Lets never ever forget :(

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
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Message Posted:
29/10/2011 22:42

Such brave men and women who suffered so much. The last survivor now a peace.



My Father being one of the many Auschwitz survivors..Like them all a remarkable man.One of the Best.XX



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2054938/Peter-Storie-Pugh-dead-Last-1940-Colditz-heroes-dies-91.html



http://remember.org/komski/



Remind our children and our children's children.



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Sid447


Joined: 15/05/2009
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
30/10/2011 12:49

Such amazing,



& very moving stories from the concentration camps spider.



Have read some books, visited Belsen (was stationed nearby with the military at the time) and also visited Dachau, Munich.

The pictures and places stay in the mind a long time.

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
30/10/2011 19:45

Thanks I just felt that this very last survivors passing should at least deserve our prayers and thoughts.







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ang1706


Joined: 28/01/2009
Posts: 570

Message Posted:
30/10/2011 20:04

Very true Spider, great post and although they are thinning out in numbers may they enjoy the remainder of their lives that were unfortunately shattered by the Nazis.



Remembrance Sunday is 2 weeks today and a lovely post to lead onto the not forgotten.

pc4854


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 243

Message Posted:
31/10/2011 07:25

281 viewings and only three responses. That in it's self says a great deal about the thanks the newer generations think they owe to all those brave men and women, who gave their all, so that future generations could live in freedom and have good lives. Look at how it has all degenerated now, would they still be so willing to have made those sacrifices, if they could have looked into the future, probably they would because they were those sort of persons. Bless them all, every single one of them, for we will never see the like of them again.

itfc1978


Joined: 31/03/2009
Posts: 187

Message Posted:
31/10/2011 08:33

Why do you feel there is a need to respond to everything you read on here?



I think you do our young Service Men and Women a great disservice as they serve with courage in various conflicts around the World now.



Hope you are wearing your Poppy with Pride

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
31/10/2011 08:54

Let us not forget the British were amongst the first to use concentration camps... http://www.google.com.tr/search?q=boer+war+concentration+camps&hl=tr&nord=1&biw=1024&bih=677&site=webhp&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=XUWuTs2RMOPm4QTDtIjyDg&sqi=2&ved=0CD0QsAQ

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
31/10/2011 09:01

Will they be home this Christmas..I have a Nephew fighting today..Please dear God he remains safe.And they do get home this Christmas back to loving arms.



http://www.google.com.tr/search?q=afghanistan+war&hl=tr&rlz=1C1DVCP_enTR446TR446&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&soure=univ&sa=X&ei=V0SuToiHGomChQfUmNjODw&ved=0CEAQsAQ&biw=1034&bih=687&sei=%20kUWuTsnFPMHh4QTWw-TwDg



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Enrico


Joined: 07/12/2008
Posts: 209

Message Posted:
31/10/2011 09:14

To be reminded of Auschwitz brings back sad memories, because my father died in Auschwitz.

























He fell out of a watch tower, while drunk.

martinD41


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Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
31/10/2011 10:50

For our Brave Men present and Past.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGpwKQo5_Z0&feature=related

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
31/10/2011 13:55

With thanks.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooDrCr-8ALI



http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/c1171/index_4.shtml





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MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
31/10/2011 15:19

ps4854- I agree with Msg 6 - what do you expect people to say? One thing (no written response) doesn't mean another (couldn't care less).



Msg 7 - I am shocked - having just looked it up - that part of history had thus far, escaped me - yet we as a country, often take the moral high ground where Concentration camps are concerned - how on earth could humans let children, women, men, get in such an emaciated condition? unconscionable...

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
31/10/2011 23:18

Some may find these links interesting. If not do not open..I too agree that such things as this do not always need to receive a response. Just to read and give them all a moments thought.



http://www.powtaiwan.org/index.php



http://www.bfbs.com/news/england/first-hand-accounts-serving-personnel-displayed-imperial-war-museum-52906.html



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spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
31/10/2011 23:33

last one for now but if you would like to find more links of interest too..please post..



http://www.angellpro.com.au/women.htm





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Wear your poppy with pride and lets never forget.

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
01/11/2011 14:03

msg 14..."Lets never forget".... it seems Amnesia in the UK is a growing trend...take a look at this and tell me the UK is a place to be proud of!! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055899/Sacred-memories-sold-scrap-Clampdown-dealers-encourage-pillage-war-memorials-demand-police.html

spider


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Message Posted:
01/11/2011 14:14

martin yes I did read this and it very appalling indeed..Its the minority of unwell/sick people !



http://postimage.org/image/fgjo8scyf/





Most people with not let the get away with it..or stop remembering !





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spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
01/11/2011 15:04

Another interesting website and good reading.





http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/c54696/gallery/





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spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
01/11/2011 15:23

The brave of today.



http://britisharmy.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/the-children-are-full-of-the-same-energy-and-vitality-as-those-many-of-us-have-left-behind/







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girne 29


Joined: 06/12/2007
Posts: 1488

Message Posted:
01/11/2011 17:09

The tragedy is that we DONT remember, or only when its suits.



We are hypocrites, we talk about remembering , so that ,for example the Holocaust will never happen again ,and then cleanse from our souls the fact that we have allowed it to happen again and again since 1945, Biafra ,Congo, Vietnam,Rwanda, East Timor,Yugoslavia,Iraq. probably someones holocaust every 5 years. But its all right ,we wear a poppy once a year ,the same poppy that Blair wore while allowing UK to take part in an illegal war in Iraq that has seen half a million civilians and 5000 soldiers from US and elsewhere die.

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
01/11/2011 20:30

Todays news from todays war...Kandahar.



http://surgar.net/english/





Lets hope they are back home by Christmas.





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DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
01/11/2011 20:35

Msg 19, Girne_29: Well said, you are so right.

spider


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Message Posted:
01/11/2011 20:40

Our thoughts are of the troops they do their jobs, proud men and women.



The years pass but still remember and not just once a year !





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spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
02/11/2011

Hear the new Poppy Appeal new single out now sung by Robin Gibb..



Its at the bottom of the page,just push play



http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/news/poppy-appeal/poppy-single-debuts-at-number-one



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spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
02/11/2011 16:11

Please close this thread now as we have another one running but before you do please folks find time to look at this last link..



The Average British soldier.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWsf76wG78g&feature=related



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suelaura


Joined: 01/11/2011
Posts: 19

Message Posted:
02/11/2011 17:16

a very moving read and very interesting .

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
06/11/2011 20:09

Thank you suelaura.BTTT just for some others that might find some of the links interesting too.



Least we forget.



http://postimage.org/image/nk557kajr/





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hameln


Joined: 06/11/2011
Posts: 22

Message Posted:
06/11/2011 20:23

Will always remember seeing the last interview with harry patch ,our last WW1 survivor when being interviewed outside wells cathedral by some smarmy politically correct BBC propagandist who asked harry for his thoughts on the war and the reply startled him,ha. He was expecting some drivel about democracy and defeating the evil hun but harry simply stated the truth that war was nothing but 'organised murder'. He died a short while later. Nice one harry.

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
06/11/2011 20:26

hameln did you look at the very first link in post 1 I so hope you did.







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newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
07/11/2011 10:22

Just as an aside; only MartinD41 and DC live or come from a place that was under the good old German jackboot in WW2.



So presumably that makes their views on conflict particularly salient, with that in mind was the sacrifice made by the British Empire troops along with the USA, Russians, and Poles, which eventually secured their freedom, worth it?



It has long been acknowledged that the coralling of women and children in South Africa was an inhuman mistake, but in the 'fog of war' these things happen. (this is not a mitigation) ask the Dutch about Srebrenica. Of the examples from girne 29 only one was down to the UK, the rest go to mittel europe, Belgium, France, Germany, the USA and the Aussies, and Indonesia. Religion, tribalism, and political blundering or dogma, all played their part

spider


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Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
11/11/2011 10:19

Least we forget..



We will remember them all.



http://postimage.org/image/jyfhu3fzd/





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