SAS on trial

[WBA1955]

We expect the likes of the SAS to take on terrible risk and do the horrible and dirty stuff so that we can lead a simple life and in many cases, we leave these lads with terrible mental baggage to carry for life.

Many special forces operatives die early from alcohol and drug addiction and from suicide.

This is all okay until the time when those with a gentile life, protected by these types, decides to start digging for dirt.

I’m waiting for the day our PM feels the necessity to apologise to Germany for having the audacity to stand up to them in two World Wars.

I foresee a time, not too far ahead, where our kids and grandchildren will no longer be taught about either of the World Wars and if either are mentioned, our “error and deep disgrace” at having participated will be propagated.

History is being rewritten or cancelled right before our very eyes, those of 20 and under now only have a relative few of us left to talk to them about what our grandparents and great grandparents went through.

I’m dreading conversations with my 6 year old grandchildren 5 or 6 years from now, I think it’s going to be difficult to navigate all the guff they get forced down their throats these days.

Having said that, I do admire my grandson Leo who’s only 6 later this month.

He goes to a school that used to be a Catholic school and still strongly pushes religion.

He told his mum a couple of weeks ago that they’d been talking about God and how God had created everything……he said he was worried at school because he didn’t believe this, he thought it was unlikely one person could do all this stuff.

He’s a bright and inquisitive kid, very thoughtful, old beyond his years.

His mum asked him why he thought in this way ( she’s not religious but wants him to make up his own mind and doesn’t go against the philosophy of the school )

He told her about a discussion I’d had with him about space and rockets which had lead me into telling him about The Big Bang theory.

I had no idea he was balancing this in his own head against the God theory, I’m just fascinated by space and enjoyed showing him YouTube clips about Big Bang and space flights.

He said that he thought The Big Bang was far more realistic! 😎🤣

He had a stellar school report today so maybe there is a chink of light and hope with some youngsters.

But……I’d hate to see him fighting for his country and then having to deal with the vitriol many want to pour on our troops at a later date.

Bomber Command had more losses in their overhaul personnel than any other branch of our armed forces. Most of the crews were young men in their early twenties. They flew every night knowing that it might be the last flight they made. The stress must have been unbearable. But they were treated like war criminals and lepers after the war and only recently given the credit they deserve.
I wonder if Germany would have apologised for London, Coventry, Birmingham, Liverpool, Plymouth and many other towns they brought death and destruction to on such a large scale?
"The Germans started this war with the childish notion that they were going to bomb everyone and no-one was going to bomb them. They have sown the wind, they shall reap the whirlwind." - Arthur Harris.

[Dubbag]

"The Germans started this war .......

Only with the compliance of Stalin.
Always young men fighting old men's wars.....