caring people still live...so heartwarming...RIP

[evanovitch]

Harold Jellicoe Percival: Hundreds of strangers attend funeral of ‘forgotten’ RAF veteran

http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/11/harold-jellicoe-percival-funeral-of-raf-veteran-gets-underway-with-hundreds-of-strangers-attending-4181755/

[Nunya]

Couldn't access the link

[kia027]

lovely sendoff to the veteran RIP Mr Percival

Nunya u have to copy & paste the entire link for it to work

[Wahalla]

The British love anything associated with the Dambusters and he was in the ground crew.......It is an essential part of Britishness. As he was involved I am not surprised of the turn out. I would have gone.....

...the dambusters is one of those events that is almost central to British post war culture as per the WWII the finest hour.. Skimming of bombs across the surface of a lake to bomb some damns.... (Last month I drove by where the RAF practiced in the highlands above a dam) they had to fly stead at a fixed speed and 80 ft above teh water straight and face flack... they had a higher than average death rate.. though I beleive more men died in the practice runs than the real things ... The skimming of stones ....it was an innovative engineering based on a well known technology....by an eccentric English engineer Barnes Wallis.. If u ever get to Britian.. and south london... there is a house oppostie the New Cross Bus station with a Blue plaque.

Get out the movie of the story ... watch it. The dog in it causes a bit of a stir these days http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046889/?ref_=nv_sr_1 even if is just for the dog! clipped accents and attitudes a la Downton Abbey.. And Micheal Redgrave was brilliant in it.. Blu will have a feild day about the dog..

two movies that make the english... The Great Escape and the Dambusters were shown almost every year at christmas....I can hear the music inm y head


Trust me research this little incident of the the Monha and the other Rhur dams and it will make sense the impact that this guy life had on Brutishness and its culture... At the time the British were out gunned and out manned... this was English hitting back a propoganda victory as it disrupted German industry though not as much as expected...

now however the thing that black britons get focused on is the damn dog! In fact a few weeks back tehy were talking of remaking the film of the incident but they stopped becauise pf the dog in it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise

But u all know that Wikipedia is unrelaible so none of this is true!

sorry I know that I hijacked the thread but then it is u evan..u understand.... u are not a Nazi on human thought! Did I mention the dog ?

[evanovitch]

Wahalla, u know there is talk about finalising 'pensions' for canines once they r retired from active duty ....bravo I say.....now if we could just mek sure the humans get all the help they need, it would be a perfect system of reward

I gave generously a week before POPPY Day here....as I said to the people who were collecting, many a Jamaican fought with the Canadian forces n I was pleased to hear that they were aware of the fact n engaged me in conversation on the subject

War is never a popular thing, but I know that I would not necessarily be willing to volunteer, knowing the horrors that I would be facing....so I never disrespect those who felt a sense of duty to the extent that they went....

I try never to make it a black n white thing at this point in time, because wen I see the children soldiers of African conflict, I know that injustice is visited by their own on their own....

[Wahalla]

Michael Manley was in the Canadian armed forces in world war II. But no the canine reference is not pension. I won't spoil that one. U really need to see the film I promise u it will be a surprise. But the Dambuster is an amazin from a human perspective and this old man was there.

I think they suffered 50 % casualties on the one raid... So imagine what this man went through waiting and counting the planes as they returned....they were men of men.....

At the Cenotaph in London on Sunday all the political leaders and ambassadors from the common wealth put wreaths on Sunday. To me it was ponient as the Tanzanian ambassador put his wreath down in thought Tanzanians were on the German side in WWI.



Also two weeks ago the leader of the opposition was being pilloried for being the son of a immigrant Communist intellectual who hated Britian. He defended himself by pointing out his father was Jewish and had volunteered for the UK armed forces. The PM actually defended the leader of opposition father the right to believe and the leader of the opposition right to defend his father.

[evanovitch]

so true Wahalla...men of men...mek mi tink of those men involved in the CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.... foolhardy vs loyalty vs bravery...mmmmm

[Wahalla]

so true Wahalla...men of men...mek mi tink of those men involved in the CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.... foolhardy vs loyalty vs bravery...mmmmm

Guns to left
Cannon to the right....

Both stupid and brave.... U don't leave ur brothers.... Stupid leaders and men who would be led. Remember this was the military machine that engaged and held a third of the world.

The management lesson is that the antipathy between Raglan and Cardigan led to the death of men. And a simple miscommunication.

A forgotten fact the Chassuers du Africa were there and cleared cleared the Flank making the English survive.

Again this highlights my antipathy for black history. I learnt this from conventional history,but this fact is never been highlighted in any black history month. Guess Africans are not black.

[evanovitch]

feel u on dat Wahalla....Andrews was way ahead n we studied African history...no overview but indepth n in detail...

people overlook the impact of Shaka Zulu on warfare technique....his short sword n method of engagement in close combat was revolutionary, if memory serves me right....also his organization of his village was ahead of what the British had back home...i always refer to that wen i remind smaddy dat dem was trowing dem waste from dem front window while his village knew to separate waste far from food storage n water....wink

people also forget dat he defeated the British initially

always tick me off wen i use to hear people use his name as a reference point for being derogatory about someones skin hue or features...ala him black n ugly like Shaka Zulu....di ignorance n self hate it displayed was telling

[evanovitch]

The British love anything associated with the Dambusters and he was in the ground crew.......It is an essential part of Britishness. As he was involved I am not surprised of the turn out. I would have gone.....

...the dambusters is one of those events that is almost central to British post war culture as per the WWII the finest hour.. Skimming of bombs across the surface of a lake to bomb some damns.... (Last month I drove by where the RAF practiced in the highlands above a dam) they had to fly stead at a fixed speed and 80 ft above teh water straight and face flack... they had a higher than average death rate.. though I beleive more men died in the practice runs than the real things ... The skimming of stones ....it was an innovative engineering based on a well known technology....by an eccentric English engineer Barnes Wallis.. If u ever get to Britian.. and south london... there is a house oppostie the New Cross Bus station with a Blue plaque.

Get out the movie of the story ... watch it. The dog in it causes a bit of a stir these days http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046889/?ref_=nv_sr_1 even if is just for the dog! clipped accents and attitudes a la Downton Abbey.. And Micheal Redgrave was brilliant in it.. Blu will have a feild day about the dog..

two movies that make the english... The Great Escape and the Dambusters were shown almost every year at christmas....I can hear the music inm y head


Trust me research this little incident of the the Monha and the other Rhur dams and it will make sense the impact that this guy life had on Brutishness and its culture... At the time the British were out gunned and out manned... this was English hitting back a propoganda victory as it disrupted German industry though not as much as expected...

now however the thing that black britons get focused on is the damn dog! In fact a few weeks back tehy were talking of remaking the film of the incident but they stopped becauise pf the dog in it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise

But u all know that Wikipedia is unrelaible so none of this is true!

sorry I know that I hijacked the thread but then it is u evan..u understand.... u are not a Nazi on human thought! Did I mention the dog ?

yeah Blu will be upset to know dat dem called the dog the N word...