Remembrance Service

[filibuster]

Just finished watching the Remembrance Service on TV and found it very moving, more so than normal.
I kept wondering how Gordon Brown was feeling, especially when we heard of the horrendous injuries those young men have suffered in addition to the women who have lost a son or a husband and father.

[Sandy-Wroe]

Gordon Brown is a patriot. He would be as aware as anybody else of the loss and grief that wars bring.

[daneswalk]

he could not care less like the rest of the establishment they are all making money so they dont want this conflict to end i am not a commie but haqve a look at who makes money out of wars

[Androcles]

Brown will have gone through the usual politician's trick of disconnecting from this, dealing with it at arms length as if it is nothing to do with him. He is interested in power, as they all are, and a few soldiers more or less won't worry them in the overall plan to keep power.

Remember Rudyard Kipling:

"For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Chuck him out, the brute!'
But it's 'Saviour of 'is country' when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!"

[dothawkes31]

Paths of Glory is on more 4, awesome film