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Jewish Normandy veteran Mervyn Kersh was proud to serve his country, but lamented that the modern United Kingdom is ultimately worse than the one he fought for.<\/p>\n

Kersh, who turned 101 in 2025, arrived in Normandy, France a mere three days after the D-Day invasion began in June 1944. He was later stationed near the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when the camp was liberated by fellow British troops in April 1945. Since then, he has lamented what happened to his home country, noting it has gone downhill and sees rising antisemitism.<\/p>\n

“I think it [the war] was a waste of time, because the benefits we got from it, the wartime camaraderie and everyone, almost everybody, mucked in [with] whatever they could do,” he told the Daily Mail.<\/a> “‘Whatever [way] they could help somebody else they did. That wasn’t just in the army. You don’t get that now, no.”<\/p>\n

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The veteran offered a grim assessment of his country’s current state, saying it has “gone right downhill.”<\/p>\n

“I know the population is changing. Some are leaving, and then others are coming who have no understanding or knowledge of what this country was like, not only just its history, but its morals,” he said.<\/p>\n

Mervyn “insists he has ‘no objection’ to genuine refugees fleeing for their lives.”<\/p>\n

The veteran offered somewhat similar pessimistic comments<\/a> after the horrific October 7 attack by Hamas, where he lamented that his efforts in World War II did not stop it. “It was a waste of time. We are going through the same thing again.”<\/p>\n

He did a somewhat more optimistic, but still grim interview more recently this week with the BBC,<\/a> headlined, “Honoured veteran, 101, disappointed with UK.”<\/p>\n

In this interview he argued that while his service “was worth it,” nonetheless, “It’s disappointing what’s turned out now.”<\/p>\n

“What’s disappointing is the antisemitism that I see everywhere, hear everywhere, or read,” the veteran, who has been honored for his talks about the Holocaust, said.<\/p>\n

Other World War II veterans from the UK and US have questioned whether their effort and sacrifice during the war were worth it, after seeing their homelands change dramatically.<\/p>\n

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A 100-year-old British World War II veteran, Alec Penstone was asked in November what Britain means to him. He replied, “My message is, I can see in my mind\u2019s eye, rows and rows of white stones, of all the hundreds of my friends and everybody else, that gave their lives \u2013 for what?” \u00a0<\/p>\n

“The country of today\u2026 No, I’m sorry, the sacrifice wasn\u2019t worth the result<\/a> that it is now.”<\/p>\n

He added, “What we fought for was our freedom \u2013 we fought for it. Even now,\u00a0it’s a darn sight worse<\/a>\u00a0than when I fought for it.”<\/p>\n

Across the Atlantic, an American World War II veteran made similar comments in 2024. As Americans recognized the 80th anniversary of D-Day, veteran Ronald “Rondo” Scharfe\u00a0reflected on his service in Normandy, France, as he spoke to Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum.<\/p>\n

“The real truth?\u00a0I feel like a\u00a0foreigner in my\u00a0own country<\/a>\u00a0lots of times and I\u00a0don\u2019t like it. It makes my heart\u00a0real heavy,”\u00a0he said. “I just hope we can pull out of\u00a0this, there’s too much Hollywood going on in\u00a0Washington all the time \u2014 the important subjects they don\u2019t cover. So I hope all the guys rally up and go back and\u00a0straighten it all out.”<\/p>\n

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