'They think its all over...
It is now.'
~ Kenneth Wolstenholme's BBC TV commentary, 1966 FIFA World Cup Final.
...
It's all over.
Well that's what there're telling anyone who would listen.
But it's not, is it?
My father often talks about the idealist youth.
But the people of our generation is not idealist are they?
They are all dead.
I reread your reports from the front line, I find it hard to believe it, any of it. But that just makes it worse, because those monstrosities did happen, and there are now millions of young men who have had their idealist brains blown out and are lying in some French field, were the blood runs rivets through the mire.
You say that the only things that you possess is a pen and your voice.
At least you have that, they only have their names.
It all was a bloody waste, wasn't it?
F.
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Authors note:
The 28th June, 1919 was the day that the Treaty of Versailles was signed in a train carriage, formally ending the First World War.
In 22nd June, 1940, Adolf Hitler and others sat down in the same train carriage and demanded and received the French declaration of surrender.
In early 1945, threatened by an American armoured Column, the SS who had been tasked with guarding it, set it ablaze.
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