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So all the rumours are true then.......{sm2}

Actually he's a **** fine chap mate, but I don't tell him this in case he leads a mutiny among the other UK troopers and I lose my rank in the bar:wink2:

Rob
 
Actually he's a **** fine chap mate, but I don't tell him this in case he leads a mutiny among the other UK troopers and I lose my rank in the bar:wink2:

Rob

Yeah just pulling ya chain Rob mate.........bit concerned about losing ya rank at the bar though....{eek3}
 
Yeah just pulling ya chain Rob mate.........bit concerned about losing ya rank at the bar though....{eek3}

^&grin

Sure am mate, commanding officer gets drinks bought for him.....well thats the theory my friend, but as I often go home sober it doesn't always follow:wink2:

Rob
 
^&grin

Sure am mate, commanding officer gets drinks bought for him.....well thats the theory my friend, but as I often go home sober it doesn't always follow:wink2:

Rob

The only time you go home sober is when it's the following day, after having spent an alcohol induced night sleeping in a London gutter. Or because you've been that drunk, you've got on the wrong train and it's taken 24 hours to return from Glasgow.
Are you trying to drum up support for sainthood? {sm2} :wink2:
 
A word of advice my jedi friend, if you're planning on walking in Jack's footprints ..... mind what you step in! :wink2::tongue:

B.

Follow, my young Wookie companion, follow, not walk.
I elevate and hover. Jedi trick. :wink2:
 
The only time you go home sober is when it's the following day, after having spent an alcohol induced night sleeping in a London gutter. Or because you've been that drunk, you've got on the wrong train and it's taken 24 hours to return from Glasgow.
Are you trying to drum up support for sainthood? {sm2} :wink2:

Too late for that mate, me and the Pope don't get on since I asked him ' What did you do in the War your holiness?' !{eek3}:wink2:

Rob
 
Too late for that mate, me and the Pope don't get on since I asked him ' What did you do in the War your holiness?' !{eek3}:wink2:

Rob

Arrr......I have a vision of Rob and the Pope having a jolly old time in a tavern somewhere......{sm5}
 
funny you mention that doug because whenever i search gettysburg books there are always gb ghost books coming up in results. Devil's den is the ' ghost hot spot ' is it? Nothing to do with that soldier they moved around for the pics was it??i too am not a believer of ghost stories really but i once stood alone in sanctuary wood outside ypre as the sun went down and the wind went through the trees above me and it was quite creepy to be honest.

Rob

i drove my parents there in 1999 and my mom noticed that there were no birds on the conderate side where they launched picketts charge. It was summer time with trees all around and plenty of birds on the yankee side but none down the lane you drive along the rebel side. Pretty strange
 
mitch,

i too have absolutely no interest in starting an argument i'm truly fed up with all that. However i did just go through every single post of mine in my ww1 thread and not once did i say you disrespect the fallen in any way at all.i would never say that about anyone (unless they clearly demonstrated they did) i did think your position on the football on that one sunday was wrong but that is only my opinion and is not the same as saying you disrespect the fallen. I have also said in guy's thread that people are free to remember not remember or not care, again i never said you do not care about the fallen.

As for ww1 books, i've no interest in regurgitated releases such as you describe, i'll be looking forward to totally new tomes such as that by max hastings in september, i have most of his ww2 books and he is a superb author/historian so i'll be looking forward to his first ww1 book.

As for 2014-18 i say it one final time, we are all perfectly free to make our own choices about where when and how we remember. I personally like to sometimes go to our local war memorial, sometimes the cenotaph in london and sometimes on the battlefield itself. I merely raised the whole 100th anniversary thread because its a subject close to my heart and i'm very much looking forward to the events and the opening of the iwm's new ww1 gallery.

Rob

at least you folks over the pond are commerating wwi. Kids under 30 here have no clue about the civil war let alone wwi. As a matter of fact they did a poll here during the london olympics about knowing where london was and over 70% of people under 30 did not know where london is. What a shame. I am sure there are a few marines that know about wwi but other than that, its sad
 
One of the things that got me into building dioramas was to help my niece and nephew understand these conflicts and the parts members of our family played in them.

I was playing so much Star Wars with them and they knew incredible levels of detail about he worlds, races and other stuff that it astounded me.

I thought, is there a way to do the same for them about history.

This led to my first 1/72 diorama of the hedgerow country in France and the part it played in the Normandy invasion. I gave it to him and all the German vehicles and defenders as his Christmas gift. Then the rest of the family provided all of the US and British forces. We spent three hours talking about it. My sister believes it is the only three hour period he has sat still in his entire life. His friends come over and now he provides lectures on it.

This year was Desert Storm where his father fought.

We are already planning next year's of Vietnam where my father (a.k.a. Grandpa) fought.

After this, he will be old enough to help me start building some for my son(s) which hopefully will be on their way by then. Gettin' hitched in a few months.

Have to download the pictures and get them into acceptable format and then will upload them.
 
i drove my parents there in 1999 and my mom noticed that there were no birds on the conderate side where they launched picketts charge. It was summer time with trees all around and plenty of birds on the yankee side but none down the lane you drive along the rebel side. Pretty strange

That is strange!^&confuse

at least you folks over the pond are commerating wwi. Kids under 30 here have no clue about the civil war let alone wwi. As a matter of fact they did a poll here during the london olympics about knowing where london was and over 70% of people under 30 did not know where london is. What a shame. I am sure there are a few marines that know about wwi but other than that, its sad

That is sad indeed. And its not only the very young, I was once approached by a woman who must have been in her thirties with her young kid and she asked me where the Battle of Britain was fought!{eek3}

Rob
 
amazing how many people have no idea about what happened yesterday. there are alot of selfish or self centered people out there that only care about what they can gain from next without any appreciation of what people have done before them to get to this point of having a society of instant rewards
 
amazing how many people have no idea about what happened yesterday. there are alot of selfish or self centered people out there that only care about what they can gain from next without any appreciation of what people have done before them to get to this point of having a society of instant rewards



What happened yesterday? The international "memory day for the holocaust" ( every 27 of january)?
 
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What happened yesterday? The international "memory day for the holocaust" ( every 27 of january)?

How many world leaders can claim a direct link to such a significant day of remembrance -

New Zealand’s Key launches exhibit marking Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 27, 2013

SYDNEY (JTA) -- New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, whose mother escaped Europe on the eve of the Holocaust, launched an exhibition to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Key officially opened "Shadows of the Shoah" in Auckland last Friday, two days before the remembrance day, in front of Holocaust survivors and Israel's ambassador to New Zealand, Shemi Tzur.

Key, who rarely talks about his Jewish upbringing, told about 200 people of his mother's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria in 1938.

The prime minister recalled times his mother was "crying in the corner" after hearing news reports recounting atrocities from the Holocaust, the New Zealand Herald reported.

"People often asked, 'Why is it that I can't speak German?' " Key said. "The simple answer is my mother refused to teach me. She did not want to reflect on her history."

Tzur said the Holocaust "is an issue that is really close to my heart, as it is for many people, and the way New Zealand is taking such a strong interest in teaching about and commemorating the Holocaust is something that should be praised.”
 
How many world leaders can claim a direct link to such a significant day of remembrance -

New Zealand’s Key launches exhibit marking Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 27, 2013

SYDNEY (JTA) -- New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, whose mother escaped Europe on the eve of the Holocaust, launched an exhibition to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Key officially opened "Shadows of the Shoah" in Auckland last Friday, two days before the remembrance day, in front of Holocaust survivors and Israel's ambassador to New Zealand, Shemi Tzur.

Key, who rarely talks about his Jewish upbringing, told about 200 people of his mother's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria in 1938.

The prime minister recalled times his mother was "crying in the corner" after hearing news reports recounting atrocities from the Holocaust, the New Zealand Herald reported.

"People often asked, 'Why is it that I can't speak German?' " Key said. "The simple answer is my mother refused to teach me. She did not want to reflect on her history."

Tzur said the Holocaust "is an issue that is really close to my heart, as it is for many people, and the way New Zealand is taking such a strong interest in teaching about and commemorating the Holocaust is something that should be praised.”

Thanks for posting this mate, the whole Jewish thing is such a sensitive issue at the best of times and as a Kiwi I just didn't want to go there. Cheers!
 
Thanks for posting this mate, the whole Jewish thing is such a sensitive issue at the best of times and as a Kiwi I just didn't want to go there. Cheers!

The impact on Key's mother "crying in the corner" resonated with me. Without detracting from the evil that was the Holocaust, my late maternal grandmother was always scared and often cried during thunder storms. Decades and a "lifetime" after her experiences, storms triggered memories of the terror-bombing that Germany endured. The article also highlights for me the ongoing global impact WWII continues to have.
 
The impact on Key's mother "crying in the corner" resonated with me. Without detracting from the evil that was the Holocaust, my late maternal grandmother was always scared and often cried during thunder storms. Decades and a "lifetime" after her experiences, storms triggered memories of the terror-bombing that Germany endured. The article also highlights for me the ongoing global impact WWII continues to have.

Yeah I can really relate to that mate, as well as family members invloved in WW2, I have a wonderful neighbour who fought through Italy with the NZ Division. He has very vivid images of of the conflict and apart from me, he has never discussed his time away during the conflict with anyone else, least of all his wife of over 70 years......very sad to bottle all that up for so long.
 

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