despise what has become of the Britain they once fought to save. It's not our country any more, they say, in sorrow and anger.

Not making that sacrifice, nor living the same period of time, I can only imagine how disappointing it must be for Britain's heroes of days long gone.
19 posted on 11/20/2009 7:36:28 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: naturalman1975

Thanks for the article - a lengthy one and a good read.

But a sad read.


20 posted on 11/20/2009 7:36:48 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Obama's Deathcare ---- many will suffer and/or die unnecessarily.)
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