Stop being so ****ing pedantic. Do you really think everyone who applauded wasn't being respectful? Is that applause being slammed by everyone for not being respectful? NO. Why? Because it was respectful.
My point is, nobody meant any disrespect. But an applause is inappropriate in this situation. I know I felt really uncomfortable during it. We have an armed forces day now. That's the day to express your thanks, appreciation and support. I recall once reading a quote from Harry Patch, the last surviving veteran of the first world war. He basically dismissed rememberance day as just show business. I do fear that is the way it's going.
The great contest to define the Great War's legacy ahead of this year's remembrance, and next year's centenary, is getting going, as we report. Roadshows will reveal untold tales of home front heroics, competing with battlefield art at the Imperial War Museum, and â no doubt â new editions of the warrior poets of the age, exposing bloody futility. But it is not necessary to dig so dig so deeply into the trenches of time to grasp the real lesson; one need only listen to the Last Fighting Tommy, Harry Patch, who was with us until 2009. In his 2007 book of that name, Mr Patch (born 1898) did what he had never felt able to do until he reached 100, and looked back in anger. The "politicians who took us to war", he argued, "should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder". Who better to nail "The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/Pro patria mori"?
I didn't really think it merited one, to be honest. All you did was turn the words around from my post. Maybe I should just repost it and see if you do the same again?
Well, isn't that the point of debating? Still, I suppose making a statement like that is easier than admitting you're wrong...
Compared to Celtic's efforts every year, it's fine in my book. [video=youtube;YW24N1G0WIk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW24N1G0WIk[/video]
Hull was the most severely damaged British city or town apart from London during the Second World War, with 86,715 buildings damaged and 95 percent of houses damaged or destroyed.[5] Of a population of approximately 320,000 at the beginning of the war, approximately 152,000 were made homeless as a result of bomb destruction or damage.[4] Much of the city centre was completely destroyed and heavy damage was inflicted on residential areas, industry, the railways and the docks. Despite the damage and heavy casualties, the port continued to function throughout the war. The city was an obvious target for Luftwaffe bombing because of its importance as a port and industrial centre. Being on the east coast, at the confluence of two rivers and with readily identifiable docks in the city centre, it was also a relatively easy target. As a result it suffered heavy bombing from May 1941 to July 1943, and sporadic attacks thereafter until the end of the war. It endured the first daylight raid of the war and the last piloted air raid.[5] Almost 1,200 people were killed and 3,000 injured in air raids.[6] Contemporary radio and newspaper reports did not identify Hull by name, but referred to it as a "North-East" town or "northern coastal town" to avoid giving tactical information of damage to the enemy.[7] Consequently, it is only in more recent years that Hull has been recognised as one of the most severely bombed places in Britain. Hull often took bombing meant for more inland places, or from German aircraft fleeing down the Humber to the open sea after failing to find Sheffield, Leeds or other northern towns, the victims of pilots who needed to dump their bombs. The difference between Royal Air Force crews returning from bombing raids over Germany, and German crews returning to their bases, is that pilots of the RAF had strictly observed dump zones in the North Sea and English Channel, where pilots could unload unused bombs with minimum risk.[citation needed]
There's going to be a minutes silence at St Mary's for anyone associated with Saints who've died in the last year.
