11th November. Remembrance Day today. Are there any WWII veterans still able to attend the ceremonies? Assuming someone lied about his age and signed up at age 15 in the last few months of the war in the Pacific, he would be 96 now. The youngest veterans of the Korean and Vietnam wars would be in their 90s and late 60s, respectively.
Today is also Rhodesian Independence Day, the 61st anniversary of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) on the 11th November 1965, when Rhodesia became independent from Britain in a similar fashion to America 189 years earlier. Most of us who fought in our own war against the communist terrorists are over 70, many already dead. In my previous and earlier posts, I wrote about the tragic consequences of Rhodesia being forced politically to become Zimbabwe despite convincingly winning the military war.
So for many like myself, some of the last survivors of the White tribe of Africa, today is a sombre reminder of those who died fighting for freedom, and those who died in Rhodesia and South Africa because they were abandoned by their former WWII allies.
Looking at the state of the Western world today, it seems the veterans we honour died in vain.
