British public schools are upper crust private schools. During both World Wars their grads served in overwhelming numbers and had high casualty rates as junior officers.
Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
No rich person has ever gone to war for their country? Who writes such gibberish? I mean, At least say ‘most never go’ and give yourself some wiggle room.
War is for low to mid IQ people? I was a gifted child growing up and got my degree on an academic scholarship. I served as a medic in a combat unit. My two oldest sons were also gifted students. They were both deployed by the Army to the Middle East for the Global War on Terror. I suspect the person who wrote that is low IQ.
We all know who the original poster is with a X handle like “squiggly hair shanks”
There is a monument to Peers and sons of Peers killed in WWI in the corridor outside the British House of Lords chamber, memorializing the bloodletting. Despite “Squiggly Hair Shank’s” lazy assertion, a few minutes spent with Google reveals that British peers and their sons were killed at a rate almost double that of regular enlisted. Over 10,000 nobles served, and between 20-25% were killed in action.
There is a long list of peerages that are now extinct because all of the heirs to the title were killed in the war. For example, Baron Tyrell lost both of his sons on 15th February 1915, thus ending his line.
Prince Maurice of Battenberg, a grandson of Queen Victoria herself, was killed in the field.
Knucklehead has forgotten that John F. Kennedy and George H.W. Bush were combat veterans.
Reading some of his X posts, he would appear to be a fantasist.
Britain seems at times a retirement home of old political ideas: monarchy, titled aristocracy, and 19th C pit-and-factory socialism (now miraculously transferred to uni grads with degrees in thingummy studies). The Brits refer to a “reverse snobbery” that even our Leftists don’t quite embrace: equality means everybody in a council flat with a state school education, and no aspirations except to tear down and pillage any remaining “toffs”. Their “workers’ Paradise” is the grey town of C.S. Lewis’ “Great Divorce”.
David Niven is an air pilot hero.