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This British veteran went viral after he expressed that the fight in World War II was not worth the result of the modern world.
"What does Remembrance Sunday mean for you? What is your message?"
"All the hundreds of my friends and everybody else that gave their lives for what the country of today. No, I'm sorry. The sacrifice wasn't worth the result that it is now. Oh, well, I'm sorry."
"What What do you What do you mean by that, though, at this point?"
"Well, gee, I don't know. Where would you like to start, TV man? Perhaps there's no video more emblematic of what he's talking about than this. An assumingly great man of another generation walking through clown world in the rubble of the world he thought he fought for."
"What we fought for, what we fought for was our freedom. with father even now is downside worse than what it was when I fought for it."
"Oh, Alec, I'm sorry you feel like that because I want you to know that all the generations that have come since, including me and my children are so grateful for your bravery and all that for service personnel. And it's our job now, isn't it, to make it the country that you fought for."
I'm sure that's going to make him feel a lot better. In 2022, this 100-year-old American veteran tearfully expressed similar sentiments.
"It's all going down the drain. Our country's going to hell in a hand basket. We haven't got the country we had when I was raised. Not at all. Nobody will have [laughter] the fun I had. Nobody will have the opportunity I had. This is just not the same. That's not what I want. That's not what they died for. I just just not it, darling. I'm so sorry."
"We I'll be all right. just takes me time to get over it because I just I why why me? She's sitting here like this. See all this going on?"
"It's crazy."
"It's just Emily is just just not It's just not the same. That isn't what we fought for. Oh, well, I should be worried about it. I guess I'm 100 years old, they say."
And in 2024, this veteran also went viral when he said this.
"What do you think about the state of our country today? How do you feel about the the country that you worked so hard to to stay free, to keep free?"
"The real truth."
"Yeah."
"I I feel like a foreigner in my own country lots of times. And I I don't like it. makes my heart real heavy and uh I I just hope we can pull out of this."
"Do you think 16year-olds would would fake their age as you did in order to go off and fight for the country today? 16 year olds today?"
"No, I don't think so. It it was a diff different generation. Each generation is a little bit different."
"And I I think that the all the generations are great, but I think some of the ones I got now are a little lazy. And I I think they got to show more pride in their country than they do. I'm just hoping I never run in to anything where somebody's trying to burn the flag cuz I'll stop them right now."