The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: GROWLER on August 20, 2010, 05:57:03 PM
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Please, no one liner 'jokes' and inuendos like the last rant I did.
I'll keep my thoughts on this to myself this time though. shutup:
I'll just quietly Explode: by myself.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-11038258
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They should have pissed on her...
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She'd probably enjoy it. What aswamp donkey
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She'd probably enjoy it. What a swamp donkey
lol: lol: lol:
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Not trying to be contraversal but I bet there have been many a serviceman who have paid for such services . ;)
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Not trying to be contraversal but I bet there have been many a serviceman who have paid for such services . ;)
That's not the issue here Royboy. noooo:
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I think the point is that to so many people the war memorials represent history and they know nothing about it. For some,of course, the memorials will always be a target as they are an unguarded representation of our Armed Forces.
As a small boy I was always taken by my parents to Southampton's Cenotaph to watch the parade on Remembrance Sunday. Mum's Dad would be marching in it along with other members of the British Legion. All wearing their medals. Dad would not march but never the less wore his medals to watch the parade ...... But then we also used to stand at the end of a film whilst the National Anthem was played.
Respect for the Monarch and her Forces has long since vanished I'm afraid. I still attend on Remembrance Day and Minor is hoping to take over the playing of the Last Post when the old boy who has done it in the village for years finally blows his last.
Sadly respect for those who have died in the service of their country and our freedoms gets less with each passing year. There are many of today's yoof who have no idea what the War Memorials are there for.
Sadly too there are still some memorials erected after WWI that have never had the local WWII additions made to them and even more where "Right on Left Wing" local councils refuse to add more recent service deaths from Korea, Northern Ireland, Borneo, Cyprus, Aden, 2xGulf Wars etc etc ..... apparently these don't count as real wars.
In this village we get a turn out of about 50 people (From a population of 2300) and yes I'm there with Veteran's Badge and RAF tie proudly displayed.
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We take the Boy to the remembrance in Thornton Hough and make damn sure he knows what it's about. We have the air raid shelter and he has my dad's war diaries. Peeples are ignorant. I think I am a generation out, but who gives a shit.
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I can identify with Snoop's comments . I get slightly embarrassed during the one minutes silence cos although I have the decancy to stand stiill I'm not sure what else to do except to go thro' the motions so to speak . I know that sounds stupid but fortunately I have not lost any family nor friends through hostilities nor have I had the misfortune to experience war so to me it has no emotion at all . Sad but true .
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Just say "Thank You" to those who didn't come back Roy. That is all they would ask.
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How old are you Roy...? rubschin: