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one days I asked him what he did
WW2 not 1 for my grandfather, but much the same reaction when I asked him about that. There probably aren't words to describe it properly. I hope I would have the courage those that willingly went had, regardless of what was behind it all.
rossatease - Member
Had that Harry down here today to open another mawkish example of this country doing the wrong thing, celebrating an event caused by it's slavish obsequeince to the very Monarchy that caused the conflagration, so no i won't be joining you thanks just the same.
My Grandad did his bit, got kicked in the face by a horse struggling with a Gun carriage and disfigured his entire life. He didn't want to go, but it was considered un patriotic and folk who didn't had their lives made unbearable by the masses of servants of a class system that imprisoned the bourgeois.
Nothing to celebrate, nothing heroic about that War and today people are still suffering it's consequence, sometimes the manipulation of events makes me sick to the stomach.
It was our monarchy who invaded Belgium on route to invading France?
That's a remarkable bit of historical revisionism.
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What started out as a thread about remembrance turned into a complete * disaster by a numbe of utter * who are only interested in their own agendas.
there was fighting on a thread about war?
No, I will give it a miss. Do you always mark the anniversary of the start of the war(s)?
Two of my dads uncles were Snipers on the sommes and his father was in the RFC. All survived. Still, none of us can be bothered with this round of tosh.
Do we commemorate all the wars that we've started around the world? We'd be putting the lights out and lighting candles every other sodding day.
Watching politicians commemorate WW1 seems only to harden my resolve to not be a part of it.
All survived. Still, none of us can be bothered with this round of tosh.
Maybe if they hadn't survived you could all be bothered with this round of tosh ?
I am sure that the Royal British Legion, which is behind this round of tosh, speaks for many families who lost relatives.
But not necessarily your lucky family.