I'm lazily half-following the campaigning for the General Election now on-going in the nation of my birth. Am baffled as to the behaviour of the PM with regard to his early departure from the D Day Anniversary. I mean it's not exactly difficult to grasp that this was just plain wrong. I don't pretend to be a patriot of any sort, and even I know that.
Funnily enough it's quite heartening to pick up on the general outrage that has ensued. Obviously some of it is faked, but I get the impression that most is coming from folk on all sides of the political spectrum with a real sense of decency. It isn't what I feel, though. I'm simply baffled in a disappointed manner, not having the energy to rise to outrage.
One good thing about all this. Apart from the commemorations in themselves, the sour story helpfully reinforces the collective memory as to the extraordinary event of the D Day landings and all that hung upon the courage of those allied troops involved.
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