Today marks the one hundred and seventh anniversary of the Armistice that ended the fighting on the Western Front.
'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.’
‘When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.’
‘We will remember them.’
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Amen
ReplyDeleteGeordie an Exile FoG,
DeleteAmen.
Bob
You know: I don't think Europe has ever properly recovered from that war...
ReplyDeleteArchduke Piccolo (Ion),
DeleteThere is a very valid historical argument that the Second World War was a continuation of the First World War, and that the interwar period was merely an interval whilst the various nations sorted themselves out.
As far as the UK in concerned, the First World War pretty well ruined her economically, and is one reason why we suffered so badly during the Great Depression. The final nail in the UK economy's coffin was the requirement to pay for all the 'help' provided by the US before December 1941. The UK's gold reserves were depleted and her overseas investments sold off to pay for the armaments etc., that the US provided.
Things gradually got better, and by the mid 1960s things were on the up ... but then people got greedy, engineering companies didn't invest, and rather than be innovators and producers, the UK became consumers.
The rest - as they say - is history.
All the best,
Bob