Completly off topic

I think i have helped do something very special.

To get this you have to teleport back to a different age.

Fascism was alive and well and based in Europe, as opposed to the white house....

But it's 1940 the Belgian army has been betrayed by it's leaders.

Part of the French Army has folded like a deck of cards.

Part of the French Army fought like tigers to defend their land but the leadership was flawed and communication Napoleonic.

The British Army as ever half equipped had fought partly with valour and partly very badly.

The whole lot was stuck in northern France, mainly but not exclusively, around Dunkirk.

George Bush's grandfather was running the bank accounts of the Nazi's and promoting their interest's in America.

The call went out for owners of small boats, without really telling them why, to gather in ports in South East England.

700 boats and the weekend sailors, retired people, fisher folk, pilots and everyone else sailed from England into the waters off Dunkirk.

The Me 109's strafed them the JU88's bombed them, cannons rained down shell.

And these ordinary people sailed into that. Took on board the frightened, injured young men of the British army and brought them safe home.

Then knowing what they had escaped, they went and did it again.

Then they did it again.

Until the bulk of the British and some of the French army were safe back in Britain.

These were heroes to heroes, the capital H would fill the page.

The boats they sailed were just anything that would float paddle steamers, life boats, pilot cutters, fishing boats, pleasure craft and private yachts.

Interestingly, a few who had pre war been amongst the brown shirted English Nazis were there with the bravest of the brave and by all accounts amongst the bravest of all.

Over the years those 700 craft have slowly vanished.

There is a register of all that remain.

Last week one went on eBay.

Lying in a yard in Carmarthenshire, no one bid on it, and by fluke, yesterday I mentioned this to another foster carer and today he bid on it and

It has been saved.

He bought it.

It will need 15 k spending on it but.

How do you put a value on a boat like that?

Whats more, and there is more.

He has asked me to help him take it back to Dunkirk for the next memorial ceremony.

I did have to pause it must have been a whole nano second.

But who would not walk in the shadows of such heroes in the hope that some little part of those ordinary people who did extraordinary things might rub off on them.

I am not British, I am Welsh , much of today's Britain I reject from the depths of my heart.

Dunkirk Britain stood absolutely alone against fascism when, it seemed victory could not be won, but if defeat could be delayed a week then a week was worth fighting for. That is a Britain I could be proud of.

Make no mistake either, Pearl Harbor was a side show. Yes Americans were the ultimate saviours but it was the "Patriotic war" that beat Hitler.

Dunkirk was no victory.

But, because total defeat was avoided

There was a Britain left when Russia and America were each forced into war.

And our American allies saw through the Bush family and their allegiances.

History is very important.