Quislings And The Fifth Column
Kim du Toit
March 7, 2005
2:22 AM CDT
You know, I was enraged by the efforts of that New York schoolteacher to undermine the morale of our soldiers in Iraq, by allowing his class to send critical letters to them.
It’s not a new thing, by the way. Here’s a little rant from a British soldier in the Boer War:
But he is not the only gentleman, who after having done his best, has got nothing but ridicule; not from the public themselves but from certain newspapers. It is a pity those wiseacres did not come out here instead of staying at home to grumble and find fault with a subject they know absolutely nothing about. If they had come out I am sure that they would have changed their opinions I may here mention, had it not been for some of those gentlemen at home who call themselves Englishmen, but are Dutch at heart and who are rightly turned pro-Boer, I might have wrote this simple tale over my own fire side in peace and comfort at home in England , instead of having to write it on the far off lonely veldt. I, as a soldier, have nothing to thank those gentlemen at home who help to prolong the war by the wagging of libellous tongues.
Now you know. It seems as though every damn war is accompanied by scum who identify more with the enemy than with their own country.
Okay, now you can all go and pick up the broken pieces and fix the bullet-holes in your walls. Sorry about that, but I see no reason why I should be the only one thus afflicted.