What happened
Alec Penstone, a British Royal Navy veteran of World War II, died in May at the age of 101. In one of his final interviews, conducted when he was 100, Penstone appeared on Good Morning Britain and said the sacrifices made during the war were not worth the result.
Penstone told the hosts that he could picture rows of white stones marking the graves of hundreds of friends who had given their lives. Asked what Remembrance Sunday meant to him, he said the country of today had lost the freedom they fought for, and that the sacrifice was not worth the current result.
He had traveled to Normandy in 2024 for the 80th anniversary of D-Day and spent his final years trying to honor fallen comrades. The interview clip drew widespread attention after he stated that Britain no longer resembled the nation for which he and his brothers in arms had risked their lives.