Posted on 11/13/2023 9:29:51 AM PST by DFG
Distraught Jewish veteran Mervyn Kersh was one of nine D-Day veterans to march past the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday - but he fears another war could be on the horizon and the sacrifices of the Greatest Generation could be in vain.
The father-of-three, 98, served in the Second World War as a private with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, fighting through Belgium, Holland and Germany.
He was also sent to help survivors of Adolf Hitler's death camp: Bergen-Belsen, where 70,000 or more people died including many Jews.
Speaking yesterday, as he remembered his comrades, Mervyn said tearfully: 'It was a waste of time. We are going through the same thing again.'
Mr Kersh pointed to Hamas' recent attacks on Israel, calling them 'very upsetting.'
Speaking about the sacrifices of those who fought in the Second World War he told The Sun: 'It had a purpose which we have achieved but we seem to be losing it again and it's very upsetting.
'If we're not strong and we're not ready for war, we are going to land up in another war'.
His daughter, Lynne, 70, said she thought the crowds at the Cenotaph were smaller than previous years because of the recent protests.
'I think people were afraid after yesterday about what might have gone on,' she said. 'I think the crowd was about half what we would usually get. Enthusiastic, but much lower in numbers', she said.
Those taking part had travelled from as far away as Australia and Canada. The youngest – eight-year-old Isabelle Bovington – was there to remember her Royal Navy nurse father, while several centenarians who served in the Second World War were present.
Nine heroes of the D-Day landings were among the procession.
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Tribe of Judah? The rest seem bent on destruction. I’m tired of the same sctick.
The major difference today is the enlistment offices are empty.
....the late teen-aged son of one of our good friends is hell-bent on joining the U.S. military....as a nearly 30-year veteran myself, I’m telling him not to enlist...today’s armed forces are not what I served in and this country today is not the country I swore an oath to protect and defend.... jus’ sayin’ ...
Soros isn’t helping his own people, he seems hell bent on destroying them.
Haters are gonna hate and the anti-semitic far left are the Mothers of All Haters. They call themselves “democrats” this time instead of Nazis and are pretending to be defending what they call their “democrazy”.
You speak the truth.
Judas goat.
agree.
God bless him and the others who preserved America at risk of their lives.
Sad commentary:
https://twitter.com/austinkleon/status/803281558807269376
“Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.”
I was on active duty from 76-84. My sons and nephews heard a few of my stories. I loved my time in the Army, but it’s a far cry from today’s military.
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