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The 11 day of the 11th month of the 11th year

Tomorrow try and look at your watches at the 11 hour, 11 minutes and 11 seconds.

Never to be repeated in our life time!

Dear Donedigging, i will certainly be doing that.

donedigging wrote:Never to be repeated in our life time!

Dear donedigging

I think that every minute of every day

Nice thought Dundigging, only problem is none of my clocks and watches says the same time since I put the clocks back.

alan refail wrote:

donedigging wrote:Never to be repeated in our life time!

Dear donedigging

I think that every minute of every day

Amen to that...( don't have a watch)

Trouble is we don't remember.
We still let our politicians spend excessively on "defence" and send service people to be killed for nothing. What right have we in a post colonial world to demand regime change in other lands, it is a throw back to Christian colonisation and conversion when we thought we knew better than the savages. Similarly what is the justification for hanging on to South Atlantic colonies? Close all overseas bases and bring the personnel home. Think of the economic benefits, temporary construction jobs to refurbish the camps, permanent ancillary jobs to replace jobs in foreign lands. We'll need them as a Home Guard soon anyway as the under class the welfare state has bred seeks to destroy the last bits of infrastructure, structural and civil.
So let's really remember by saying it won't happen again.

Oh, how I agree, Geoff. I am always very cautious saying my bit, considering my forebears have caused a lot of trouble in Europe and I am fully sympathetic to those who wish to commemorate loved ones, but why continue to send young people into conflicts when there are other ways of resolving them? What a waste.

We must also bear in mind that nowadays, and quite different from World Wars 1 and 2, military personnel are signing up voluntarily.

As an ex-serviceman I remember not just my fallen comrades but my fallen enemies as well. They too were somebodies son or daughter whoever they were.
JB.

Johnboy those are lovely sentiments, and shows just how futile war is. the whole economy needs sorting...our two biggest exports are arms and pharmacology....so we keep getting involved in wars to keep the economy afloat, and treating illness benefits the economy more than health promotion.

I remember the 6th of June 1966. I was at school, Cheers, Tony.

Johnboy wrote:As an ex-serviceman I remember not just my fallen comrades but my fallen enemies as well. They too were somebodies son or daughter whoever they were.
JB.

well said Johnboy x

Johnboy wrote:As an ex-serviceman I remember not just my fallen comrades but my fallen enemies as well. They too were somebodies son or daughter whoever they were.
JB.

How right you are JB.
It should always be emphasised that rememberance is about mourning all of those fallen. I would like the press to work on this.

Eradicating racism would be awesome. Here in Ireland especially..

Dear Marigold, if i could have one wish in life, i think it would be to eradicate racism.

oldherbaceous wrote:Dear Marigold, if i could have one wish in life, i think it would be to eradicate racism.

We can each do it in our own lives...We see so many children adopted in from overseas and in rural areas that is fine until they start school. So many in from Vietnam, where street children are rounded up by police and euthanised.

We trade at markets to fund work with babies overseas. When we were sending to Somalia, one UK man attacked us re how Somalians in London walk about like kings. It was said with such disgust.
Wonder how he thought they should act?
So I said over and over that it is the babies we strive to save,, " A baby is a baby is a baby.. " The man finally accepted that. Surely it all has to start with the children.