What the fuck has it got to do with you?
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What the fuck has it got to do with you?
I don't know if you are as unpleasant and unattractive a man as your posts suggest; I'm sure there must be somewhere else that would value your contributions more than we do.
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Judging by your posts, no more than yourself, I’d wager.
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Remembrance Sunday is not just about the first war, nor the second.
Its about all those that died in all conflicts including those that died this year.
How is that 'in the past' ?
If there are folk that lost someone at Ypres - then its relevant to them.
If there are folk that lost someone at Normandy - then its relevant to them.
If there are folk that lost someone at Goose Green - then its relevant to them.
If there are folk that lost someone at Mosul - then its relevant to them.
If you're not interested, then fine, but I strongly suggest you simply keep your mouth shut.
This is a topic that generates strong feeling and long memories.
Its about all those that died in all conflicts including those that died this year.
How is that 'in the past' ?
If there are folk that lost someone at Ypres - then its relevant to them.
If there are folk that lost someone at Normandy - then its relevant to them.
If there are folk that lost someone at Goose Green - then its relevant to them.
If there are folk that lost someone at Mosul - then its relevant to them.
If you're not interested, then fine, but I strongly suggest you simply keep your mouth shut.
This is a topic that generates strong feeling and long memories.
In Lewes, there was a remembrance event in true Lewes style.
235 men and one woman walked to the war memorial with a burning torch to represent someone who had died in WWI from the town and who was named on the war memorial. Each person walked from the house the person lived in and when all 236 were at the memorial, their name, date and cause of death and age at death were read out, at which point the person representing them doused their flame and disappeared behind a cordon of women wearing black, who represented the people left behind. It was an incredible and powerful tribute to those who lost their lives in an utterly pointless and brutal war.
Here's what it looked like:
235 men and one woman walked to the war memorial with a burning torch to represent someone who had died in WWI from the town and who was named on the war memorial. Each person walked from the house the person lived in and when all 236 were at the memorial, their name, date and cause of death and age at death were read out, at which point the person representing them doused their flame and disappeared behind a cordon of women wearing black, who represented the people left behind. It was an incredible and powerful tribute to those who lost their lives in an utterly pointless and brutal war.
Here's what it looked like:
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Fine but it should not be a government supported national thing - time to let that side of it go and leave it to personal remembrance.
Fuck off.
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In Lewes, there was a remembrance event in true Lewes style.
235 men and one woman walked to the war memorial with a burning torch to represent someone who had died in WWI from the town and who was named on the war memorial. Each person walked from the house the person lived in and when all 236 were at the memorial, their name, date and cause of death and age at death were read out, at which point the person representing them doused their flame and disappeared behind a cordon of women wearing black, who represented the people left behind. It was an incredible and powerful tribute to those who lost their lives in an utterly pointless and brutal war.
Here's what it looked like:
Wow !
Now
Only on UKGSer could individuals denigrate something so emotive and personal to others in such a way that the whole thread becomes disrespectful to the concept of remembrance.
No matter what your view or opinion on this, there was no need for this thread to go the way it has and those who have contributed argumentatively, negatively or otherwise should be ashamed.
The OP should close this thread
I agree with Auwyn 
Really really fuckoff and keep fucking off you worthless cretin.
Really really fuckoff and keep fucking off you worthless cretin.
It must definitely be a government thing, as they're the ones that decide if the armed forces put themselves in danger.
Let them remember, so they think twice about whether it is right for people to give the ultimate sacrifice for them, their monarch and their country.
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But they never do learn, do they?
Hang on a tad . Just because so mAny people believe in this doesn’t mean other people cant have opposite views , and as soon as you want to silence the opposition you are killing free speech which is exactly whAt you guys who do this remembrance stuff say that’s what these soldiers died for
and also this forum would be worthless !!
You are free to express opinion elsewhere.....not on a thread such as this. But we wouldn't expect the huntingdon prick to understand the difference....he's just a gobby ****.
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Depressing reading these two idiots.
Great photos from OP and Auwyn.
Great photos from OP and Auwyn.
Show me the forum rules where it says that .
Also that hateful language is exactly what these poor bastard soldiers fought against . Don’t you see the hypocrisy of your post ??
Show me the forum rules where it says that .
Also that hateful language is exactly what these poor bastard soldiers fought against . Don’t you see the hypocrisy of your post ??
This is a forum . A forum is exactly that to express your views with free speech . Views wether you like them or not it’s a forum . If that upsets you you’re in the wrong place
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Hang on a tad . Just because so mAny people believe in this doesn’t mean other people cant have opposite views , and as soon as you want to silence the opposition you are killing free speech which is exactly whAt you guys who do this remembrance stuff say that’s what these soldiers died for
People are welcome to their views
We can argue the merits of war and the accuracy of and lessons lessons from history as it is our right
My point is that to turn this thread into a slagging and trolling fest is unwarranted
I have no argument either way as to peoples feelings ( mine are probably easily worked out) but whichever side of the remembrance fence you sit, respect is due.
Show me the forum rules where it says that .
Also that hateful language is exactly what these poor bastard soldiers fought against . Don’t you see the hypocrisy of your post ??
If you...or he...need 'rules' to understand where and when to express opinions that run counter to the sentiment of a thread, then you deserve each other you arrogant shit.
Completely agree. Want to discuss Govts sending men to war? start a thread.
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Great post Auwyn, didn't know that had been their 'remembrance' in Lewes (?) Powerful, poignant, fitting.
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