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Thread #131358 Message #2962471
Posted By: gnu
10-Aug-10 - 07:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: Empathy for Tragedy?
Subject: RE: BS: Empathy for Tragedy?
LH... "What if the Germans had successfully invaded the UK in 1940, and Churchill had died trapped in a bunker under London? Would he not have felt similar desperation, defiance, and despair? Would he not have wanted to die rather than surrender? Would the Germans ever have taken him alive? I doubt it."
The last question... Yes. They would have. "we shall never surrender" ring a bell?