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I don't want my past to become Britain's future

submitted by Buck

6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago

I'm at Metro picking up celery, onions and chips. I stop at the bulk candy for some (canadian) rockets. There is this tiny 5 foot withered dude fumbling with his candy, I grab a tag for me and a tag for him. I ask what his tag number is and write it for him. We start chatting. He is 94. It turns out it's this dude. In a small city in Canada random grocery store encounter and I am amazed by this man. - Buck

"As one of the last remaining survivors of the Great Depression and the Second World War, I will not go gently into that good night. I want to tell you what the world looks like through my eyes, so that you can help change it...' In November 2013, 91-year-old Yorkshireman, RAF veteran and ex-carpet salesman Harry Leslie Smith's Guardian article - 'This year, I will wear a poppy for the last time' - was shared over 80,000 times on Facebook and started a huge debate about the stateof society. Now he brings his unique perspective to bear on NHS cutbacks, benefits policy, political corruption, food poverty, the cost of education - and much more. From the deprivation of 1930s Barnsley and the terror of war to the creation of our welfare state, Harry has experienced how a great civilization can rise from the rubble. But at the end of his life, he fears how easily it is being eroded. Harry's Last Stand is a lyrical, searing modern invective that shows what the past can teach us, and how the future is ours for the taking."

Amazing who you can meet when you are chatty.

YT - "Official Jeremy Corbyn Channel
Published on Jul 5, 2016
When Harry Leslie Smith left to serve in World War II "no health care was the norm". When he returned after extended service, the Labour Party had created a health service 'free at the point of use' - the NHS.

Harry warns us, "I don't want my past to become Britain's future". His history is our history.

"On its 68th birthday and on a day when our junior doctors voted against a contract being imposed upon them which they say is not safe for patients and not sustainable - we must resolve to protect the National Health Service. "