Cheers for that; being in a position to make only small donations is frustrating - your message 'is' appreciated. Quite something - resonance between Ukraine's defenders and, our greatest generation that we claim to remember... archive.org/download/the...
"Remember the dead. In the Second World War, Britain and her Commonwealth lost 480,000 dead. 120,000 of them were from the Commonwealth. 60,000 were civilians, men, women, and children killed in air raids on Britain. Compared to the slaughter of the First World War, the total is not great. But remember the dead. Each one a son, father, husband, lover. We had a telegram to say that he was missing on operations. And it reads, regret to inform you that your husband, squadron leader Thomas Henry Desmond Drinkwater, is missing as the result of air operations on Thursday the 18th of May, 1944. Letter follows. Any further information received will be immediately communicated to you. Pending receipt of written notification from Air Ministry, no information should be given to the press. It's very funny, a battlefield. The other day I was watching a duck shoot. The actual area extended to about four square miles, of which a fifth was in action. All the rest was waiting. And a battlefield is like that. It's extraordinary how inanimate the whole thing seems. There's a little bit of an action going on in the right-hand corner of some sort. For the rest there are people lying about, smoking. And waiting. And sleeping. And waiting. And waiting. It's one of the very singular things that films and books don't bring out. I think Tolstoy perhaps is the exception of a battlefield where nothing seems to be happening. The action is always over a hedge somewhere in another corner. And it's the decisive thing."
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Cheers for that; being in a position to make only small donations is frustrating - your message 'is' appreciated. Quite something - resonance between Ukraine's defenders and, our greatest generation that we claim to remember... archive.org/download/the...