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Remembrance
“Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.” — Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish Novelist, Poet, and Essayist
To all those who fought in the name of democracy and fairness against the German Imperialism of 1914–1918 and against the Nazi horrors between 1939–1945. The isolationism of the American governments of Wilson and Roosevelt, their equivocation over the terror inflicted by the Kaiser’s government and their Nazi successors, is an eternal stain upon American honour. The fact that they had to wait for 1917 (when WW1 was nearly over) and later for Japan to attack Pearl Harbour in 1941 before joining the anti-Fascist wars speaks volumes. Thousands of British and Empire troops had already died resisting the Nazis, Imperialists and Fascists. .
