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Rodders mate, I have stood there and seen grown men cry when they see the ages of some young men.
Happy daze John in Oz. Life is too short to blend in. John Strange R737787 World Traveller
Me too, and including me. Men too have tear ducts. Rodders
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When I worked For John I Jacobs , think it was John H who used to come to ships to visit and was very sociable . He got on talking to me one day about his time in the British Army.Anyhow he was taken as a POW and spent the rest of the war in one of the German camps in Poland . They never found out he was of Jewish origin and he was in no hurry to advertise it, he was a survivor , good on him. JS
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Rodders, there is another similar Cemetry in South Korea. We were there back in 2019, it is one of the best laid out military one to be seen. Cared for by the UN troops. Sections for all the countries with dead buried there. A small house shows video of some events of the war there, and i saw men there cry, I was one. There is a USA soldier buried there, sent to join his division only a couple of weeks of being married. His wife never remarried and plans for her ashes to be interred with him when the time comes. There is another similar grave where the ashes of a brother have been added to the grave of a UK soldier.
Yes JS, the brits were always abit more supportive to Palestine than Jew. On my only visit to Tel Aviv in about 1955, we took a trip to Bethlehem, and on the way saw many burnt-out British army vehicles, blown up by Jews not Palestinians. The Jews introduced home made road side bombs to the world.
Britain tried to stop the influx of jews from war torn Europe. No doubt there was a plausible reason for it. But reasons given time all change. The jews in the past have had to fight hard for what they have today and are not going to hand back on a platter. JS
Originally Posted by Colin Wood Yes JS, the brits were always abit more supportive to Palestine than Jew. On my only visit to Tel Aviv in about 1955, we took a trip to Bethlehem, and on the way saw many burnt-out British army vehicles, blown up by Jews not Palestinians. The Jews introduced home made road side bombs to the world. We must not confuse the appellations Jew,Israeli, and also Zionist. There are many Arab- Israelis ,of Palestinian extraction, living peaceably in Israel.|not just in the West Bank or occupied territories Palestinians ,are for the most part followers of Al*ah ,with all the characteristics and baggage that accompanies any specific religion,which unfortunately includes a terrorist element. One can not blame the Israelis for their annoyance at the British for thwarting their right( as much as anybody's right in that region) to establish a state,especially after the holocaust and Jewish exodus from Europe. The British,as we all know from history,can be very bullish and heavy handed when it comes to laying down the law in other countries they have occupied. The Palestinians--don't forget amongst the many innocent women and children(aren't they always?) there are well-known terrorist organisations and factions. Back in the torrid times of the Mandate,they must have been made up to have the British 'keeping an eye out 'for them against the Israelis. A few years later their Arabness' came to the fore and they would not hesitate to kill the any non-Arab,that is Christian or Jew ,just because they did not,and do not,share their ideals.... Yes,I know Israel and it's people,Jew and Arab quite well and can see both sides of the argument.A pity that many can not ,and like your posting seem to be biased one way or the other. My last visit was 15 years ago now,and ,just as was seen back in 1955,there were still occasionally carcasses of roadside bombings -not of tanks or British military equipment,but of civilian buses .Not by Israelis,but by Palestinian terrorists this time. It will never end.
I did read somewhere many years ago that Churchill was one of the men who suggested the establishment of the state of Israeli. Not sure how true this is but think it was around 1948.
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