70 years ago today at 3:00 Prime
Minister Winston Churchill broadcast a speech announcing the long
awaited and prayed for end of WWII in Europe.
Today, Great Britain
marked that historic event by two minutes of silence. You could have
heard a pin drop.
These people still remember and realize how
different their world could be if England and her Allies had not won
the war. It is an understatement to say that
personal freedom, societal mores and oh so much
more would have been so different, and not in a good way.
It is fair to say that the entire world
would have changed, not just Europe and the United Kingdom.
We owe a debt to those brave men and
women, both military and civilian, who refused to believe in nothing
but victory; Who gave up so much, including their lives and the
lives of loved ones; Who did without so much including the basics of
food, shelter, clothing and fuel and did without it well into the 1950's.
The British Empire bankrupt itself to
fight and win this war both for themselves and for the rest of what
we now call the free world.
We should all say an heartfelt thank
you for such courage and self sacrifice. This was truly one of the
greatest ,if not the greatest, acts by a nation and her people.
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