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| Click image to enlargify From Picture Post Magazine, July 13, 1940, pp 24-25 |
SOMETHING OUR FATHERS FOUGHT FOR ALL THROUGH THE CENTURIES: SOMETHING WE MUST FIGHT FOR TO-DAY
The land of Britain has been fought for many times. Our fathers of a thousand years ago fought to keep off the Danes. Our fathers of a hundred years ago fought to keep off the French. Now we fight to keep off the Germans. We fight so that there shall not be a Gauleiter of Kent or Cumberland, or Lincoln. So that there shall be no branch of the Gestapo in Harlech or Dundee.
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Jay's thoughts: Our enemies of today are of a similar ilk to those of the 1940s. But our enemies come from many different nations, including our own. It's difficult to fight against an enemy that has no borders, no national identity. It is difficult to fight against our own people -- people who seem like ordinary folk and believe they are in the right, yet are doing incredible damage to the fabric that holds our society together. But we must fight, like our forefathers fought against the the Nordic invaders, and the French, and the Germans. We must hold our enemies at bay. We must not lose. Our freedom and liberties are at stake. Our very lives and families are at risk.
