Veterans Day — celebrated as Remembrance Day elsewhere in the Anglosphere — was haunted this year by some veterans’ uncertainty about whether their efforts and the sacrifice of their comrades translated into improvements for their respective nations.
Alec Penstone was 15 years old and working in a factory when World War II kicked off.
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After the Germans started bombing London, Penstone volunteered as an air raid precautions messenger — a role in which he found himself occasionally pulling his countrymen’s bodies out of the rubble.
The Briton, whose father had been grievously wounded in the trenches of the previous world war by friendly fire, soon joined the Royal Navy, serving as an able seaman on D-Day and beyond on submarines and
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