A moment's silence for the passing of an old soldier please

[Knipper]

Darned right Biggles, (love the name ) That one seems to have slipped by the media eh? Maybe they're waiting for the century before doing the front page splashes.

[Sailor Steve]

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[Biggles]

Originally Posted by Knipper

Darned right Biggles, (love the name ) That one seems to have slipped by the media eh? Maybe they're waiting for the century before doing the front page splashes.

Hm, they'll bring it on for November 11th, that's my guess.

And thank you, I consider myself proud of being the SubSim forums only true Biggles!

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Knipper

"War - what is it good for? absolutely nothing."

Oh I don't know, fighting tyranny, oppression, fascism, Naziism....

Just because war isn't a pretty thing doesn't mean that there isn't anything noble in it.

[Stealth Hunter]

Lang lebe der Kaiser und Deutschland! Lang lebe Herr Kaestner!

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

Lang lebe der Kaiser und Deutschland! Lang lebe Herr Kaestner!

We have no Kaiser anymore.

No, we have one: Franz Beckenbauer, usually referred to as "Kaiser Franz".

[Knipper]

Originally Posted by Biggles

Hm, they'll bring it on for November 11th, that's my guess.

And thank you, I consider myself proud of being the SubSim forums only true Biggles!

Guess you're right Biggles. Watch out 11/11. Incidentally, i don't remember W.E. Johns writing a book called 'Biggles in the KriegsMarine'. Maybe you should get busy :rotfl:

@mookie, I do think there is something noble about fighting tyranny and opression, it's just that here in the UK, we tend to bang on about it a lot. I guess I'm uncomfortable with some of the accomanying attitudes. I'm embarrassed by the way some football fans taunt germans with chants about Hitler and that sort of thing. Yes we should remember the dead and be grateful for their sacrifice but there's just something about the way it is done in this country that makes me feel uncomfortable somehow.

[bookworm_020]

It's strange to see this debated. In Australia about 20 years ago, numbers of people attending ANZAC marches were dropping, and many were saying that it would be wound up in the near future due to lack of public intrest. Then on the 75th aniversary of the Gallipoli campain, they flew 20 vets back for the dawn service. Since then crowd numbers have been increasing.

The Day is not a celebration of war, it's a day of rememberance, and a reminder of how bad war can be. The fact that the day doesn't celebrate a military victory helps as well.