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Tony
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Posted: June 24 2006 at 10:23pm |
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The Last Post will sound across the UK and on the battlefields of the Somme this week to mark the 90th anniversary of one of the bloodiest moments in British history.
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In October, 1915 after several months of preparation in England, men of the 36th (Ulster) Division sailed across the Channel and began to disembark in France. The soldiers, drawn from all parts of the nine counties of Ulster, had previously trained at Finner Camp in Donegal, Ballykinlar in County Down, and the Clandeboye Estate near Bangor. All were volunteers with an overwhelming majority of them in their late teens and early twenties and, while many perhaps sought adventure and a chance to see some of the world beyond the confines of their own home towns and villages, they believed absolutely that their cause in going to war to free France and Belgium from German oppression and invasion was just and honourable. Edited by Cookie Monster - June 24 2006 at 10:59pm |
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A Terrible example of senceless life wasteage ! Some thing that should
have been a lesson to all countries ! It would seem that Mankind is the
slowest of all learners!
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shotgunminister
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Just remember WWI started over the assination of ONE man.
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hoadie
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No it didn't. The assissination of the ArchDuke was the Last act in a long "fuse" of incidents, leading to the the final powder keg. (Dont forget - the ruling class during that period, were all related! The royalty were fighting cousin vs cousin from they're palaces...But the butcher's apprentice from Berlin was expected to kill the butcher's apprentice from London) The underclasses do the bleeding, the royalty gets the spoils. Nasty business. Hoadie |
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Fighting is natural, the only difference between us and animals is that we fight in large quantities.
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Hoadie can not forget the sinking of the Lusitania by U-20? Cookie Monster |
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Tony
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Animals don't fight to kill and maim sonny ! Read you basic wildlife books and watch you local wildlife. They fight to determine the strongest, that means the breeding line has the best chance of survival because it has the better gene pool. ( I'm not talking Levis either hoadie!!). The loser leaves the scene of conflict with his tail between his legs and little harm is done to either animal. Man is the only animal to kill for fun and devise more lethal and efficient weapons to do the job. Animals use what nature provides them with. If fighting is natural how come Dave and I don't want to see any more of it? We both had a belly full hunting the most dangerous animal alive! MAN!!!! |
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White Rhino
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very well put Tony; ya hit dead bulls eye on that one!
&nbs p; &nbs p; &nbs p; &nbs p; The 'White Rhino" |
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"White Rhino"
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Tony
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Nope mate never heard of an animal being a serial killer. They kill to eat. Yeah your history is pretty good. Interstingly enough my lad went on one of the school trips round the WW1 cemetaries. He found 3 of my relatives names on one roll of honour. My grandad came back injured in the only 1 of the 4 to survive.
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Rottie (PitBulls dad.)
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My great grandfather was denied entry to the Army in WWI.(They didn't want "indians") He tried 3 or 4 X.
He used to get letters from his friends that did get in. After Vimy Ridge - the letters stopped. Not one of his mates came back from Vimy. He always told me,"maybe racism isn't such a bad thing, after all.Cause if they had of taken me, I wouldn't be here now, & neither would you." Hoadie |
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I'm kinda lucky guys my Dad made it back physically, but the deamons(as
he called them) were dug in deep,when he drank the rage came out, so my
mom said. thats if you can believe her. I've got to the point that i
don't, but i do believe my Older brother. His form(My Dad) of
punishment after 13 was a fist insted of a belt.
My father was a Marine, he Island hoped from one conflict to another, till they got to Japan for the Occupation. The kills that he made, I will never know of but a few.That i will never talk about, as i promised. for the privaliege to hear the horror... wich was not a privaliege in retrospect. but as he said," there are a lot of fatherless children because of him". I have never seen the carnage that my father has but the little that i have has given me plenty of respect for the Man that Fatherd Me. there is history hear that im not going into for personal reasons. but has to do in part with perhaps half the decision to join the army instead of the Marines. My father turned out to be a good man,and it doesnt matter if it comes from me. i just wish i had the time to spend with him before he past away. I'm thankfull he got to see his grandchildren; just wish my boy could of got a chance to go hunting with his grandad, or probably i wish i could. what ever im saying or feeling right now, just remember do what you can and visit your parents or friends or who ever means something to you, the hell with what ever you think is more important. take the time, visit them and enjoy the time left. The "White Rhino" It will disapear believe me It will |
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War is a funny thing. Those who come back on the bus are just as damaged as those who come back in a box. I must conlude that the human cost of war is such that war is not to be taken lightly. Every soldier is a casaulty of war. |
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MATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There ain't nothing natural about fighting ! esp when it's just to a please some Money hungry Bastard's whims ! That's what any conflict boils down to ! Conflict makes money !!!!! It's the poor bastard who only wants to get the job done & go home that suffers ! Everybody thinks their fighting the good fight & at the end of the day The people who supply everything needed to keep a conflict going sit down & count their profits ! Total waste of time & bloody effort Dave |
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