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Originally Posted by thirdoffive
can't say that they were the pathe' films or not...but yes. I've seen clips of sir winston churchill's funeral. The part that i most vividly remember is when the barge carrying the coffin proceeded downriver, the construction cranes bowed as it passed.
Powerful, and touching.
Not a brit, but i know as much or more about churchill as anyone, studying his life and career extensively while in college as well as following. I don't know if the modern world really knows just how much it owes to that man.
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the english also overlooked the accomplishments of 2 other great men who actually did the work of winning the war.
Leo szilard proved to einstein that the germans were on the path to obtaining nuclear weapons. Stunned, einstein quickly met with fdr to give him the devastating news. Soon after that meeting the manhattan project came into existence.
Alan turring is credited with saving over 21 million victims of ww2 by cracking germanys ultra powerful coding machine called enigma.
His reward incarceration chemical castration, villification so he committed suicide at the age of 41 because his country no longer needed him. This is a dark stain on british history's pages. In response to an overwhelming internet drive of ten's of thousands of petitions exposing the betrayal the queen was forced to pardon him, the father of the computer age and a.i. In 2013 an outrageous treatment of a true war hero had to wait 57 years to be acclaimed the hero he always was