Candour Update #24. Issue #889 Published. Remembrance Day: Veteran, 100, says winning the war "not worth it".
- candourwebmaster
- Nov 8
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 11
WWII: It was "not worth it!"
From the Mail on Saturday
"A 100-year-old veteran shocked TV hosts yesterday (November 7) by declaring that winning the Second World war 'wasn't worth it' because of the state of the country.
Alec Penstone told Good Morning Britain's Adil Ray and Kate Garraway how he had signed up for the Royal Navy as soon as he came of age.
Asked by Ms Garraway what Remembrance Sunday meant to him, he said: 'I can see in my mind's eye those rows and rows of white stones and all the hundreds of my friends who gave their lives, for what? The country of today?
No, I'm sorry but the sacrifice wasn't worth the result of what it is now. What we fought for was our freedom, but now it's a darn sight worse than when I fought for it.'"
WELL SAID SIR! I strongly suspect the old boy very successfully ambushed the smug media types! (Email your local press in the UK with the text of these comments and a brief 'surround' of your own before Tuesday the 11th).
I have a copy of the book The Unknown Warriors by Nicholas Pringle (2nd Edition. 2009. ISBN 9781409271741) which I think is out of print but doubtless you can hunt down your own second hand copy online. The author cleverly, in 2006, wrote a letter to every regional newspaper in the UK in the hope that they would be published. Many did print it. Among the questions he asked surviving veterans were "Is it a disappointment or are you happy with how your country turned out? What do you think your fallen comrades would have made of life in 21st Century Britain?' The result was the book (cover shown above). The sentiments very much in line with our own...
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