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Offline Topdad

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LEST WE FORGET
« on: 11.11. 2022 11:09 »
Hope you don't mind.
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Re: LEST WE FORGET
« Reply #1 on: 11.11. 2022 15:00 »
There was a piece on TV this morning about the Falklands debacle. What a terrible shame that so many lives were destroyed over those piddling rocks in the South Atlantic. Maggie Thatcher was partly to blame for that.
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Re: LEST WE FORGET
« Reply #2 on: 11.11. 2022 17:40 »
Why wouldn't the UK fight to protect a British Overseas Territory being invaded by a failing foreign power?
Had no time for Thatcher but she was right in this instance.

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Re: LEST WE FORGET
« Reply #3 on: 11.11. 2022 19:11 »
G'day Fellas.
I was in a shopping center yesterday in the ciggy shop. At 11am the prop turned the lights out and we stood silent for one minute. The rest of the place was business as usual. We both shook our heads.
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Re: LEST WE FORGET
« Reply #4 on: 11.11. 2022 22:26 »
There loss Mate !
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Re: LEST WE FORGET
« Reply #5 on: 13.11. 2022 05:58 »
My son was up visiting and we put down what we were working on and spent our time in silence. Remembered my great uncles and great grandfather from the First World War luckily they all made it out alive. One uncle survived North Africa then the Italian campaign but he was never right with the world. A sad man. All worth remembrance. 
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