Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

On the subject of war memorials, I remember my dad talking about visiting the war memorials during the "phony" war period. He had gone into France with Gort's BEF in 1939. Someone mentioned to him that his name was on one of the memorials. "They've prepared it for you Jim"!
They were the brothers of his father, who died in the first world war. James and John from the Kings Regiment, Liverpool.
Dad managed to get out from the straffing of Dunkirk before shipping out to Burma with the Chindits.
I have never managed to visit the memorials but I did find a reference online and printed off a picture.

iturama if you want to see something of the way they fought in the war go to
CALAIS GO TO VIMY RIDGE MOTHER CANADA
GO IN THE TUNNELS

CYNIC have you been to vimy ridge in Calais

Good post iturama!

I spent 2 years their

Bloody Queen on the phone.. yes I know "again" and she is even more "not amused" then usual.

.. I mean really!

Tanker. Like all true pumped up little fuckwits you try to avoid the consequences of the shit you spout. You insult comrades and family of fallen soldiers when you claim they all died in vain. They died in service of their country not in vain. You dishonour them, their comrades and family. Your attitude is shit. I'm bored with you.

Just tell Fred to Fuck Off Stan, simples! :0)

vimy ridge and its memorial are almost terrifying ...... i have visited a couple of times and also seen the trenches though not done the guided tour of them ...... the proximity of the opposing front lines in some places was quite extraordinary

yes about 80 yds apart sheep still being blown up by land mines

labour mp Vicky Kirby suspended again on racism why only her the labour party are all racists

but you're not i take it?
:-)

cynic ever thing to me is black and white no in between
back to vimy in the tunnels did you see the places were they operated on the soldiers to remove bullets terrible

TANK black and white ?

no .... didn't get the chance to do the tour

i find the cemetries hugely sad but compelling to visit ..... it's the symmetry and unbelievable scale of them, even at the smaller sites, and not just WW1 either

btw, i highly commend visiting bletchley park
i thought it would be a bit dull and worth an hour or perhaps two ..... in fact, it's fascinating and you could spend days there


i'ld also like to revisit ellis island

jb and its yes or no , no in be tweens

Oh dear.. how unbalanced.

TANKER , while i am against immigration in huge numbers ,i'm not black or white ,i don't want all the millions of white eastern Europeans coming here as i don't want a million Syrians ,i don't ever think about black or white .I don't care what colour someone is .

and especially not those pesky yids! :-)