Did some Yank not film her husband having a heart attack just so she could send it in to their equivalent of You’ve Been Framed?
You should be proud of your Dad mate LRDG and presumably SAS.
I had an Uncle in the Army (never knew him)who alson served in Italy, he was at Monte Casino sbout 100k from Anzio…I’ve been to Anzio beach btw.
There was a picture of him at home when I was a kid, as him and my Mam were very close.
Later on my kids used to point to it and say 'that is Daddy. they were totally convinced it was me. so I obviously got my (good 
) looks from him.
My Granda was in Royal Navy in WW1 and Merchant Navy in the Atlantic Convoys in WW2, I have his campaign medals.
My other Granda was with the RAF as a mechanic, he only got as far as RAF Benson , but that was just the luck of the draw I suppose, but he still did his bit, and I am proud of all 3.
Yeah I would help the animal definitely.
However I would not get so heavily involved in the ins and outs and intricacies of American politics to the point of being so opinionated about it as some on here.
Not a clue btw what you are on about with Stalin… or do you mean Starmer? 
I have got a passing interest in our home politics as that is more relavant to me and mine.
Cheers
The SAS in those days was just a raiding unit, in and out causing mayhem. My Dad’s unit was pretty similar to the LRDG spending months behind enemy lines and reporting on troop movements etc. They also did a fair bit of breaking and entering to steal things of interest. One of the men that was part of this unit was a famous/infamous Glasgow (that’s where I’m from) safecracker called Johnny Ramensky. Johnny was Polish and changed his name to Ramsay when he was “enlisted” in the army for his particular skills (apparently he was in jail and released to join them but that story has never been fully established). As both of them came from Glasgow they were very close and often went on missions together as part of 4 man teams. They remained friends after the war, with Johnny returning to his former occupation and spending a considerable amount of time behind bars. They were both big football fans and used to meet occasionally at games. That was how we found out a little bit of what they did during the war as my Dad had to explain why he was good friends with Scotland’s most notorious safecracker 
. My Dad was awarded the MM but he never said why he got it. He used to say that the inscription “for bravery in the field” was for milking a stroppy cow. During the 90’s I went down to Kew to see what I could find out and got a copy of his citation. In those pre mobile days (for most of us) I was looking forward to showing it to him. Unfortunately I was met at the train station on my return by my brother who told me that our Dad had died that morning so I never got the chance to even show it to him. If you would like to see it I can send you a copy if you pm me your email address.
Yeah thanks mate, I’d be interested to see that.
(Got to admit I aint got a clue how to pm on this ‘‘new’’ site though,… so if anybody would like to fill me in…
(an unfortunate turn of phrase on this particular thread btw, I’m sure there is a long queue )
Good story anyway mate…thanks .
Did you see that tv series about the origins of the SAS?..it was a bit comic book drama tbh, but tbf it did state ‘‘This is not a history lesson’’.
Have you got your Dad’s MM btw?
When I was on the Saigon run in the sixties carrying Avgas, Jet Fuel, Motor Spirit & other white oils, it was the Americans we were most wary of.
AS the most dangerous ship in the convoy up the river, we would always go first, at dawn. Within a short distance, we would overtake the minesweeper.
Luckily, I was only shot at once, at around 3 am on the river bank reading the draft marks after ballasting, being scared of snakes I crouched rather than lay flat on the ground.
Looking in the direction of the shots, I clearly saw the Silhouette of a US soldier (The Vietnamese had different helmets) - WTF ??
Think that might have confused even the yanks
British special forces
I would suppose the logical question is what the hell were you doing there
Working Ledwidge.
British ships supplied most of the fuel for the Yanks in Vietnam
General overview. Donald Trump has been accused of ■■■■, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, including non-consensual kissing or groping, by at least 25 women since the 1970s. In June 2019, writer E. Jean Carroll alleged in New York magazine that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in 1995 or 1996.
I’ve been informed that my email to you did not go through as I was replying with a different email address to that which I am registered on. This email address can get incoming emails but I can’t send them out on it due to it being hacked a few years ago and spamming the world. I should probably change my details on Trucknet. Can you email me on sales@busandcoachparts.co.uk.
I never watched it as I knew that most of it would be a load of ball ox. The very first SAS raid was a complete fiasco and if it hadn’t been for the LRDG taking them in to their next few raids and showing how to operate in the desert they would been disbanded before they achieved anything. To be fair to them though they learned their stuff quickly and managed to make a valuable contribution from there on in.
Even then the Yanks were gung-ho. My Dad never had any time for them and I don’t think many of the British did either.
You e.mailed me?
Nothing in my in box …but afaik you aint got my email adress anyway , unless it shows up on my profile.
I found thr dm bit, but no messages on there either.
You say you are bad with this stuff…trust me, I am worse.
Just got a notification about that. I’ve changed to contents of my post above.
e.mail sent…I hope.
Got it and replied.
Replied to you, assuming you maybe aint received but there was no attachments to your e.mail.
Sorry if this is becoming a saga mate btw
We are really showing ourselves up here.
(Just ignore us and talk amongst yourselves btw. )
The honeymoon is over for Trump, whose every unwitting misstep brings chaos and strife.
If Robert K Merton, the founding father of American sociology, were alive today, he’d be fascinated by the Donald Trump phenomenon. Scarcely more than 50 days into his second presidential term, hapless Trump provides daily proofs of Merton’s universal “law of unintended consequences”.
Rooted in ignorance, error, wilful blindness and self-defeating prediction, Trump’s rash actions produce contradictory, harmful and often opposite results to those he says he wants. The ensuing chaos characterises what may become the briefest honeymoon in White House history.
Boomeranging US tariffs – which are to American prosperity what the Titanic was to ocean travel – are the tip of the unintended consequences iceberg. Defiant foreign retaliation has brought stock market crashes and inflation fears – the exact opposite of what Trump promised voters.
Trump won a mandate to make America great again, not greater – at least, not territorially. After his threats to invade Canada, loyal subjects of King Charles III are up in arms, booing the Stars and Stripes, boycotting US goods and retaliating with their own tariffs. Single-handedly, Trump has revived the fortunes of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party. Under the new “elbows up” leadership of the former Bank of England chief Mark Carney, it has a good chance of winning this year’s election on an anti-Trump platform. That was not the plan.
Likewise, Greenland’s voters, stung by a proposed Putin-style imperialist annexation, told Trump to take a hike last week. They are undecided about independence but definitely reject US (or Danish) domination. Had there been any tea to spare in Nuuk, they would surely have tossed Trump and it into the harbour.
Trump’s Ukraine surrender policy is another calamity. Russia is the aggressor, yet he punishes the victim. US pressure for a ceasefire is all one way – on Kyiv. This is emboldening Vladimir Putin to intensify attacks, notably in Kursk, while stringing muggins Trump along.
The prospective, unintended, consequences of an unjust peace are the undeserved rehabilitation of Russia, de facto amnesty for Putin’s war crimes, a precedent-setting ceding of sovereign territory seized by force, and a deep US-Europe split. So the question arises again: is this really unintended? Whether Trump is a stooge, KGB asset or plain stupid was discussed here last week. Most probably, he has no real idea what he’s doing – or just doesn’t care. How else to explain his belief that proving himself right about tariffs is worth starting a global recession? Or that the ethnic cleansing of two million Palestinians in Gaza can bring peace?
Likewise, Greenland’s voters, stung by a proposed Putin-style imperialist annexation, told Trump to take a hike last week. They are undecided about independence but definitely reject US (or Danish) domination. Had there been any tea to spare in Nuuk, they would surely have tossed Trump and it into the harbour.
Trump’s Ukraine surrender policy is another calamity. Russia is the aggressor, yet he punishes the victim. US pressure for a ceasefire is all one way – on Kyiv. This is emboldening Vladimir Putin to intensify attacks, notably in Kursk, while stringing muggins Trump along.
The prospective, unintended, consequences of an unjust peace are the undeserved rehabilitation of Russia, de facto amnesty for Putin’s war crimes, a precedent-setting ceding of sovereign territory seized by force, and a deep US-Europe split.
So the question arises again: is this really unintended? Whether Trump is a stooge, KGB asset or plain stupid was discussed here last week. Most probably, he has no real idea what he’s doing – or just doesn’t care.
How else to explain his belief that proving himself right about tariffs is worth starting a global recession? Or that the ethnic cleansing of two million Palestinians in Gaza can bring peace?
Simon Tisdall
Meanwhile so it goes on…
A theory on Russia’s view of Starmer in all this.
A lot of what I have ben suggesting all along in fact.
