Percy Dalton 9:03 Mon Jan 21
Bomber command memorial
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To the scum that threw paint over such a beautiful memorial of such brave airmen. I hope you die a truly horrible death and I'd willingly torture you just for the fun of it.
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Northern Sold
8:01 Sat Jan 26
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/rafs-darkest-night-95-planes-3276531
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Westside
5:40 Sat Jan 26
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.dont ever pity any bod that served..they volunteered,
Well apart from the millions who were conscripted.
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lowermarshhammer
2:02 Sat Jan 26
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That Kehinde Andrews is a racist.
Hates whitey.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jix0GG4t6vc
He's an irrelevant academic prat who would last two minutes in the real world outside of his chosen non subject academia.
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Toe Rag
1:21 Sat Jan 26
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Just looked this Kehinde Andrews up.
Someone’s been playing silly buggers with his wiki.
“Dr Kehinde Andrews is a British Academic of Afro-Caribbean[citation needed] heritage. He is a Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, the director of the Centre for Critical Social Research, founder of the Organisation of Black Unity Mitford, and co-chair of the Black Studies Association.[1] He is "the UK’s first professor of black studies."[2]”
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zico
1:05 Sat Jan 26
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martyboy 9:38 Tue Jan 22
The snowflake on Good Morning was a bloke called Kehinde Andrews. Not sure what annoyed me more, the desecration of the memorial or this bloke!!
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Mike Oxsaw
11:57 Sat Jan 26
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..."His plane was the 100th aircraft lost in one night. Which I find hard to get my head round."
Next time you fly from Heathrow - take a look at the whole airside area - then imagine it with, suddenly, absolutely no aircraft of any kind at all. That's about 100 aircraft missing, there and then.
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Mike Oxsaw
11:07 Sat Jan 26
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twoleftfeet 10:37 Sat Jan 26
Poor quality will almost certainly be down to the government/camera operator going for the most two-bob box-ticking* solution they could lay their hands on.
Industry standard surveillance cameras can pick out a number plate at about 300 yards and a face from a picture that only has 11 pixels between the eyes. I suspect they decided that the memorial was not worth the $3,000 per pop price tag.
* - you wanted video survellance, I've given you vidio survellance, now pay up and shut the fuck up.
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twoleftfeet
10:37 Sat Jan 26
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They have just released CCTV footage of the person that did the vandalism and the quality is shocking! I can’t believe they there is no better footage available? I didn’t realise he vandalised 4 other memorials that night including Yvonne Fletchers.
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normannomates
5:40 Sat Jan 26
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"national service bods i cannot answer for..
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normannomates
5:37 Sat Jan 26
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war is war .dont ever pity any bod that served..they volunteered and either died or injured on opps..it was their choice...and every single one would concur.
you enlist..you know the score..simple as that...
when it comes down to it...morals and all the rest mean jack shit.
don't call it on if not prepared to face the reality and the consequences. sounds harsh and cold right? different worlds altogether...and rightly so
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Percy Dalton
7:02 Thu Jan 24
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Ironsofcanada The wife's uncle Ed had two Canadians on board when they crashed. 9980 Canadians died in Bomber Command operations
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ironsofcanada
6:20 Thu Jan 24
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, 6:03 Thu Jan 24
Interesting to know.
Uncle Teddy was shot down over Dusseldorf the year before, I don't actually know if he would have moved as well.
When we were back in Canada last year, helping my mother downsize, I found a letter from him to a friend, i had never seen before.
He was just being a lad, talking about the English girls, it would considered sexist today but it just made him a lot more real.
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Far Cough
6:12 Thu Jan 24
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Anne of Cleves was from close to Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Not a lot of people know that :-)
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,
6:03 Thu Jan 24
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By an amazing coincidence I too have a relative buried in Riechswald cemetery. He was shot down in 1943 and buried in Holland, near the German border. In 1945 his remains along with those of other allied fliers were removed to the large cemetery near Kleve.
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orwells tragedy
6:02 Thu Jan 24
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Enoch Nutter 5:43 Thu Jan 24
Yeah, it came to mind because I happened to be watching "The World at War" the other day.
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ironsofcanada
5:55 Thu Jan 24
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Percy Dalton 3:21 Thu Jan 24
My great uncle was a rear gunner in a Lancaster and now lies in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
My dad was never very emotional, but talking about this guy, (he was his hero and left when my dad was 7) was the exception.
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Enoch Nutter
5:43 Thu Jan 24
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Orwell,
I have a place close by to Oradour. I have been there a couple of times and it is a most chilling place to visit and a reminder above all of man's inhumanity.
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Dwight Van Mann
5:35 Thu Jan 24
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chim chim cha boo 4:04 Thu Jan 24
*gives rapturous applause
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orwells tragedy
5:30 Thu Jan 24
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane_massacre
The German people had plenty of time to turn on their masters, they didn't, they fought on.
"“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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Northern Sold
5:21 Thu Jan 24
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chim chim cha boo 4:04 Thu Jan 24
* round of applause *
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panamahat
5:12 Thu Jan 24
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Extremely well put Chim !
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