Thank you.

[ninjarabbi]

Thank you to these men who gave everything they had.

 

[fourteen2two]

Seconded, true heroes

 

[Oldstacker]

I had an uncle, who at 20 years old, was a Royal Marine Cpl & Coxswain of an assault landing craft and made several trips into Sword beach. Sadly, although he survived D Day and the sinking a few days later of his 'parent' ship, he was later KIA when taking a raiding party up a river against the Japanese. He had just turned 21.

Makes you think.....

 

[ninjarabbi]

What does our new 'generation' think of these sacrifices? The Winston Churchill statue in London has yet again been vandalised, on this day of all days.

 

[ninjarabbi]

And now, in London, the police are under attack. On this day.

 

[Barch]

Time for Boris to get tough.

Firstly by laying down the law in very simple terms.

Put troops on the streets to back up the Police.

Sack the commissioner of the MET for being incompetent.

 

[ninjarabbi]

Time for Boris to get tough.

Firstly by laying down the law in very simple terms.

Put troops on the streets to back up the Police.

Sack the commissioner of the MET for being incompetent.

I’m thinking 2 Para with baseball bats (and I’ll tell them the entire crowd called them ‘craphats’).

 

[Oldstacker]

What does our new 'generation' think of these sacrifices? The Winston Churchill statue in London has yet again been vandalised, on this day of all days.

I don't think many of them understand the concept of self-sacrifice; they seem to be all about protesting to make someone else (government mainly) do 'something' without actually knowing what it is that should (or, more importantly, could) be done.
Unfortunately, governments can't change peoples mindsets, or force a minority of people to accept what most people accept - racism is wrong - and protests such as we are seeing at the moment are unlikely to help either.

 

[ninjarabbi]

Although it’s not amusing in the slightest, the police officers being attacked now were earlier ‘bending the knee’ for these people. No doubt they thought they were joining in whatever cause these morons think they’re supporting. History however shows that kneeling is something the vanquished do.

 

[vim_fuego]

First ever SSAFA case I did was a gent in North West London who was a Para in WW2. He got hit by a grenade and evacuate back to Blighty to recver. During our first meeting he brought out a cigar box and said 'hold out your hand'. I foolishly did (Like I should know this is similar to 'pull my finger') and he tipped metal shards and fragments into my hand. 'This was taken out of me....this was the greande on D-Day that got me'... Ewwww I thought but smiled and nodded...then he said 'Got me right in the ar$e they did'....Double eeeeeew I mentally screamed and tipped them back in the box.

Ass shrapnel....but I got him a stairlift anyway.