The Last Tommys

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Zbirdy

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I have been following the stories of the last remaining tommys from World War One, (only four men left alive, here in Britain), and it certainly brought a tear or two to my eyes, I dont mind saying.

What a selfish generation we are. We know nothing of the suffering these men and families went through, and yet we moan about a train thats 10 minutes late, or we demand a refund if our mobiles go down. What have we become.

God help us ! :(
 
Zbirdy said:
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I haven't heard of that one before Don. Yes you are absolutely correct though, we have become a nation of whingers but then again there is a lot of things besides trains and mobile phones that are vey screwed up these days.
 
MrG240Z said:
I haven't heard of that one before Don.

Sorry, I meant credit. (I was speaking with an in law recently who works for Orange, and deals with awkward customers, Hmm. You wouldnt believe).
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Yeh I watched all three as well. I like the way the schools used to teach patriotism. I wonder how many people nowadays would volunteer for war like these old boys did, and how many in this country actually care enough about it to do what they did...
 
Very moving Russ wasnt it.
Different era, different values i guess. in my opinion better values back then. Maybe we are wiser today, and they were led by ignorance? who knows.
Either way these men were courageous, and those that wouldnt go over the top to face the enemy, heroes too. God bless them all.
 
I watched the programme on the Somme last night. 60,000 men in one day. Awful.

It's not often I'm lost for words, but those men humbled me.

I watched the cenotaph ceremony on Sunday and sat my 4 year old daughter on my lap. She sat silently through the two minute ceremony (well, ok, she whispered a bit). I want my kids to grow up knowing about their history.
 
I know that I was taught a fair amount about WW2 in school (10 years ago) but WW1 was barely covered. Hopefully they'll continue teaching about it for a long time to come.
 
thiepval

Back in September I took my friend who was researching her family tree to Thiepval in the Somme. Two of her great uncles were killed there, one of them on the first day of the battle. Thiepval was on the front line and there is now a memorial there to the dead who have no known grave.The huge arches of the memorial are inscribed with the names of 73,000 men, a very moving place, the whole area is covered with memorials. Its just over an hour from Calais so if your down that way its worth a look.
 

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That's the thing, we haven't really learnt, and we are supposedly the most intelligent animal on the planet. Never see dolphins, pigs, dogs or sheep having wars.
 
I watched this. It was excellent. I do pride myself on being quite cultural and enjoying/learning about history and things of general historical importance.

So, always glued to the box when programs of this nature appear. Also watched the program about the Somme as well. Another excellent war documentary.

Drove down to Portsmouth a few weeks ago and went to the 'Overlord' museum. I was there for about 4 hours and still hadn't worked my way round everything.

I've just finished watching the 'World at War' series that was screened in the early 80s and reshown about 7 or 8 years ago.

Another one on tonight about Auschwitz. Last of a 3 part series.
 
...another interesting program on at the moment in relation to the Somme. It's about the Red Baron.'Dogfight'.
 
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