[SOC] Re: GB> Veterans Day

[Ian C. Purdie]

richard.arland at verizon.net wrote:

> Ian:
> 
> Thank...you!!
 

Thanks to everyone.

I've just been watching a horrible documentary on the History Channel. "The Last 
Day of World War 1"

I had never heard the story before. After four bloody years of war, stupid 
gernerals, knowing the armistice had been signed at 5:00 a.m. to come into 
effect at 11:00 a.m. continued to send men into battle in a feverish manner 
until the very last minute.

Artillery fired none stop.

The last American to die did so at 10:59 a.m.

There were more casualties between 5:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. than there were on 
6th June, 1944.

Literally cold blooded murder. What an absolute disgrace.

We had a Field Marshall in WW11 who wasted Australian [and American] lives in 
New Guinea throughout 1945. Why? The Japanese had nowhere to go, no means of 
re-supply and posed no threat to anyone. They would have literally died on the 
vine. Thousands of young lives sacrificed for the vanity of an old lying, 
thieving fool.

No wonder my father hated him with a passion and little wonder he became a 
public disgrace after the war.


72/73's

Ian C. Purdie
Budgewoi N.S.W. Australia - Co-ords S33°14', E151°34'
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