Thanks for the cartoon.
I shudder to think that just about anyone born after “The Sixties”
in the USA probably wouldn’t have a clue as to the context and message
of that cartoon/graphic.
As in one average soldier, alone with his rifle, shaking a defiant fist
against the menace of a massive Luftwaffe.
I haven’t been able to find it, but in the early day of the Internet,
I ran across an opinion piece that said the last line of a message
to headquarters in London before “the miracle of Dunkirk” was realized
ended with the line “...and if not...”
I think it was an allusion to a passage in the book of Daniel in which
the Babylonian king was informed that even if was to threaten execution,
some of the Jews would NOT bow to worship him.
another historical post prompted by the cartoon (post #22)...
“War of the Unknown Warriors”
BBC Broadcast
July 14,1940
“We are fighting by ourselves alone; but we are not fighting for ourselves alone.”
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=419