100-year-old World War II Veteran Alec Penstone

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@GMB on X: 'What we fought for was our freedom, even now [the country] is worse than it was when I fought for it,' says 100-year-old World War II Veteran Alec Penstone.

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00:00What does Remembrance Sunday mean for you?

00:03What is your message?

00:05My message is, I can see in my mind's eye

00:09there was rows and rows of white stones

00:13of all the hundreds of my friends and everybody else

00:17that gave their lives for what?

00:21The country of today.

00:23No, I'm sorry.

00:24But the sacrifice wasn't worth the result that it is now.

00:31Oh, well, I'm sorry.

00:32What do you mean by that, though, at this point?

00:36Well, what we fought for, and what we fought for was our freedom.

00:41We find that even now it's a darn sight worse

00:45than what it was when I fought for it.

00:49Oh, Alec, I'm sorry you feel like that,

00:51because I want you to know that all the generations

00:54that have come since, including me and my children,

00:58are so grateful.

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