On the anniversary of D Day, our war heroes are again denigrated as racists and nasty pieces of work

Douglas Bader and the other men imprisoned in Colditz Castle were once respected as embodying the best spirit of our forces during the Second World War. Now, it is fashionable to sneer at them.
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[@JustinSla7]

"If the British soldiers on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 could look forward to the end of the century and see what England has become, they would not have bothered to advance another 40 yards up the beach." David Irving

[@Mugwumps107]

I know that is a fact as I have spoken to many.

[@biggest23]

The Germans stood against the enemy, the allies stood with the enemy. Having multiple members of my family that fought in WW2 with the allies, that unattractive realisation took the longest time to become comfortable with.

[@Tom_Hadler]

aT lE45T wEře n0T sPeAkiNģ g3Rmän

[@icytucan5776]

Wow bunch of loser crying over nothing boo hoo😂😂😂

[@MarkJones-ji8fd]

​@@biggest23 it was for all of us, nobody is born a 'revisionist'. We all believed the propaganda to begin with

[@weareevil6912]

Those brave men that died in WW2 would turn in their graves if they could see what’s happened to their country

[@onlybugwit]

They ARE turning in their graves 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@LetsAllDrinkToTheDeathOfAClown]

They most certainly would have joined with NS Germany and her allies to eradicate communism once and for all if they knew what the future would behold.

[@andrewcooper-barnes6165]

Spinning rapidly in their graves. RIP

[@GreggFellows]

Bader's rude arrogant behaviour is well known, this is nothing new, it doesn't detract from what a Hero the man was... we all have flaws....even the best of us

[@golfbulldog]

To be fair, the nice guys tend not to push the limits of human endurance and achievement. I don't need heroes to be nice and well-balanced people, I need them to exception examples of what is possible.

[@idratherbeaphilthanajustin9533]

If these historical 'heroes' weren't Clark Kent in nature expect progressive historians and writers to dish the dirt.

[@notanumber1311]

@queer stammer yours are already showing after just four words.

[@Eric-kn4yn]

I can imagine bader was in Constant discomfort pain because of legs amputation physically emoitionally and experience of war service ok.

[@GreggFellows]

@@Eric-kn4yn it was his personality that caused him to have the accident in the first place..... but because of who he was he got back into active service

[@LS-xs7sg]

My grandfather was in the 2nd wave at sword beach and also fought in the north african campaign. He was undoubtedly a racist, sexist, homophobe and "little Englander" by any modern liberal standard. But he was also someone who worked every day of his life. Grew up in poverty (having to be fostered out because his mother couldnt afford to keep both her sons). He never broke the law. He had a rather ironic sense of humour. He was very reserved & unassuming (liberals would probably say repressed). He was gardening and riding his bike well into his 80s. Basically he was an Englishman of a certain generation and he looked after himself & those around him without ever asking for anything in return. And the fact that his England has been deliberately sabotaged and his generation demonised is the final betrayal it seems to me. Much of the ideology of modern liberalism revolves around Nazism as a kind of secular sinfulness. Once Christianity was driven from the public discourse Nazism/racism took the place of sin/satan as a kind of moral orientation point. But the truth is more complicated. I very much doubt the average British soldier joined up because the nazis were racist. They joined up because it was expected of them and because they didnt want foreign boots on British soil. Now we have millions of foreign boots on British soil and bulldog liberalism has been shelved in favour of an ideology which hates our people to the core

[@Occident.]

🙄 reading quotes like this, tells me we are f**ked in this country.

[@LS-xs7sg]

@@Occident. Why? I am far more racist and reactionary than my grandfather was. The war generation had wonderful qualities but they were used. At least those of us on the "alt-right", despite our faults, have a bit more insight into how power works.

[@nickmiller76]

Well put.

[@sharonmaddox3390]

Oh for the return of this type of English man. When men were men and women were women and children new their place in the world. Where there was respect for Law, society, monarch, our country and ourselves.

[@Dystopia2020]

Well said.

[@peterkelly8357]

I’ve not seen any mention of the D Day anniversary yet there are bound to hundreds of articles reminding us that June is Pride month and no doubt thousands of articles about blacks complaining about their lot in life.

[@RS-xo7rd]

So bloody right. My uncle went down on the 'Hood' aged 22 in 1941 when it was chasing the 'Bismark'. There were three survivors out of over a thousand crew, some only boys of 15 or 16. They never even got a chance to lose their innocence, let only have hurty feelings and feel an oppressed victim. My Grandmother never recovered form the loss, remaining bitter until her death in 1966, and my Grandfather died three years after his son. If we had a land war now, the bloody lefties, intellectuals and snowflakes would be applauding Putin all the way to the Houses of Parliament and offering him congratulations in completing their work against the country which nurtured and educated them.

[@garethwilliams976]

Remind you that this is the 79th Anniversary. Expect more on the 80th and 100th.

[@djlewis5149]

@@garethwilliams976 what anniversary is ‘pride’ this year then?

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

@@RS-xo7rd My thoughts are with your Uncle and what might have been for his life. My life owes itself to a small twist of fate to do with the Hood. My Father's father was a signalman on the Hood - he fortunately did not sail out on that voyage because he had broken his collarbone playing football. Every death in War truncates what a person may have been - to honour that sacrifice and ensure it never goes unwarranted is one of the reasons we should never forget. Unfortunately, we have ... and the Nation is poorer for it. It is a sad pathetic nation that not only forgets it's dead but also turns to denigrating them. The people who do this, quite obviously do not belong to the Nation.

[@sugarbertie1143]

June is June in our house, just another month of the year but includes The D Day anniversary and Fathers Day (and thats it) when I can remember my Dad who fought in the 8th Army in Italy, Greece, anf N Africa, and was at Cassino when it was bombed. He was my hero like many other brave lads and lasses who were called up. He was one of the lucky ones who came home and he also befriended a German officer when peacekeeping in Austria after the war ended. He respected the man and said 'they never wanted to fight us , they were just the same as we were'. My Dad always said , ' old H wouldn't have put up with the sh*t we've got in Britain today'. Food for thought! 🤔

[@gurnolla]

Cowards despise courage.

[@nickmiller76]

Except for a tiny number of people who've served in the armed forces, the vast majority of people in the UK have never had the opportunity to show courage, so the quality has become downgraded, belittled and despised. These days a lot of people think 'courage' means P Schofield 'coming out' on the telly. Yes, that's really how bad it's become. We are truly in dire straits.

[@TPT6148]

It's OK, history books will soon be making them black!

[@HeinrichDixon]

At least they would become heroes again, TPT. 🍌😤

[@markc3258]

Those poor poor boys died for nothing 😢

[@lutajucientropija6643]

Arguably they died for less than nothing

[@kerrytakashi12]

It was a grand offering to the god the controllers worship. That is all any war is about...sacrifice.

[@barneyreichman127]

When you give the country away then of course our culture, Heritage and everything that's been fought for will be trashed. We've allowed ourselves to become second class citizens in our own country.

[@barneyreichman127]

BunFight200 Troll

[@evolassunglasses4673]

We got captured by international finance and the Global American Empire in 1945 and never broke free.

[@annmorgan5130]

Once we boom year babies who know the truth about the bravery and courage of men like Douglas Bader die off, the whole of our history will be distorted and our country will lose all its history. Our youngsters will be taught that blacks lived here centuries ago, fought Hitler and were much braver than the ignorant, racist white people and that they should be ashamed of their ancestry. It makes my blood boil.

[@rangerwhite5165]

Bader may have been all those things, but he's still a hero. These guys had balls of steel.

[@robanderson473]

In an iron scrotum!

[@smogthehorse9409]

Bader open part of a college I attended, there was a plaque on the wall all about him. It was a sense of pride to the students and a history lesson to many. If this desecration of our history carries on, I can see a time when the young are totally brainwashed and people who put out content on places like this and those who comment will be the only people who know the truth.

[@oliverpearson1577]

I thought it was his legs that were replaced?

[@rangerwhite5165]

@@oliverpearson1577 Anything to get parking up front at Tesco.🤔😁

[@jameselliott8203]

Bader wasn't those things and don't believe the lying bustards makes me so mad

[@kenclark9743]

My pal, dead now these past two years, picked Bader up in his taxi from the Tyne Tees TV studios and said that he was a smashing bloke to talk to.

[@stephfoxwell4620]

Bet he was totally legless again.

[@paulmoore120]

Well said Simon.They gave their tomorrows so these idiots can spout rubbish without fear of persecution.

[@benbow7]

"I'm fighting so that Britain can be multicultural," said not one single British soldier in the Second World War.

[@Colin_Izer1111]

@@Old.Scores Yes!....General Patton was right!

[@Colin_Izer1111]

@@Old.Scores He is the most lied about man in all of history. I can see that now.

[@getslikedahhhbroo1851]

@@benbow7Britain is like 80% plus white dog lovers ffs 😂😂. R u mentally challenged. It’s only major cities.

[@LawrenceMclean]

@@Coupdetat. They fought for their homeland, they fought for the very thing that is now disparagingly refereed to as "white privilege".

[@nonoyorbusness]

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. John McCrae

[@MerryOlSoulGigglesmith]

Because the antiwhite / antibritish are never punished

[@johnturner1073]

Indeed, instead they all have jobs at the hated BBC.

[@andrewkemp480]

My dad was in the navy at the tender age of 16. He was involved in the D-Day landings. commanding a landing craft. And my parents met that unspoken useless person with no legs. Said he was a real wit and a perfect gentlemen. Cant we just tell all these people to f-off?

[@nicholasmorrill4711]

My father who was in the airforce & I think met Bader said he was a pretty unpleasant character, an egotist who treated the ground crew appaulingly. That said my father who also lost a leg admired his tenacity in wanting to keep on flying.

[@Eric-kn4yn]

Who knows but a certain wouldnt be a white minority ììn few decades SOS

[@Rid3thetig3r]

I think the time is long overdue for exactly that- Accusations of "Racism, sexism, transphobe, blah blah blah..." to be answered with a resounding "Will you just F... off!!"

[@sirmalus5153]

I know an "old boy" who served in the RAF after the war on Lincoln bombers, Shackletons, V-Force bombers etc. He remembers Bader as having a reputation for being a bit of a tyrant, told too him by people who had actually served with Bader during the war. I think the problem was that Bader didn't put up with fools much, if at all. So many people who dealt with him on a proffessional basis might have "come a cropper" when dealing with him on occasion, but others not in his 'command structure' or just meeting him in passing, would have experianced the side of the man who wasn't trying to prove anything too them, or get them to do their jobs properly as he saw it. As always, hero's have feet of clay, but in Baders case possibly legs of straw? Ask the people he met after the war, who have had limbs removed in war zones or accidents, if he was a 'good man'. He helped a lot of people come to terms with their loss when he didn't have too. A single facet of a man shouldn't be the ONLY character trait to remember him by surely.

[@nicholasmorrill4711]

@@sirmalus5153 My old man reckoned he was an egotist & he was in the airforce in Burma during the war & I suspect met him.He was well known to treat his ground crew like dirt & that is not the best way to get the best out of other people.

[@jamiedodger7743]

My great uncle Bob( my Nan’s brother) was in D Day he was blown up in a vehicle carrying six British soldiers he was left for dead knock out unconscious lying beside his dead comrades two days past and a group of American soldiers came across the truck believing they were all dead they were just about to move out when my uncle moved, they returned him to safety badly injured and almost dead he eventually went home after being in hospital for months. After the war he always had nightmares his skull damaged that much he had a metal plate in there he told me he did it for his country

[@JemimaPuddleduck777]

A true hero. Respect to all the military who fought to save this country. How sad it's been demolished by the enemy within ✌️

[@hugebartlett1884]

For the people of that time,but not for the trash of today.

[@GRD383]

I salute and bow to your uncle. And thank you

[@bennyandersen742]

That's quite an amazing story. I hope he will never be forgotten.

[@robbayliss3937]

I never knew Douglas Bader myself but I knew someone that met him. A young disabled lad that worked for me in the late seventies met him while attending St Loyes college in Exeter. He told me what an inspiration Douglas Bader was to disabled people back in the day when prejudice was much greater than it is now. I recall seeing the great man himself often making TV appearances championing the cause of the disabled. Doesn't sound like such a horrible man to me.

[@patkearney9320]

Even the IRA used Bader for debating in prison we regarded him as a Brit warrior and respected him because his courage gave hope to a people who needed hope. Its nasty that such men are not shown homage by there country. God hear all combat troops.

[@kenneths1585]

I remember Douglas Bader visiting my junior school to give us a talk on his exploits. What a courageous human being !. Even though he was disabled in an accident he continued to be a accomplished fighter pilot in WW2. I wonder what he would think about how our present government has given our country away to the rest of the world. The enemy is now our own government.

[@stephfoxwell4620]

At our Grammar school we used to joke about his tin legs and attempt sundry feats of athleticism stiff leggedly. But at heart it was a great tribute to a brave man,undaunted by severe disabilities. None of us had anything but respect for his awesome reputation

[@MarkJones-ji8fd]

It's not our government, it's a ZOG, has been since the 18th century

[@georgemather9082]

If they knew what would happen to their country they’d have laid down their weapons

[@EricaMTB]

This is what happens when you give freedom of religion to a religion that doesn't believe in a free country.

[@poempadgett4664]

And to a supremest faith that views people from outside of their religion and, oftentimes, their ethnicity, as well, as worthy of as much respect and consideration as the the dirt beneath their feet. Seemingly…

[@BggProductions]

Thank Napoleon. He gave *them* equal rights.

[@candorsspot2775]

You are referring to the cult of atheism right?

[@lutajucientropija6643]

@@candorsspot2775 no

[@DungeonKeeperLondonDungeonHire]

The saddest thing is that it wont be many more years before we will pass and we will be unable to speak up for and defend our parents amazing exploits during the second world war, there will be no one left to defend their good characters. The living link to them will be lost for ever.

[@notanumber1311]

Not if you educate your own kids, (Their grandchildren) and so on and so forth.

[@gbentley8176]

Education and truth will serve. Thankfully there are young Forces Cadets out there who will carry the flag and represent their schools and beyond. My school turned a page each day in the book off remembrance to a new name. The names go back to Tudor times.

[@stephfoxwell4620]

About twenty years ago I watched WW1 fade from living memory. At the time I thought WW2's time would come too. And now it has. Open season to sneer and mock and rewrite our past for trendy money driven greed.

[@Rosshannah1695]

I know this to be true, educating others is one thing, but this modern revisionism will be all that's left, along with an island of non Brits, with no connection or interest to the history of this island, or an interest beyond a 7th century child rapist and his perverted ideology. Post war governments have done more than Hitler could have dreamed of.

[@davidbrassington1727]

My grandfather was shot through the guts at Gallipoli. His brother was blown up on the Western front. We've still got the medals. I remember my grandad, don't think this was the country he was fighting for!

[@icytucan5776]

He was used as canon foder in pointless stalemate of war the end

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

@@icytucan5776 Surprisingly, when it comes to you I am reminded of Shakespeare - "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" - who would have thought a Bard from the 1500s could have predicted the complete nature of your being?

[@LawrenceMclean]

@@frankyyaggabot6222 The spirit and courage of those who participated in the wars is noble, the sad reality however, is that that the reasons that they thought they fought for, was a lie.

[@LawrenceMclean]

@@icytucan5776 I liked your reply, however, I disagree with your conclusion. Like the rest of World War 1, the mainstream historical narrative hides a great lie. The Gallipoli campaign did draw the vast bulk of the Ottoman army from their distant empire to defend their heartland (and butchered it); this facilitated the easy seizure of the Middle East and its energy resources. The result has been the reward of immense Dynastic wealth and power for those few that pursued the War. My point being, it was not pointless for those who made their wealth from it.

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

@@LawrenceMclean They fought against fascist expansionism and a racist genocide in World War II - that was not a lie (World War 1 was for more dubious causes). Both wars destroyed the wealth and populace of the British Empire and hastened it's decline. The individual you are replying to (lcytucan) is spamming the responses on this page with childish invectives intended to insult and provoke - I wouldn't waste your time on him as inarticulate quips seems to be the extent of his capabilities.

[@marksmith4862]

My father spent his teenage years in an Anderson shelter in the bottom of his mother's garden in Bliston near Wolverhampton and would often tell me he spent 14 years perpetually hungry due to rationing. Despite this, and towards the end of his life, he often wondered if this country would have been a better place if our Austrian painter had been victorious!

[@benbow7]

It's now clear that it certainly would have been.

[@WillyEckaslike]

what did the P do apart from remove from power from people who are oppressing you today..how ironic ....the rest of it was the using the west to get it back..same is happening today all over the ME

[@NOTODIVERSITY123]

Never forget 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 our heroes..

[@patkearney9320]

As a Paddy who had problems with Brit military I would never disrespect any soldier, Europe owes such men every thing it's horrible how can this happen. God bless all combat troops.

[@robertduncan7618]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿I fully respect our veterans, and honour the fallen.

[@Dude0000]

Dude, love the monkeys in your name. 🐵🐒😂

[@patkearney9320]

@@Dude0000 What does having monkeys in your name mean?

[@Clodhopping]

There are enough contemporary accounts of Bader being fairly insufferable... However, he wasn't there to charm the enemy - his duty was to beat them. He was feisty, energetic and keen to prove that even with two tin legs, he was better then most able-bodied men.

[@WillyEckaslike]

the real anemy were the people financing Rvelt and Church to make war..cant tell u they were cause that would be AS

[@evileyes4070]

Outrageous . None of the Brylcreem Boys would of did the duty if could see the mother land today

[@robertduncan7618]

D Day is Special and the participants alive or passed away have my total respect 🇬🇧 And anyone who doesn’t can go to hell.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

[@talbenavraham1478]

Well said.

[@robanderson473]

Yep and buggery too!

[@garethwilliams976]

Sadly we expect our heroes to be nice guys and hide their only too human flaws - perhaps we need to?

[@troomoozic3858]

Hear hear 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@lewisdean22]

It would be very interesting to see a poll regarding the possibility of men and women in this country willing to fight for it. Certain groups I believe would be very silent or get on a plane to another country.

[@Havoc5429]

And bloody good riddance to them

[@MyNextShotWontMiss]

This is why people say mockingly "At least we're not speaking German now".

[@Me-hv9fk]

True. It will soon be Arabic and Chinese....

[@Eric-kn4yn]

​@@Me-hv9fk if that lot dont.kick you out of GB

[@stephfoxwell4620]

Just driving German.

[@rogershore3128]

If i was a grandchild of these heroes I would be taking serious legal action against the specific companies and people slagging them off...

[@joelc9439]

Hahaha, the legal action would lead nowhere.

[@rogershore3128]

@@joelc9439 it would depend what the people are saying....

[@jonbon8598]

The Poles were used as dupes , encouraged by us , started atrocities on ethnic Germans, the stupid and brutal Poles got they deserved,

[@alanknight8439]

A few years ago I met Douglas Bader at a fete in Billericay. He was a charming modest man, and very charismatic.

[@stephfoxwell4620]

A few? He died 41 years ago.

[@alanknight8439]

@@stephfoxwell4620 It was at a fete at the Billericay burns unit in the late 1970s. I'm 68.

[@whiskeymonk4085]

Asking you all to remember my grandfather on this day with gratitude. He was an original member of "The Band of Brothers". He dropped behind Nazi lines and fought his heart out for the entire war. Captured in Holland and escaped. Joined up with Russian allies and returned to service until the conclusion of the worldwide conflict. He was a lieutenant and and officer. The kindest man I've ever known. RIP James Kenneth Davis. I'm forever grateful for your sacrifice and love.

[@doloresaquines1529]

Remembering him. ⭐

[@whiskeymonk4085]

@@m_c_squared Well, it made him a strong man. But you might be right. The small hats started every war we've seen in our lives. The man with the funny mustache got addicted to a cocktail of heavy duty drugs and royally screwed up. Never should have invaded Russia.

[@stephfoxwell4620]

He would have met my grandparents. They ran the village bakery in Devon adjacent to Upottery US airbase from where Easy Company departed for D Day. When the landings were delayed by the weather grandad took cider as well as bread and cheese to the nervous young men waiting, lined along the lanes and hedgerows. Many US airmen became family friends. I still have letters written during the Battle of the Bulge to my grandparents from US soldiers.

[@whiskeymonk4085]

@@stephfoxwell4620 Fantastic!

[@jonhinch]

Whatever the politicians have done since I totally respect out brave service-people and civilians .

[@Mossyz.]

Forever in our hearts and THANK You I will remember .

[@susanwestern6434]

The only coverage of the commemoration was on Sky KZbin channel. There were two moving speeches from a British navy veteran 97, and an American machine gunner 98. Absolute heroes.

[@frankielov]

People who gave up their lives for nothing,

[@jameselliott8203]

They did for Britain, as it truly meant something back them. we fought the fascists on the right now they are on the left .

[@Occident.]

​@@jameselliott8203 😂😂😂

[@jontwest]

@@jameselliott8203 Unfortunately they were tricked into attacking & killing others for globalism

[@MarkHarvey-uh8oc]

Amen to that, Simon. When the publicly funded broadcasting propaganda arm of the government described the Dambusters raid on the 80th anniversary of the raid in May as "infamous".

[@Kurt_Steiner]

The BBC a shower of racist shit always against the white man...

[@icytucan5776]

You guys sure worshipped and weird obsession with ww2. Which is overrated.

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

@@icytucan5776 It wasn't a film Deary!

[@icytucan5776]

@@frankyyaggabot6222 that's because I'm not talking about a film deary

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

@@icytucan5776 Got to wonder about your character - you spew denigrating nonsense all over the place looking for attention and like your own comments. Are you a poor lonely boy desperate for attention who is so embittered that he pulls the wings off butterflies?

[@Zoro007]

These guy's gave up their lives without a thought for themselves. Their courage and service is second to none and I for one will always be grateful and respectful for all they gave and unfortunately for their many losses. They sadly would no doubt be bemused by today's attitude towards their service for this country and the ignorance that now prevails. My total admiration to all the Force's, god bless you all !!!

[@Occident.]

Most didn't have a clue why they were fighting. My Grandfather was there, but didn't want to be. He had joined the Army in 1926 to get a feed and clothes on his back, as he was blacklisted from the mines for organising strikes. By 1939 he was a reservist. He was at Dunkirk and Normandy, and wounded in Germany in early 45.

[@stephfoxwell4620]

Bader died in 1982. He was notoriously very rude to the Batman who attended him in Colditz. Even snubbing him in the street after the War when being saluted.

[@LetsAllDrinkToTheDeathOfAClown]

It's tragic that they literally fought for the world that we live in today.

[@bushwhackeddos.2703]

If this is winning I’d hate to see losing.

[@mci6830]

Take a look at Germany.

[@jonbon8598]

Brilliant that's a paraphrase of Voltaire 💗🤩😍👋

[@ChiefWizard666]

Back in the early 70's I was involved with the C of E youth Club in my village and we took part in an inter club competition. We were fortunate enough to be the winners and the guest of honour, presenting the prize, was Douglas Bader. As the leaders of the winning youth club we were introduced to him. We all chatted for about 10-15 minutes and he was a most courteous and pleasant fellow, albeit rather shorter than my 6'1"!

[@tarquin4592]

Your final sentence is undoubtedly shared by the majority of the country still Simon.

[@rogerpage9682]

another good video. Douglas Bader a name and face i remember from the 1960s. probably the decade when things began to go wrong.

[@TheVideoLounge]

And now the war is on our history and culture.

[@jonbon8598]

The Frankfurt school and their allied think tanks, have done a hard takedown on our society, drag queens story in schools, that's got the fingerprints of the Frankfurt school all over it, in USA a myriad of Khazarian think tanks spend their time, working on strategies for destroying Christianity and society in general, they are batshit f🤮💸 king crazy 👹💰🤮💸

[@jp80a68]

I for one won't forget their sacrifice, I am glad my father and FIL are not here to see this, they were both born in 23, and in 1941 ,called up to be a field gunner and a partrooper. What these people fail to realise, is that witout them and millions like Douglas Bader, they would no freedom to say any of this.

[@Eric-kn4yn]

Theres no freedom now you have to accept alien migration. Complain your racist and soon criminal

[@WillyEckaslike]

they were sacrificed alright by the bankerJ who instigated it

[@jglover4444]

Don't ever forget the constant chronic pain he put up with every day and with every step. His tin legs didn't fit as well as modern prosthetics and he didn't have access to pain killers when he was a POW. We would all be grumpy and short tempered a lot of the time!!! He once beat someone at a round of golf, and the mans excuse was that he had a problem with a pain in his leg recently, hence the poor round. Bader had apparently replied " it must be terrible to have a pain in your leg"

[@jonathanboyle6548]

When will we start to REQUIRE the respect they deserve? From our “leaders” first.

[@JustDaniel6764]

Never

[@Me-hv9fk]

Not require. DEMAND!!

[@coventrypunx1014]

Weirdly requesting what is expected today means you will be called far right or a nazi .

[@jonathanboyle6548]

@@coventrypunx1014 Very true. Our language is now Doublespeak.

[@GMN360]

I couldn’t agree more. The lack of respect, knowledge and human emotion is horrifying. My father and the majority of men who fought to save our freedom rarely talked about their experiences. As I get older I wonder where and how they hot the courage to do what they did to protect us.

[@cameronrobson7309]

My father did talk (aided by Glenfiddich) and the sacrifices were truly horrible.

[@icytucan5776]

As yes Brits going in Iraq for freedom 😂😂😂😂

[@simonparkinson7078]

Probably true to some extent but as usual, judged by today’s standards. Don’t these critics understand the world was very different back then. Anyway, however much you deplore the man’s character he was just the kind of man you need when the shooting starts. A true hero.

[@geordie1032]

I totally agree with you, Simon. This is an absolute disgrace and should be countermanded by our government

[@TimmsMJ]

They are, after all, supposed to be our Leaders???

[@covidenslavement8918]

The British government hates British people , wake up .

[@mallard4495]

This is yet another example of how anti-British our government is. We really must vote properly next time, or all will be soon lost.

[@icytucan5776]

What a shock. I feel bad for Berlin citizens in 1945

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

@@icytucan5776 Surprisingly, when it comes to you I am reminded of Shakespeare - "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" - who would have thought a Bard from the 1500s could have predicted the complete nature of your being?

[@alliedfroth]

When your country is attacked you should stay & fight & not run away to another country & leave your wife & kids behind.

[@Buster_Piles]

Well of course that's a "white, colonialist" attitude. Apparently nowadays it's virtuous to get your trainers on and F off to a better place with free hotel rooms and benefits, screw the women & kids.

[@Daisy-tl2lh]

just this morning I passed the Little Common Bexhill War Memorial set on a roundabout surrounded by moving traffic oblivious to the significance of today's date a small gathering no more than ten people including the Vicar and a Standard Bearer paying a D Day tribute to our WW2 Veterans ...

[@RubyMarkLindMilly]

Well said on all fronts

[@edoak1120]

Well said, Simon. I despair for what our country has become.

[@edoak1120]

@Richard Temple What the hell are you on about. Britain advanced the world with the Industrial Revelution and Colonisation that Africa and many other parts of the world from the stone age into the modern world. Our country invented modernity.

[@thatsjustprime8096]

@Richard Temple Oh, you odious little twa*.

[@fraggit]

@@edoak1120 Don't bother, he's just a troll with a disgusting, inadequate, backward ideology.

[@noelward8047]

@Richard Temple Oh dear. Made yourself look a little silly there.

[@Lt.GonvilleBromhead]

@Richard Temple Jews are definitely not our identical twin brothers.

[@saggypaw]

Learning that douglas barder was horrible and a monster, makes you realise why he was so driven. What a guy.

[@jameselliott8203]

Don't accept that as we don't know question everything mate .

[@nicholasmorrill4711]

@@jameselliott8203 My father who was in the airforce & I think met Bader said he was a pretty unpleasant character, an egotist who treated the ground crew appaulingly. That said I don't think some auther who was probably nowhere near the war at the time & is just trying to make a name for himself should do so at someone elses expence who clearly was a war hero.

[@bingbong7316]

​@@nicholasmorrill4711 On the other side of the coin, when 242 Squadron formed but had no spares for their Hurricanes, he declared it non-operational til spares arrived - by the truckload. He didn't ask the ground crew to make do (like cannibalising good aircraft).

[@nicholasmorrill4711]

@@bingbong7316 You don't cannibalize good aircraft,you take bits off old ones or crashed ones......That's what my old man did in the Burmese jungle.

[@vaunmalone3064]

May all the heroes Rest in Peace.

[@lavrentizapadni747]

Amen.

[@harry.flashman]

Amen.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

No more brother wars 🙏

[@vaunmalone3064]

@@evolassunglasses4673 too right 😔

[@harry.flashman]

@@evolassunglasses4673 Amen to that too mr sunglasses

[@nylasharper1788]

To those of us who had fathers, brothers, uncles, grandfather's who didn't make it back home, we owe a debt of gratitude to every single one of them for their ultimate sacrifice, that we may sit here today and debate 'what is a woman, and lets-hate-on-white-men. Absolutely disgraceful waste of not just human, but FAMILIES lives imo.

[@johnsmithers8913]

In Hindsight, those young men should have hugged their German brothers and headed back to conquer Britain and save the Western world. But hindsight is 20/20.

[@theenglishman8668]

@@johnsmithers8913 🎯 The war mongers are usually the real enemy.

[@davesmith6002]

They'd rather tell us to " celebrate the windrush " instead.

[@therainbowgulag.]

And yet the SHEEPLES will still vote Consocialist and Liebour

[@timpatrick2109]

Time to do something. The clock is ticking.

[@AlmostAeroGauge]

Our warriors fought on the wrong side.

[@jontwest]

Well said. To my shame I didn't know this until recently - how we've been criminally lied to

[@MadDogSurvival]

My grandfather used to say “they couldn’t beat us with bombs and bullets but they would with money and politics”

[@Occident.]

Your grandfather sounds like a splendid noticer. How right he was

[@notanumber1311]

The first "they" being different to the second "they"

[@MadDogSurvival]

Not if you had a shyt education like me 😂

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

Wise man!

[@ECPBigD]

Hence the morphing of the EEC into the EU with Fabian hand(s)-on the tiller.

[@paulyoung4422]

That's Nothing, Group Captain Ali Bongo, lost both his Arms and Legs. He flew without a Head and Won the Battle of Britain.

[@firstknight6057]

Shut up you idiot

[@talbenavraham1478]

LOL!.

[@Simon_Hawkshaw]

It's an amazing anniversary of an incredible turning point of the war. Unfortunately, the further away we move in time from the event, the more diluted, twisted, and dystopian the 'memory', or written 'recollections' of those brave and committed men will become. We, 'the West', need to be educated and learn from the people of Ooverbeck and the Netherlands as to how to honour and revere the memory of these brave men. The spoilt and entitled youth of today will never understand or know the tribulations of that time, all thanks to the endeavours of those incredible soldiers, but will be told distorted tales to vilify the history of that time.

[@arnijulian6241]

Don't throw me in with the youth & I had my 5th stab attempt against me by 14 for being White in London. I'm honestly not sure how I am alive? You want to know why my youth are so ''awful''? Look no further then there neglected arrogant lazy parent's that gave their uncared children to so educators-socialist ideologs prdators. My great grand father, grand father & father all killed socialists from the nationalist-socialist/NSDAP to the international socialist/communists. You Simon & the daft lot after the silent & great generation did nothing for the children being fvck ups that grew fat from your elders labours & works in my honest opinion just nocking out kids you never raised but had dragged up by government sanctioned indoctrination aka public schooling. Would any non indoctrinated child have his block & tackle hacked off in a so called affirming operation? I saved who I could of my youth but they were broken mind & soul unlike myself! My generation has lowest prospect in history with the highest suicide rate among males in history if curious. They will never own a Home as the gold standard was dropped in 1971 by a trust system in the currency being a Austrian socialist policy 1st implement in 1930's Germany so ever property is inflated. Women of my generation were indoctrinated to misandry disguised as feminism which if the sex swapped to masculinism would be seen in a contrasting light. I have friends that considered death preferable to living so they are not among the living aa being blamed by every group for the worlds problems wears thin. I'm broken many of my friends dead before 30 & the rest turned loopy by ideologs that your generation invited from the east that I will likely have to deal with at some point. My brother crippled, myself burnt & my face scarred with failing health. My brother doesn't value his own life! I spent over half year coughing up blood in the sink in 2020 after losing my fabrication job from my failed health while everyone played horde the bog roll. My lungs are fvcked with a resting heart beat of 128 I shouldn't drink a hot beverage as in tea/coffee much less fornicate. I didn't see a doctor till the late 1/2 of 2021 & they have done nothing! Myself like my brother couldn't care if the world burned as we ran out of the ability to care long ago! I was an Engineer & Fabricator but my health won't permit me to my profession & everyone keeps telling me to get another job as ''you have to have a job''. I couldn't even shag & not even 30 yet I should work for a society that despises me? I'm a stranger in my own land of England & I know it! If you knew my Great grand father last words & he fought in north Africa & Sicily! Like my elders that did far more then you will, I owe this nation & the west nothing! i only owe loyalty to my troop/family & the rest with few exception can go die in a ditch for all I care. Why fight for something you lot let be sold by the £ & $ long ago to the east? "The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope."-Karl Marx's. I hate socialists the gormless like yourself keep putting proof to these scums words.

[@WillyEckaslike]

no mate..never believe anything the main stream tells you

[@arnijulian6241]

@@WillyEckaslike Indeed as main media, government as well as so called educator fvcked the west up more then any while the older generation sat on their Aris!

[@albert21able]

My father fought in WW2, After the Germans surrendered, he served on in Hamburg as Army of occupation, He said to me those Germans are the same as us, you can not tell us apart until they speak, and after a while you pick the language up, He had the utmost respect for the German soldiers and civilians.

[@edenbreckhouse]

You mean those soldiers and civilians who supported a regime that killed millions? He respected those people?

[@angelagardner5230]

Its our cousin language and rasy to learn

[@Occident.]

Pity our political leaders at the time didn't feel the same way as your Father. But they were in thrall to the money power, and the money power wanted war with Germany.

[@quintrankid8045]

@@Occident. Do you think we'd all be better off if we didn't have money? And what would we use instead?

[@davidwhite4874]

@@quintrankid8045 Oh dear..........

[@williamtell6750]

"It sometimes makes me wonder why our fathers bothered defeating the Germans at all." Here, Mr Webb may be on to something.

[@Floortile]

It’s a rare occasion when I will agree with you but, on the point you make about Douglas Bader, I do. Bader was a man - a hero - of his time and age, no more of a snob than Winston Churchill and others of that generation and social background; times and mores may have changed, but that doesn’t mean Bader’s reputation as a great man should.

[@thewayoftheinterceptingfis4194]

There has to be a straw that breaks the camels back

[@Sameoldfitup]

They gave their lives for nothing. We fought the wrong people

[@quintrankid8045]

Who should we have fought?

[@Sameoldfitup]

@@quintrankid8045 not the German's love

[@Occident.]

Churchill was in thrall to the money power, who had declared war on Germany in 1933. Most British didn't have a clue what we were fighting for. Poor saps obeyed orders. Just like the mugs in Iraq and Afghanistan recently. Your average Squadie is a numpty.

[@quintrankid8045]

@@Sameoldfitup Why do you think we shouldn't have fought the Nazis?

[@Sameoldfitup]

@@quintrankid8045 stupid question

[@woz7379]

Why don’t we cut to the chase and accuse Jesus of being a racist then surely we’ve been through the lefties list.🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@BggProductions]

Wait until they read Mathew 15: 21-24

[@garethwilliams976]

A racist Jew!

[@scotty5717]

Their memory and sacrifice will NEVER be forgotten by us 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@ooshta]

Or us 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[@duckman5642]

We shall never nevet forget 100%Great reply 👍

[@mark314158]

But after we are dead...

[@MrClean3381]

Exactly! that is the aim.. it's alright US remembering it but time flies, and before long we will be gone! We will be left with a young generation that has been brainwashed to despise our history and everything we accomplished. Will turn out to be all for nothing

[@patkearney9320]

History will be kind to our heroes time has a way of blowing the cobwebs of lies away, and reveling truths.

[@6lu5ky86]

Welcome to 1984 ladies and gentlemen. Please thank your servicemen from today and yesteryear. We're starting to devolve into a western society that hardly deserves those sacrifices. My 90 year old grandfather was in the Air Force and he's thanked for his service daily. I hang out with him a lot, going to Home Depot and the like. I pray that we don't run into a person willing to berate him in public simply for representing his service on his cap. 🙏

[@congresssux9766]

What sacrifices?!? Veterans like your grandfather deserve respect, but they weren’t fighting for our freedom. They were misinformed, and modern day western society is proof, we defeated nothing in WWII. We never even fought against the TRUE enemy.

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

My Grandad also served in the Air Force (and had the honour of hosting Bader once). He wouldn't need two legs to be better than this current generation of mongrels ... he'd need two fingers!

[@icytucan5776]

Yes they have and will. People get mocked all the time and just because you serve in overrated war doesn't mean you deserve respect from everyone

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

@@icytucan5776 Surprisingly, when it comes to you I am reminded of Shakespeare - "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" - who would have thought a Bard from the 1500s could have predicted the complete nature of your being?

[@stephfoxwell4620]

Korean War? My uncle served in Korea with the British army.

[@derekmcmanus8615]

Our war heros would shudder in regret if they saw the absolute state of the country nowadays

[@mnbv990]

agreed.

[@DavidSmith-op8ix]

Correct absolutely correct.

[@jamesbutler5273]

My father was at Dunkirk and fought in North Africa and Italy the country they came home to is not the country we have now

[@RaymondWilliams-uu1ns]

Given away by greedy politicians. The GDP figures are not the Holy Grail to measure success. A Country whose citizens share a common culture, history and is free from tyranny is. Our Grandfathers fought for that and won. Only for the soft white liberals politicians to betray them and their children decades later.

[@benbow7]

"We fought the wrong enemy." (General George S Patton shortly before he was murdered)

[@Time-traveller777]

What some of those pilots did were legendary and should be highly honoured. This is a scandel.

[@LetsAllDrinkToTheDeathOfAClown]

Yes, bombing virtually defenseless cities full of hundreds of thousands of people and endless irreplaceable Medieval buildings and cathedrals was such a noble feat...

[@davidpalin1790]

My late mother who lived through world war 2 said before she died that she wished Germany had prevailed in the war😢

[@garethwilliams976]

Was she Jewish?

[@davidpalin1790]

@@garethwilliams976 no

[@biggest23]

@@garethwilliams976 ….Why would a dewish person say that, when the blood drenched Soviet Union, which was a dewish construct, from inception to murderous completion, was their portion of a victory, against a Europe they hate.

[@alexbetts8291]

My grandpa went over on day 3 which was the 8th and waded through the mincemeat of his brother's , he survived and i owe my life for this fact ,. My other grandfather came back form india and helped to liberate places like belsan and he survived this to which i owe my existence ,, i urinate on the mats of the ungrateful immigrant scourge

[@Occident.]

Must have been a million British soldiers at Belsen, according to all the posts iv read of.... "oh my Grandfather liberated Belsen, oooh the horror, the birds still don't sing there you know"..... 😏I call BS!

[@alexbetts8291]

@@Occident. Well you certainly were not there and i shit on your soul for being such a muggy prick

[@wasp6594]

My father was a bomber pilot during the war. I have no idea how many missions he flew over Germany because, like many of his generation, he never spoke about it. Although he was once asked by a German, in a bar in Germany, if he had ever been to Germany before. He replied, "No but I've flown over it a few times." I have now doubt there are many in the current generation today who would regard my father and his fellow aircrews as war criminals. Not once do they stop to consider that if it was not for brave men, like my father and the many thousands like him, they would not be free to express their opinions of them. I also served in the armed forces but when I see what the country has become and the types of the various people who inhabit it, regardless of race, colour and creed and also the quality of the political classes, I sometimes wonder if I would be willing to fight for them. Somehow, I don't think I would. Yet, when I look at the D Day veterans, now sadly declining in number, and also all the others who survived the war, I am reminded that it is because of them I never had to fight in the kind of war they fought in, or experience what they did, even though I was in the military for a large part of my life.

[@Occident.]

Wonder how many Wyt children your Father burned alive with his indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas?

[@notanumber1311]

Do you realise the last paragraph of your comment is almost paraphrasing a chapter from Mein Kampf?

[@garethwilliams976]

So sad and so wrong. This is still a wonderful country to live in - re ignite your pride.

[@notanumber1311]

@@garethwilliams976 wonderfull? As in: I wonder where all the industry has gone. I wonder where the community spirit has gone. I wonder where the local court and police station and ambulance station have gone. I wonder why my work hours have doubled yet my lifestyle is in decline. i wonder why my council tax rises year on year when the services are cut year on year. I wonder what they are indoctrinating my kids into believing at school instead of teaching them the three R's. I wonder what my neighbours are talking about in that foreign language? Etc. Etc. Wonderfull country

[@frankreynolds4547]

Your father was a brave man that did his duty as you would have done if called upon and you know that. It's the only country we got unless we chose to become immigrants in another! I'm afraid this guy gets off on being controversial at best. But what really gets my goat is this isn't the first time he's traded on dead men's Glory! The postwar German people have had to live with the shame of the sins of their fathers. You can and your children can wear his medals with pride. God bless um all!

[@johnw574]

A few years ago I was a paying Labour member. Now I passionately loathe the progressive.

[@duckman5642]

Well done 👌

[@harry.flashman]

lab/con was different before.

[@notrut]

Lee Rigby was hardly mentioned last month too ... 10 years after his heinous murder by Jihadis.

[@normansidey5258]

It’s easier I suppose to denigrate some who is dead, they can’t defend themselves. How do these writers know he was allegedly racist, or snobbish? Purely on hearsay, or from someone who perhaps had a grudge against Bader for some imagined slight, or what passes as a micro aggression theses days. There was a class system in most pow camps, mainly initiated by the enemy who segregated officers from NCO’s and Other ranks. Also snobbishness may be being confused with the rank system which every military force employs!

[@politicas3361]

Honour the fallen. The greatest generation The glorious dead!

[@Caitgreenham]

They were not the greatest generation they called themselves that. This so-called greatest generation sold us all downriver because nationalism evil and bad and then raise the most entitled generation the baby boomers.

[@harry.flashman]

Amen.

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

I read Douglas Bader's biography in high school and later saw the movie Reach for the Sky. What a remarkable man and hero. Any person who denegrates Bader among all the other men who served in the war is a ignorant twit. There is a documentary film clip showing Bader lifting his artificial limbs to get into his Spitfire. As soon as I saw that piece of film back in the day I knew it was Douglas Bader. I salute you Sir.

[@ShanghaiRooster]

Bader himself seems to have been amused by the portrayal of him by Kenneth Moore in 'Reach For The Sky' which applied a hefty dollop of vaseline to his character. He was not a man afraid of expressing his opinions in a forthright and blunt manner. To blandly brand him a racist just reveals the lack of ability of current writers to have insight into the nuances of the character of a man who could be described as 'difficult'. When he was young, Bader was not perhaps a nice person. Whilst still at school he took up shooting an air rifle, once using it to shoot a local lady through her window as she was about to enter her bath. Later, during a discussion about the pain which a pellet could inflict, he shot his uncle 'Derick' (real name Frederick) in the shoulder at point blank range. Those traits however, also lent him the determination to overcome the loss of his legs in an accident, which was the result of a self-inflicted folly in disobeying orders not to perform aerial stunts at low level.

[@davidgrieve7854]

They were the best generation -did it for their friends and country -my Dad was a POW for 5 yrs -came back with respect for the ordinary Germans

[@jonbon8598]

The Windrush people were the greatest generation, we owe our todays and tomorrows, to them, the King and Queen should abdicate,let Baroness Doreen Lawrence rule as Empress 👹💰💸🤮

[@user-wq9de7gj9d]

Mr Webb. If I could go back in time to 1940 I would tell Sir Winston Churchill not to bother fighting fascism as all his great work would come to nothing as Britain degenerates into a namby pamby society of hurt feelings. God help us if this generation is called on to defend democracy. Keep up your great work. You are a breath of fresh air in this era of Wokism.

[@jeremyboughtono2]

Not fighting Germany would have led to Germany dominating Europe and beating the USSR after that they would have turned on us and destroyed us.

[@Occident.]

In 1940 the term "fighting Fascism" was never used. The general term according to my father was "Gerry"."Gerry has invaded France, Gerry is doing this, Gerry is doing that" etc. Later the ridiculous Churchill started using the word "Nartzees". Obviously at the behest of his string pullers. But according to the masses we were fighting "Gerry and the eyeties".

[@quintrankid8045]

@@Occident. Why is it ridiculous to call National Socialists Nazis?

[@Caitgreenham]

Winston Churchill was an absolute fraud, and a warmonger and a drunk. He was so drunk during world war II couldn't even do his own speeches, it was the voice actor from Winnie the Pooh.

[@normansidey5258]

@@Occident. I do believe you mean Jerry, possibly derived from the colloquial name for a chamber pot, which the German steel helmet resembled, I also think your view of history me be somewhat distorted, perhaps if you widen your sources of information by reading a little more you may become more enlightened.

[@GRD383]

When I think of those brave men, well not much more than boys really, and especially because I have two fine sons, it breaks my heart when I know so well that those gallant lads and many thousands of others like them, gave up their lives in a wave of a hand for what now passes as humanity and for what is happening here in GB especially. Shame on those pitiful people who have ANY criticism of our precious heroes.

[@johngaltman]

Yup, I think General Patton said it best when he said, "We may have been fighting the wrong enemy all along."

[@g7eit]

Real heroes, if they were around today we wouldn’t have woke crap. God bless ‘‘em.

[@brucewayne5672]

I am totally pissed off at these people, destroying everything that I cherish about the WEST There is a useful Canadian dysphanism that I learned many years ago after assimilating myself into Canadian culture; " shot and pissed on, but not necessarily in that order". And I repeat that is a dysphanism

[@garethwilliams976]

You do not necessarily make sense but you can certainly spell!

[@brucewayne5672]

@@garethwilliams976 hey I'm not perfect neither is my BlackBerry.

[@thescarletpumpernel3305]

given that the slippery slope that has led up to this sad impasse began almost immediately following the war, I fear that you are right about the possibility of it being better that these men had never fought and died at all.

[@wilfredwayne7139]

I respect those involved in ww2 alot more than I respect anyone born these days that's for sure.

[@icytucan5776]

Ah yeah those current military service are nothing compared to men in ww2. Get a life 😊

[@stephfoxwell4620]

Yes. That generation raised; in the shadow of WW1, with Victorian principles and discipline had a certain understated dignity. A self effacing ,uncomplaining loyalty and bravery.

[@harry.flashman]

Far from nowadays.

[@wilfredwayne7139]

@@stephfoxwell4620 people these days think being satanic is trendy and having values is racist.

[@jeremykille4689]

My uncle was a d day veteran, he died shortly after recovering from covid, he was 96. During one of the last conversations I had with him he said he was very worried about what was happening in America. He was no fool. Most right thinking people can't understand what is happening to the west. I blame the Internet giving immediate access for fringe groups to come together to plot and bully.

[@quintrankid8045]

What do you think is happening to the West?

[@jeremykille4689]

@@quintrankid8045 thanks for your reply, in a nutshell, the lunatics have taken over asylum.

[@nicholasmorrill4711]

@@jeremykille4689 The people in charge are frit of being called racists. 🙂

[@jeremykille4689]

@@nicholasmorrill4711 true.

[@eireamhain4925]

As a great man said if they could have forseen Britain today they wouldn't have went forty yards up the beaches.

[@samlancaster1277]

What an absolute disgrace. Thomas Cromwell would have had this chap in The Tower for interrogation , the better his manners might become after 6 months solitary ! God bless the faithful Remnant of England.

[@normangoldstuck8107]

Don't leave out the Canadians who stormed Juno beach.

[@Occident.]

Wonder if they were among the 4 Canadian Soldiers who raped a 16 year old German girl in Western Germany in the summer of 1945, who had fled the East to escape such outrages. She married a Newcastle man, and became best friends with my mum in the early 1950s whom she related the Rape incident too.

[@talbenavraham1478]

​@Westman. So, the actions of a few remove the heroism of the many.?

[@ronnietexan]

@@Occident. I wonder if they were among the many, British, American, Canadian, Russian, Italian, Indian, Japanese, French, Belgium, Dutch, Swedish, German, Irish, Norwegian, South African, Australian, New Zealanders, and many many more from many more countries who did not do anything like that?

[@georgehetty7857]

Indeed, there are many stories regarding what lengths the women of occupied Europe would go to for food, clothing and soap etc. Interestingly your account is only a month old🤡

[@Occident.]

​@@ronnietexan The Soviets were mass Rapist's. Murderers and Pmunders too. As for you Yankees, my Father said they were notorious for hanging around school gates, trying to get acquainted with under age girls. IE sex pests. They done their share of raping in Europe too.

[@andyetheridge]

My mothers dad was at Dunkirk and my fathers dad was at Arnhem. Both my Grandfathers survived but his brother my great uncle Frank Ford was a Wellington Bomber crew member that was shot down over Nijmagen in the Netherlands. The average age of the crew was 24 and 2 years ago my parents located all the crews graves at the Jonkerbos war cemetery. Feats not just theirs but all the other brave souls who sacrificed so much makes me feel very proud of our families history!

[@gb3007]

My gt uncle was 2nd Division at Dunkirk, 1st bn Royal Berkshires, died in Burma in 1945. My gt grandfathers ship HMS Whitshed completed 6 trips to Dunkirk and two to Bolougne. He was also patrolling the channel against e-boats on D-Day.

[@bigbelly5098]

As each day passes, I can`t help thinking we fought the wrong side.

[@charlespatterson6037]

On the recent June 4th, my father would have been 107. I cannot speak for others, though I feel I may speak for my father. It was a fight for his generation and future generations, of freedom. He wold be disgusted, with what we have. Particularly disgusted with what is coming.

[@orvillefindley8117]

D say is now the anniversary of the dinghy landing ! 🙄

[@gillps5130]

I do indeed remember 'Reach for the Sky' and was taken to see it when quite small. Young as I was I understood that Bader's heroism and bravery in overcoming personal as well as enemy obstacles was something very special and I was very affected by it. The music helped of course. Very stirring stuff. Respect and remembrance being tossed away by these gutless goons makes me angry. They are leaving us with nothing. They will take nothing from me but they are leaving the next generation empty.

[@sircxx8621]

I wonder how many of us would have preferred living in those times?

[@Occident.]

They didn't have a clue they were fighting for the money power.

[@quintrankid8045]

Why don't you tell us what the Nazis and Soviets were fighting for?

[@lutajucientropija6643]

@@quintrankid8045 the Germans were fighting for Germany, and the Soviets were fighting for the kremlin and Stalin, it’s quite simply.

[@quintrankid8045]

@@lutajucientropija6643 Then what were people in UK, the US, and other Allied countries, fighting for?

[@Occident.]

​@@quintrankid8045 The Germans were fighting for self determination and freedom from the usurers. The Soviets were fighting, because after invading Lithuania, Latvia Estonia Poland Finland and Beserabia, they were planning on invading Germany in July 1941. German agents got wind of it, and Germany launched a pre-emptive strike. Operation Barbarossa. Purely defensive measure.

[@Occident.]

​@@quintrankid8045 The parasite money power.

[@doughill1945]

I have always regarded Bader as a Hero. He also did wonderful work for the disabled. I was sad to read his treatment of his Scottish orderly in Colditz left a lot to be desired.

[@matthewmcmahon8980]

Zero appreciation for changing circumstances which determine EVERYTHING including the steps people took, their outward opinions, and the sacrifice they endured to allow the unworthy to breathe at this moment.

[@litahughes2213]

It is hard to believe this country could be any worse than it is now if they had won the war.

[@paulhwbooth]

And Canadians...

[@musashidanmcgrath]

My grandfather was on one of the last truck convoys to escape from Dunkirk. He then spent 3 years in the North African campaign. These men(most of them were only young lads) were an absolutely incredible generation of heroes. You could barely get a 30 year old these days who could operate a washing machine in their mother's basement, nevermind a Spitfire or a Sherman. Modern Europe is the weakest it's ever been in history.