Do We Need To Complain

[teacake44]

I'm not unknowledgeable about world war 1, but after watching WW1 in colour it makes you wonder what we really have to complain about, ( including myself ) it brings one back down to earth, for what we take for granted. Well worth watching if you can stand it?

[sanmac]

Pointing out the fact that there have been many wars since WW2 still does not negate the fact that the vast majority of us have lived a war-free life as Teackae44 pointed out in a previous post.

[vetuste_ennemi]

[Tilly2]

Maybe I should have written:-)

I feel truly blessed that, during my lifetime, this country has not been involved in a world war, just to clarify.

[ummmm]

Sqad...but they still brag!

[anotheoldgit]

danyk13

/// AOG, I appreciate that you were an infant at that time but I can assure you that I was not, ///

And neither was I.

/// because I had a bicycle I was recruited as a messenger by Civil Defence. ///

I bet you looked great on your tricycle.

[dannyk13]

Ummmm ,That's a bit unkind.

[dannyk13]

AOG, your facetious remarks are really beginning to irritate, a pity that we cannot meet face to face.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

How can they brag about their exploits, if they don't reveal or share their exploits?

[anotheoldgit]

dannyk13
And I am sure we would get on quite well sharing our exploits.

Just a bit of banter old chap, on what would otherwise be yet another boring AB period.

Tally Ho! Chin! Chin! old boy,
or is it yet another 'chocks away for yet another sortie'?

[Zacs-Master]

(I think AOG has finally flipped)

[retrocop]

Mr aog
It is quite well known amongst the crossword fraternity that danny13 is an octogenarian. I recall one time his avatar was one of himself on Lunenburg Heath shortly after hostilities had ceased in WW2. He was wearing the King's army uniform.

[jackthehat]

On many occasions I have attempted to point out to AOG that women would have been quite happy to fight alongside their men but that they were prevented from doing so by law; laws that were made by a different set of men.
Women stepped into the vacant roles once the men left for war, only to be unceremoniously kicked out of them once the men returned.

Modern times have seen that those of us with our feet on British soil have lived under no threat of death even whilst our troops are fighting on foreign shores. (I appreciate that the usual pedants will be rushing to their keyboards to pick holes in my arguments....even though it is obvious what I am saying).

Surely it has dawned by now, AOG, that you are not the only person with experience of WW2 posting on this site?

[Peter Pedant]

// Yes men have it rough, I despair as I hear women libbers complain of the hardships wimmin have to endure.//

yes ! and when AOG yowls and whines about god knows what ( race n brexit usually - brown people just about to murder him in his bed usually again) I reflect on how the brave Indian Army served in the trenches for the King-Emperor.

Altie - Chapel St., had the most join up before conscription, (60) and the hackette asked a local historian in wonder - "why dey do dat den?"
and the historian said
I can think of three reasons a day actually
( The men got fed rather than starved and also sent money back to the families. for those Abers not able to follow owt )

[ummmm]

danny - it's not unkind. He often mentions being in the military but won't say what he did. He often mentions bringing back national service.

He was conscripted. He didn't volunteer to serve his country!

[Peter Pedant]

retro -
you know from maff that makes him 95 ?

Lunenborg Heath 20 - in 1945
so born 1925
so his age is 75 + 19 - which I make around 95

AOGhas said he didnt serve during the war so say 15 in 1945
born 1930 - even he would be 89

[anotheoldgit]

retrocop

An octogenarian is a person 80 to 89, WW2 came to an end in 1945 that is 74 years ago, so Danny would have been only been 15 at the most in 1945.

[Peter Pedant]

// Surely it has dawned by now, AOG, that you are not the only person with experience of WW2 posting on this site? //
no - actually I dont think there is anyone

[hereIam]

aog I am beginning to think that you dislike women intensely as you frequently have digs over one thing or another concerning women and now on a thread about the poor lads fighting in the trenches in WW1 you actually bring women into it having yet ANOTHER dig !! I think you are a MCP and I have gone right off you. Not that you will care of course.

[Peter Pedant]

yes retro daddy was with me
and or but ....
in my childhood - veterans of the Boer War ( er 1899-1902 that is!) were commonplace

[ladybirder]

Heartbreakingly beautiful link by v_e @ 15.04pm. Thank you.
Sorry to interrupt the back-biting.