I was moved to tears by the BBC programming highlitghing the distruction of Coventry. My tear were of pride, pride in the spirit of my English brother and sisters.

I was also frustrated by the persistent use of the word Nazi to describe the people responsible for the planing and executing the raid on Covdntry. In 1940 the people and Goverment of Britain were at war with the Germany and the German goverment, not the Nazi party. When my mother relays stories of her childhood and speaks of running to the air raid shelter which was Boroughs underground station in London, she has always speaks of the terror caused by the threat of the German bombers.

I’m concerned history is being rewritten slowly changing history to future genration

I’m taking National Security Law this fall and, shockingly, we talk a lot about war. In undergrad I took a class titled simply “War” and one of our books was called “Morality of Contemporary Warfare” or something like that. When I see numbers like these, where it’s a few hundred compared to many many thousands, I wonder how that’s a proportional response? I’m sure it’s all been justified by scholars by now, but thinking about it makes me uncomfortable.

I’m glad it still makes me uncomfortable.

{btw, I like your new blog design, chérie!}

There were also several raids on Osnabruck in the war, many of which killed a lot more than in Coventry. Coventry is famous because it was one of the first cities to be bombed in that way but by the standards of the rest of WW2 it was quite small. Scary stuff.