Say the first word that comes to mind... (Page 37 of 66)

Einstein–Rosen bridge

John Frost Bridge

Yes. Absolutely.

The last 'word' was... 

...and my reply was, John Frost Bridge.

Which is the Arnhem road bridge in Holland. The restored bridge named after 'Johnny Frost';  Major-General John Dutton Frost.

My grandfather served with the British 1st Airborne Division and was killed on September 21st 1944 in the operation to capture and secure that bridge against overwhelming odds. A small force of lightly armed British paratroopers far behind enemy lines, with only what they could carry in their pockets (they hadn't known that Arnhem had recently been garrisoned by the mighty 9th SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Hohenstaufen). Despite this, and in small bands with scant food, water and ammunition, they held out for nearly a week. Heroism within a foolish mission, a mistake, a massacre, and he and is buried with his comrades in Oosterbeek War Cemetery.

Last weekend I took my old mother from London, England over to Arnhem in Holland so that we could pay our respects at the grave of my grandfather, her father and to remember all of those who fought and died in the battle for that bridge. She's been to Arnhem before; her husband, my father had taken her to the to the remembrance/reunion  event held in late September, a few times over the years. Now that my father has passed away and my mother is into her eighties, she wanted to pay a last visit to her dad's grave. She never knew her father, her mother was eight months pregnant the day he died on that bridge.

So last weekend I stood on 'John Frost Bridge.' Troubled waters? I should say so! Not only the thought of that ferocious battle in 1944, but the fact that although my grandfather was killed by a German bullet; killed trying to liberate mainland Europe from the Germans; over that bridge, as I pondered, poured a constant stream of BMW's, Audi's, Mercedes and Volkswagen cars. Little else. This is a Holland, a Europe that is now totally dominated and governed by the Germans in the political and economical sense, whilst the bloodied ground in Arnhem is now occupied largely by immigrants and migrants from the Middle-East and Africa who seem to hate and despise the indigenous Europeans and who disrespect and desecrate our war memorials. The price of liberalism.

I know that all of this will mean little or nothing to a North American, and I have no wonder that my reflex comment John Frost Bridge in reply to bridge over troubled waters sounds so spurious and meaningless to someone from the American continent that it is deemed worthy of a challenge as to its relevance or legitimacy. However to me, it was truly and emphatically the first word/phrase that came to mind.

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