While listening to some internet audio I ran across this below and transcribed it as I thought it might be of some comfort to you now and a warning to us here....
In 1946, Edward R. Murrow reminisced about his years spent reporting WW2 from Britain. At first he didn't care for the weather, the roads or cooking. He said,
"I admired your history, doubted your future and suspected that the historians had merely agreed upon a myth. But always there was something that escaped me. Always there remained in the back of a youthful and undisciplined mind the suspicion that I might be wrong."Murrow continued....
About nine years ago, being persuaded that war was inevitable, I came here to live. Now I am going home and the BBC have asked this reporter to remember. This might go on for a week, but I must try to speak of those things that are riveted upon my memory not because they are important or profound but because they represent things of great value which I shall be taking back with me.
I believe that I have learned the most important thing that has happened in Britain during the last six years. It was not, I think, the demonstration of physical courage, that has been a cheap commodity in this war. Many people of many nations were brave under the bombs.
I doubt that the most important thing was Dunkirk or the Battle of Britain, El Alamein or Stalingrad. Not even the landings in Normandy or the great blows struck by British and American bombers. Historians may decide that any one of those events was decisive, but I am persuaded that the most important thing that happened in Britain was that this nation chose to win or lose this war under the established rules of parliamentary procedure. It feared Naziism, but did not choose to imitate it. The government was given dictatorial power, but it was used with restraint, and the House of Commons was ever vigilant. Do you remember that while London was being bombed in the daylight, the House devoted two days to discussing conditions under which enemy aliens were detained on the Isle of Man? Though Britain fell, there were to be no concentration camps here.
Do you remember that two days after Italy declared war an Italian citizen convicted of murder in the lower court appealed successfully to the highest court in the land and the original verdict was set aside? There was still law in the land regardless of race, nationality or hatred. Representative government, equality before the law survived.
Future generations who bother to read the official record of proceedings in the House of Commons will discover that British armies retreated from many places, but that there was no retreat from the principles for which your ancestors fought. The record is massive evidence of the flexibility and toughness of the principles you profess.
It will, I think, inspire and lift men's hearts long after the names of most of the great sea and land engagements have been forgotten. It was your answer to the question that was asked all around the world in the decades before that Sunday in September of 1939. The question was, "What has happened to the soul of Britain?" Your answer was conclusive and I have been privileged to see an entire people give the reply to tyranny that their history demanded of them.( Edward R. Murrow - Feb. 1946.)
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The audio for this can be found at
the bottom of this page along with other excerpts from Murrow's reports.
It is kind of an odd site for audio...as you click through it tells you it is downloading but to where on my computer I have yet to figure out. :) I don't know if the site is loaded with spyware but that is where I found and transcribed the above.
our thoughts and prayers are with you...
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