A hero? a Survivor, fascists

I have just returned from visiting one of my former work mates he's been retired for a few years
I call him the luckiest man alive, as a child his mother did not want him so an Aunt took him to Portsmouth

Aunt "Do you like the big ships John"

John "Yes Auntie"

So in 1938 at the age of 13 he was put in the Royal Navy, now in 1940 they were taking drafts for the ships and they were taking them underage {from the peacetime sea entry time} and they were told "Here are your ships, if you don't like the ship you have got swap among yourselves. But everyone must go to a Ship"
The Ship he got was at Portsmouth so he swapped for a ship at Chatham closer to where his family lived

It was a Town Class light cruiser the Sheffield that he went to at Chatham

The Ship at Portsmouth was the Hood

do a Google on HMS Hood and see why he's the luckiest man alive

He also went to Korea which brings me to the next part.

In the 1980's one of the worlds remaining Battleships USS Missouri came to Sydney I asked him if he would like to visit it his reply was "Nah I followed it around in Korea"

I braved the crowds and went on board and looked at the brass plate where the Japanese signed the surrender of WW2 the end of the Greater East Asian Co Prosperity Sphere.

By the time I had got to the deck the crowds waiting to go on board were about 10000 people {according to the papers later} The mounted police were passing amongst the crowds
"GO HOME YOU WILL NOT GET ON THE MISSOURI TODAY, GO HOME YOU WILL NOT GET ON THE MISSOURI TODAY" that was the message broadcast to the crowd

From my vantage point on the deck my attention was drawn to a man in the vast crowd who was struggling with a toddler in each hand, his little neat goatee beard and wire framed glasses marked him out to me as an intellectual this was later confirmed when a few moments later he screamed at the Police "FASCIST PIGS" It probably was the drug flashbacks to his university student protest days, a great example for his children

University Definitions

FASCIST; One who does not let me do what I want, One who prevents me from exercising my free will, Any authority figure from the establishment or person who disagrees with me. see also NAZI.

Fascist is a very broad term a great label used to attach to the right side of politics, however a closer examination of Mussolini's Fascist agenda and that of Mosley has lead me to form the opinion that they were leaning towards the left rather than the right.

National Socialism is an other matter altogether it must be taken as a distinction from National Socialist ideals. IE; socialism as an appendage to a nationalist identity Viz Cuba & China