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17th July 2017, 04:21 PM
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Re: Just dont say your English
##after seeing the cemetries in northern france one after another for mile upon mile any heart will greave i have a photo of my kin same name and initial as mine ...when pat saw it she walked back to the car tearfully it is such a sad thing to see row upon row but the graves are immaculate ...and rightly so.....not forgetting there families left behind ...not much help for them after losing the breadwinnercappy
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17th July 2017, 05:03 PM
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Re: Just dont say your English
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Hi Lewis, my old grandpa used to say the same thing. He served 26 years in the British army. Was from Cookstown NI.
I get across to Cookstown every other year , I love the road racing (motorcycles)and the Cookstown 100 is one of the best , also they make great sausages in cookstown.
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17th July 2017, 05:13 PM
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##after seeing the cemetries in northern france one after another for mile upon mile any heart will greave i have a photo of my kin same name and initial as mine ...when pat saw it she walked back to the car tearfully it is such a sad thing to see row upon row but the graves are immaculate ...and rightly so.....not forgetting there families left behind ...not much help for them after losing the breadwinnercappy
Cappy every new non Brit coming into the UK should be stuck on a bus and taken across to France and taken to the likes of the Menin Gate , Thiepval memorial Normandy beaches etc.Told the history and also be told if you cannot respect the sacrifice and the British way of life DO NOT get back on that bus.
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17th July 2017, 05:48 PM
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##lewis i have always thought allour children in GB should be taken by there schools ....it will make them realise what has been given for them to enjoy a good peaceful democratic life .....cappy
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17th July 2017, 06:14 PM
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Lewis McColl
I get across to Cookstown every other year , I love the road racing (motorcycles)and the Cookstown 100 is one of the best , also they make great sausages in cookstown.
lewis
I have been quite a few times to the TT and that was hairy but after going to see Guy Martin race in Ireland in the 100 cookstown is the most dangerous
tom
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18th July 2017, 06:27 AM
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Go to any war cemetery and you will begin to understand the futility of war.
Went to one in Thailand a few years back, men of all ages and different nations.
Some so young, I saw full grown men cry pitifully when they read the inscriptions.
War is not about who is right, but rather who is left.
Cappy, despite the comments of another you are quite correct when you say the British empire was the worlds greatest , largest and last one. Yes the men from ALL of the UK made this possible.
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18th July 2017, 06:57 AM
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I visited Kranji War Cemetery a massive place in Singapore, many British Merchant Seamenb in there, and the one in Manila, I think up to 100,000 in that one,
What was it all about??
so many lives lost and for what?
I never saw one Politicians name on the stones.
Brian
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18th July 2017, 10:54 AM
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I never saw one Politicians name on the stones. Oh so true Brian , the old saying when young men refuse to fighht there will be no more wars, if only this could happen.
Or old generals never die, just there Privates.
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18th July 2017, 11:14 AM
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Lewis McColl
, also they make great sausages in cookstown.
Is that out of the motorcyclists?
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18th July 2017, 03:52 PM
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Johno in Oz.
I too was there mate. I've never forgot. One inscription gave name, rank, corps and age, seventeen. and below it inscribed "This corner of a foreign field that is forever England" your sister Jean. (from the poem by Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier"). Impossible to see and read that stone without shedding a tear...I did.
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