Ghost of a flea

Give us the tools and we will finish the job

All through these dark Winter months the enemy have had the power to drop three or four tons of bombs upon us for every ton we could send to Germany in return. We are arranging so that presently this will be the other way around, but meanwhile London and our big cities have had to stand their pounding. They remind me of the British squares at Waterloo. They are not squares of soldiers, they do not wear scarlet coats; they are just ordinary English, Scottish and Welsh folk, men, women and children, standing steadfastly together. But their spirit is the same, their glory is the same and, in the end, their victory will be greater than far-famed Waterloo.
- Winston Churchill takes stock of the war, February 9, 1941

Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 9, 2005 08:50 AM

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