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Old 08-09-2009, 18:57   #23
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Re: How short is the memory?

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Originally Posted by Restless View Post
how much time is needed? its the same for many memories.. We english should be hated all over if memories never fade... being one of the most barbaric countries throughout history
Twice, in one generation, the Germans dragged the world into the bloodiest wars in history ... England doesn't even come close to this .... and when you are bitching about your economic woes, remember that England spent its national treasure, and the best and bravest of its citizens to hold the Germans at bay.

Len Deighton put it well in "Blood, Tears, and Folly": "Half a century has passed, and the time has come to sweep away the myths and reveal the no less inspiring gleam of that complex and frightening time in which evil was in the ascendant, goodness diffident, and the British - impetuous, foolish and brave beyond measure - the world's only hope." This is your legacy, one to be proud of. The German legacy is, I believe, summed up in "evil was in the ascendant."
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