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well said peterm I think the op was drawing a comparison between the people that slaughter in the name of religion ie the beheadings bombings and then publicly hide their faces whilst bragging about what they have done and what they are planning in the future,then you have the guys who are not proud of fighting but have fought in wars to provide the blanket of freedom we live under because it was and is their duty.I think his reference to the elderly guy marching head high straight and proud refers to the chelsea pensioners and all those that will say I did it for you and future generations.Today of all days we should remember those that have given their lives for the freedom we enjoy the freedom to speak our minds and we should think about their families that they left behind.
God bless them I will remember them
To be fair one of the best ways to ‘remember them’ is to recognise that there is a time when we have to go to war and a time when we should do everything possible to avoid it.In which case there was no reason whatsoever why we needed to get involved in WW1.Being that we didn’t do everything possible to stop France from supporting Russia,up to and including us backing Germany,in the small localised dispute between Austria and Serbia that kicked it all off.Which then also lead to the circumstances of the slaughter of WW2 on all sides.
Ironically we’re now heading down a similar slippery slope in the case of not staying well out of the small localised dispute between Russia and Ukraine.The resulting potential zb storm of which could make both of those wars combined look like a small pub punch up.
No the best way to remember them is to tell politicians to [zb] off
To not let their life be wasted
We all have one life and these brain dead morons in the “wars” gave theirs so knobs like cameron,blair thathcher,boris,clegg etc can take the ■■■■ out of you and me and send OUR children to die (never theirs)
When are we going to (zb) learn?
If you read my post that is more or less what I said.At least in the case of those who effectively volunteered to follow Churchill in fighting for Russia against Germany in WW1 and/or those who’d volunteer to fight for Eastern Ukraine/Eastern Europe against Russia now.
As for WW2 the ‘brain dead morons’ were all those Germans who were stupid enough to let Hitler push them into going for payback against us and Russia for WW1 and the liquidation of any ethnic group he chose to dislike.At that point ‘our side’ didn’t have much choice and I for one would have been happy to volunteer to do my bit in that case .