From: John Stewart-Smith (john_stewartsmith@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 31 2002 - 05:15:34 PST
Sarge's thoughts about the Queen Mum;
Dave, everyone is entitled to their opinion, and your opinion would seem to
be heavily influenced by a derogatory news article run on MSNBC.
I was born and raised in Great Britain, and whereas the Royal family is by
no means perfect, the Queen Mum was the closest thing to perfect that the
country had.
If I ever meet you, I may like you, and I may like your style, but do not,
EVER, badmouth the Queen Mum in my presence.
I will take it as a personal insult.
In return, I promise to never insult any of your cherished idols.
I am in no way "chest-beating", I was just deeply offended by your remarks.
Many of her views were in line with the world at that time, the 'politically
correct' world of today can change the present, but not the past. These
things did happen, however no amount of complaining will change it.
On a personal note, the Queen Mum did think that the Jews were 'strange',
she was absolutely correct. I fought with Israelis and they are a wonderful
'strange' people, who if they were 'normal' would have perished long ago.
Also, Sir Winston was irritating and rude, but he was the right man in the
right place at the right time. My point is, there is a good side and a bad
side to every person alive, when the good outweighs the bad 99 to 1, it's
not worth wasting your breath dwelling on the bad. Only the press seems to
do this.
Am I upset at you Dave?
No, just a little disappointed.
I'm sure that you are really a good person,
-Sarge
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Ball" <vought@msn.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 1:27 PM
Subject: [MV] Queen Mum
> Hi all...
>
> Just to set the record straight the Queen Mum persuaded Parliament and
> Winston Churchill whom she could not stand by the way to pacify Hitler and
> it was only after Hitler started heading straight for England killing tens
> of thousands of French and Dutch on the way that she took a "back seat"
and
> let Winston Churchill (who is probably one of the greatest leaders the
> English have ever had) do it his way. Also the Queen Mum lived at Windsor
> Castle which is where she remained during the war which by the way was
> relatively safe from the Blitz if you remember the Germans hit Buckingham
> Palace and it was well known that no one was home when it happened. Sure
the
> Queen jumped in a limo and had the reporters come out to see her walking
> around the ruins looking none the worse jumping from ruble pile to ruble
> pile all the while her subjects were being bombed and rocketed from right
> across the channel and there lives were in a shambles.
> FDR met with Churchill it was a famous meeting and Secret after that
meeting
> American Factories kicked it into high gear we still had not entered the
war
> even when Churchill pleaded for our help we did nothing but pass him a
bill
> for the tanks and planes.
> Because of a little known law passed in 1937 called the neutrality Act we
> could not get involved remember Roosevelt was an isolationist and America
> had geographical isolation. Between 1930 and 1940 America enjoyed the
> booming German economy. America was fueling all sides of the war and this
> was bringing America out of the depression so we had good reason to wait.
> In 1937 the Japanese army numbered over a million ours was one hundred
> thousand. The Queen never met with FDR on any War Maters this was not her
> "duties" and below Her Station.
> America entered the War in 1941 when the Japanese ended our isolation by
> forcing us to open a big can of whoop-ass and by this time lucky for the
> world we had waited because now America was strong rich and mad as hell.
> FDR had another meeting December 12th 1941 with Winston Churchill and FDR
> told him America was on the way and pissed.
> The rest is History.
> The Queen Mum was a Monarch she Partied and lived a long life well taken
> care of. She also supported Apartheid and did this openly, thought the
Jews
> were strange and tried to persuade many including Churchill to leave
Hitler
> alone after all he was harmless.
>
>
> Dave Ball
>
>
>
>
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