Told you there was going to be some history in here somewhere.
The same day I picked up my bike the last surviving British WW1 veteran, Harry Patch, passed away at the age of 111 on July 25th.
He summed up the War with this quote:
“It wasn't worth it. No war is worth it. No war is worth the loss of a couple of lives let alone thousands. T'isn't worth it...the First World War, if you boil it down, what was it? Nothing but a family row. That's what caused it. The Second World War...Hitler wanted to govern Europe, nothing to it. I would have taken the Kaiser, his son, Hitler and the people on his side and bloody shot them. Out the way and saved millions of lives. T'isn't worth it.”
WW1 is still seems to mean a lot in England.
I arrived last November just before Remembrance day.
On November 11, at 11:11 A.M. every one stopped for two minutes for a moment of silence. And they didn't just blow it off. They actually stopped what they were doing.
I'm ashamed to admit most Americans can't even remember when WW1 was much less that we were involved in it for a short time.
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