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Seeing a load of far right types tweeting a veteran on TV without realising he’s talking about them is bad enough, but that. It’s not even crass is it? Just completely offensive to anyone surely?
"British Asian families urged to share stories of ‘greatest generation’ who fought for Britain
Half of UK public unaware of contribution made by 2.5m British Asian members of armed forces who served in second world war"
I’m not.
Their sacrifice extended to WW1 too. Back to WW2, people don’t realise how the Japanese threatened India and the surrounding region. The fighting was desperate and the conditions beyond awful. The bravery of so many was limitless.
People from all over what is now the Commonwealth served everywhere in every capacity in all branches of the services including the RAF. However the far East campaign is very much the forgotten war and really shouldn’t be.
There is a reason why the the Commonwealth War grave headstone is designed as it is. It is for all faiths and for all those that died in the cause of freedom whether Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Sikh or whatever.
The people of the greatest generation should never be forgotten. Certain people in this world, including animals like Putin and inflated nut jobs like Trump would do well to remember it.
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How can they justify this? on 09:22 - Nov 10 with 618 views
How can they justify this? on 09:02 - Nov 10 by Churchman
I’m not.
Their sacrifice extended to WW1 too. Back to WW2, people don’t realise how the Japanese threatened India and the surrounding region. The fighting was desperate and the conditions beyond awful. The bravery of so many was limitless.
People from all over what is now the Commonwealth served everywhere in every capacity in all branches of the services including the RAF. However the far East campaign is very much the forgotten war and really shouldn’t be.
There is a reason why the the Commonwealth War grave headstone is designed as it is. It is for all faiths and for all those that died in the cause of freedom whether Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Sikh or whatever.
The people of the greatest generation should never be forgotten. Certain people in this world, including animals like Putin and inflated nut jobs like Trump would do well to remember it.
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This great and poignant song written by Eric Bogle is about an Australian maimed at Gallipoli. As I suggested yesterday, the Scots do melancholy well.
He was also the writer of No Man's Land, better known as the Green Fields of France.
According to Bogle "It's a song that was written about the military cemeteries in Flanders and Northern France. In 1976, my wife and I went to three or four of these military cemeteries and saw all the young soldiers buried there." And he gave the soldier an Irish surname because the one in question rhymed with graveside and to counter then anti-Irish sentiment.
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How can they justify this? on 09:56 - Nov 10 with 537 views
How can they justify this? on 09:22 - Nov 10 by DJR
This great and poignant song written by Eric Bogle is about an Australian maimed at Gallipoli. As I suggested yesterday, the Scots do melancholy well.
He was also the writer of No Man's Land, better known as the Green Fields of France.
According to Bogle "It's a song that was written about the military cemeteries in Flanders and Northern France. In 1976, my wife and I went to three or four of these military cemeteries and saw all the young soldiers buried there." And he gave the soldier an Irish surname because the one in question rhymed with graveside and to counter then anti-Irish sentiment.
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I’ve been to Tyne Cot and a few others. I actually took my mum out there many years ago, as her father served in WW1. Sadly the wrong bit as he served in the Somme/Armentiere area of France rather than Belgium, but she got the drift.
Visiting those cemeteries is something everyone should do. It’s a definition of sacrifice and how random it was. All ages, ranks, pot luck whether you survived, died or were damaged for life by it.
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How can they justify this? on 11:27 - Nov 10 with 415 views
"British Asian families urged to share stories of ‘greatest generation’ who fought for Britain
Half of UK public unaware of contribution made by 2.5m British Asian members of armed forces who served in second world war"
And as well as those from "the Empire/Commonwealth", without the Polish, Czech, and Slovakian pilots (fighting in inferior, poorly armoured (initially), Hurricanes because the British Public Schoolboys had to be given the superior Spitfires, obviously) we would have lost the Battle of Britain.
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