Tomorrow, August 4th is the 90th anniversary of the declaration by Britain of war over Germany thus starting WWI. Of 4 million British and Commonwealth servicemen that fought in that war there are only 23 British war heroes left.
Of these 23 only 4 are fit enough to attend the wreath laying ceremony at The Cenotaph tomorrow.
I'd liie to give add my respects also. Not just for our own (but more so), But for all that have faught in such A war. Let such an event never be repeated!
May God continue to bless these men. Trench warefare, charging machine guns and wire. That is guts.
I'll drink some moonshine to them for sure.
Let them call me a rebel and I welcome it, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of demons were I to make a whore of my soul. (Thomas Paine)
One of the veterans is the sole surrvivor of the Battle of Jutland. To put that in perspective he was contemporary with Captain Harvey the Corps VC from that battle.
At the going down of the sun.............................
I still remember my uncle shouting out at night and rocking backwards and forwards in his chair. Mentally shredded from the age of 17. Thank God there is a site like this for those who suffer from modern conflict.
I was touched by the quote of one of the four who said "You had to be there to see what it was like, the imagination doesn't go that far". Still, soldiers still do what soldiers do and politicians do what politicians do. I'd like to think that an audience with these heroes from all sides would make a difference to the decisions politicians make.
