" Lest We Forget" 11th. of the 11th

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Amen

Sat, 2023-11-11 11:15

 Amen

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Amen

Sat, 2023-11-11 14:32

 Can never forget

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 Took two grandfathers I

Sun, 2023-11-12 11:01

 Took two grandfathers I never got to meet. Amen.

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Family

Sun, 2023-11-12 11:10

 Both grandfathers survived France in the first world war and father and his brother went to New Guinea only father returned, my name sake was killed on the Kokoda Trail. I missed on the Vietnam lottery but quite a few mates went and all came back sadly some were never the same person that they were before.

War is a terrible thing

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so sad - my previous

Mon, 2023-11-13 08:01

so sad - my previous neighbour went to Vietnam, we would share a beer from time to time on a Sunday and it always saddened me to hear of how they were sometimes treated upon return - as he says (JB song) there were no D Day heroes in 1972
His name is Bob, he must be mid 80's now, he still drives a yellow truck and has a recycling run (bottles etc) if you see him (on the road or often at any given TAB!) give him a wave - absolute legend.

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My great grandfather’s war

Mon, 2023-11-13 14:23

My great grandfather’s war record shows he enlisted on 21 May 1915 at age 19 and went to Gallipoli BUT he somehow beat the hands of time and enlist for France in WWII in 1940 (25 years later) at the age of 38 (instead of age 44).
 
My Pop has his birth certificate and he was born in 1901 which means he went to WW1 at the ripe old age of 14 and had to change it back down again to go to WWII. Mad Scottish bugger!

 

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The only relative that I know

Mon, 2023-11-13 14:53

The only relative that I know that served was my uncle in Vietnam.  He came home but died of cancer that was put down to the war we should never have gone to .

Remembrance day also has another meaning to me and my family , my dad passed away on 11 /11 at 11 pm 4 years ago , so for me it has a big meaning

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RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together