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TheEarl said:Mine are black. Very boring.
The Earl
I'll bless them any way - but they might be kinda pissed at you for alling them boring!
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TheEarl said:Mine are black. Very boring.
The Earl
TheEarl said:Mine are black. Very boring.
Rora: Hope that's a good drubnk. If not, then enjoy getting away from whatever it is.
The Earl
Trinique_Fire said:Can we make an Earl/EL/Trini sammich?
Aurora Black said:It's a very good drubnk, believe me. And nothing about you is boring.
TheEarl said:They've got a hole in the heel. Try saying the last five words fast, three times. Into a microphone, so we can all hear it. I feel it might be amusing.
The Earl
Aurora Black said:Nope. I'm sobering up already, so it would sound depressingly normal.
TheEarl said:You know what the answer to that is, don't you?
The Earl
SlickTony said:Primed for battle.
matriarch said:I've had my soak in the tub, wife's in their now, I'm off to bed to warm up the sheets....
Night night
You are. I don't even have that.scheherazade_79 said:and there I was, thinking I was lucky to have a hot water bottle.
MagicaPractica said:A little angry and a lot sad.
oggbashan said:When Og was young, many of my father's associates and later the senior staff I knew personally had been active in World War II.
What they did they kept quiet about. Vague hints might be picked up from other people's conversation. The real clues were the medals they wore on Remembrance Day - not the usual ones for everyone in the services but those awarded for exceptional acts.
An elderly neighbour might have an untold story like the builder who had been a major in the Royal Engineers. He was injured on D-Day and back on duty to be injured again while bridge-building across the Rhine. He and his team finished the bridge before he allowed himself to be treated for his injuries.
Then there was my father's friend, a Royal Marine commando, who spent some time in Changi Jail on Singapore Island.
Or my daughter's friend's father, a tank commander on Omaha beach, who landed alone after his tank and crew had sunk beneath him.
Or my office deputy manager who had (woman)manned an Anti-Aircraft gun defending London.
So many people did amazing things in wartime and accepted it as part of normal life. That elderly woman pushing a trolley in a supermarket might have been Rosie the Riveter, or an agent in Occupied Europe, or just a hard working Land Girl.
Few of them are left now. I feel diminished by their passing. They might have said that they had lived through extraordinary times and they did no more than many others did. That is partially true. What is also true is that many of them were ordinary people and after the war all they wanted to do was become ordinary again.
Where are the heroes for the new generation? Those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are so few by comparison with the whole nation at war in WWII. Few modern children will ever meet a soldier and really appreciate what that soldier did for them.
I did. I'm glad I did. But I miss them now.
Og
I have the same feelings; I'm not too far from your age, I fear. ( ) When I was younger I worked with a few of those WWII vets - from both sides, interestingly. One fellow served with a Waffen SS division in Russia, and he did not hesitate to tell some rather horrific stories. Another German had been a tank mechanic. A Yank carried a BAR in the Europe in late 1944. He dropped a few hints and told a few anecdotes that indicated that it was no fun at all, and I think he never really got over the PTSS. He was among the troops involved in the taking of Aachen, the first major German city to fall, which caused 5,000 Allied casualties. Stephen Ambrose said of that battle, "It taught Eisenhower and the Allied leadership an important lesson about street fighting - don't do it."oggbashan said:When Og was young, many of my father's associates and later the senior staff I knew personally had been active in World War II.
What they did they kept quiet about. Vague hints might be picked up from other people's conversation. The real clues were the medals they wore on Remembrance Day - not the usual ones for everyone in the services but those awarded for exceptional acts.
An elderly neighbour might have an untold story like the builder who had been a major in the Royal Engineers. He was injured on D-Day and back on duty to be injured again while bridge-building across the Rhine. He and his team finished the bridge before he allowed himself to be treated for his injuries.
Then there was my father's friend, a Royal Marine commando, who spent some time in Changi Jail on Singapore Island.
Or my daughter's friend's father, a tank commander on Omaha beach, who landed alone after his tank and crew had sunk beneath him.
Or my office deputy manager who had (woman)manned an Anti-Aircraft gun defending London.
So many people did amazing things in wartime and accepted it as part of normal life. That elderly woman pushing a trolley in a supermarket might have been Rosie the Riveter, or an agent in Occupied Europe, or just a hard working Land Girl.
Few of them are left now. I feel diminished by their passing. They might have said that they had lived through extraordinary times and they did no more than many others did. That is partially true. What is also true is that many of them were ordinary people and after the war all they wanted to do was become ordinary again.
Where are the heroes for the new generation? Those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are so few by comparison with the whole nation at war in WWII. Few modern children will ever meet a soldier and really appreciate what that soldier did for them.
I did. I'm glad I did. But I miss them now.
Og
kendo1 said:Workmen coming back? I love the thread.
Nirvanadragones said:Good Morning Lovelies
Today is the day that I get my act together and start working on some serious issues in my life.
I think . . .
nirvanadragones said:I send tons of 's to whomever is remotely interested. I'm in a kissy mood . . .