h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I admit it! I'm one of those people who buys a poppy every year. I don't just dig out last years poppy and get the wife to iron it, I buy a new one. I wear it. I have pride in it. Am I odd? You'd think so to see the apathy from some of the Students where I work. I asked them if they remembered the 11th of November - would they give a minutes remembrance. Answers included -

* Naaaaah, wots the f**kin' point, they're all dead now anyhow!

* Why, I never asked them to fight for us, mebbee itud be better under Hitler than Blair!

* What....Thursday......why......what's happening Thursday....?


And so on.......


This got me thinking, what would it be like if we HAD lost the last war, and Adolf Hitler had got his dream of Global Supremacy?

My friends wife may have been killed at birth, she is disabled.

My daughter may have been killed at birth, she is handicapped.

Saying that, I may not have been allowed to live, or possibly just sterilized. I have dark hair and eyes.

Would we have the standard of living we have now?

Would the Jewish race still exist at all?

Real food for thought.

As far as I'm concerned, we SHOULD remember. Many people went to war, a lot never returned. Those that did return were never quite the same, from the WWI veterans to the Gulf soldiers.

We should remember those who gave up their time and lives to ensure a better future.

We should also remember that War is never a solution.

We may have forced a surrender in the conflict, but while we have lost people's lives, we have never won!

So I'm going to give a minute of my time on Thursday. I'm going to lock my office door, and take a minute to remember my relatives, my Grandfather who was had his ship bombed. I'm proud of them.