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The last tommy
Sheddy:
At a club I belong to we have a meeting on the second Wednesday of November (today) every year. We call this meeting "Poppy night". At the meal there is traditional fare, beer on the tables and wartime songs before, after and between courses. The food is served on tin plates, the tea and coffe in tin mugs ... the mugs are for banging on the tables! Its a raucous meeting and damn good fun. All the proceeds from a collection and raffle go to the R.B.L. Poppy appeal.
The point of it is this .... firstly, to remember those the fell in order that we can behave in such a manner and second, more importantly, to celebrate that we won (a point often forgotten), and that those who fell did not make the ultimate sacrifice in vain.
Grumpy:
Compelling television, really makes you think what they went through, going over the top six times and still here to tell the tale, beyond beleif!!
vtrdaz:
i agree - totaly compelling T.V.
Over the last couple of years the first world war has really interested me.
If you really want to see first hand what the trenches were like , i can recommend a trip to "Sanctury wood " near ypres in belgium.
It's an area of trenches that have been left exactly how they were when the war finished - tunnels and all.
There is also really good museum there too with thousands of photographs that really brings home the horrors of that war.
Bishops Finger:
Tank Museum at Bovingtons got some good exhibitions as well
Siecroz:
Doing what I do for a hobby/vocation I was collecting for the RBL all weekend last week, and possibly this Saturday too depending on whether or not I have the Boy with me. And then I will be on Parade through the streets in Northampton Town Centre on Sunday morning.
I watched the last tommy last night, and it was really a moving program. Rememberance has a different meaning for everyone. For me, I remember two people. My Grandad, who although he did not die in WWII, he served and was injured in france when a german grenade threw him off an AK-AK gun position on a roof. He left the Army as a Sergeant Major. But rememberance day also is for all wars too.. A good friend of mine whom I grew up around was the first to be killed in the latest Gulf conflict.
Programs like the Last Tommy are amazing in the way that they portray average blokes and the horrors that they have to go through. During WWI they used Mustard Gas on the troops. 70 years later during the late 1980's Saddam Hussein used the same thing on the Kurds and that was classed as a war crime. The world was horrified, yet not many people are shocked at its use in WWI.
Right... going to shut up now.. incase you havent guessed already I get kinda passionate about stuff like that, and tend to go off on a tangent :)
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