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“There are so few people left alive from back then, you may as well be talking to them about the Black Death. Nobody recalls the shite in the 30s and that were fucking horrible. For Christ's sake, nobody wants to remember the shite in the 80s. It's all forgotten and swept under the rug by the newspapers and the BBC. They get nostalgic about the music, but they never want to mention the misery. It's all shite. As for the bloody Second World War, the politicians only talk about it when they need an excuse to go pissing about in one of those fucking Muslim countries.”

Memory Nostalgia Politicians Remembering Ww2 Forgetting The Past

Book:Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

Source: Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

“In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and afford the dead of war two minutes' silence. Afterwards, they speak golden platitudes about the struggle and the heroism of that time. Yet the words they speak are meaningless because they have surrendered the values my generation built after the horrors of the Second World War.”

War Values Sacrifice Remembrance World War 2 Poppy Poppies

Book:Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

Source: Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

“The sepia tone of November has become blood-soaked with paper poppies festooning the lapels of our politicians, newsreaders and business leaders … I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one’s right to privacy.”

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Author:Harry Leslie Smith