Has the emotion ever got to you? I remember coming away from the play off finals against Carlton completely she'll shocked and seeing grown men crying. Once I have cried and we were playing in the championship. I was with my dad. His brother was fighting for his life in intensive care (chicken pox) we always went to the games together. We scored (I can't remember who we played even) but I said tony dad that for my uncle and weeping ensued.
When I came out of my tests after 2 months in hospital and they told me I would live - big relief as I did not know the alternative
I was moved near to tears watching the post apartheid reconciliation, with the prisoner saying to his torturer 'How can you listen to a man's groans of pain and screams?'
Walking along the narrow wooden fences between the gardens to get to the next concrete post. Foot slipped and hey presto one leg either side of fence.
this movie once fetched a tear to my eyes ...(reckon I must have been drunk at the time) [video=youtube;lxNXtjGY_Us]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxNXtjGY_Us[/video]
When i see pictures of children in the media who have died as a result of abusive parents! Particularly since my daughter was born last year! Before then i would just feel sad! Now i feel despair and rage! Football related.....I remember crying immediately after beating sheffield utd in the fa cup! 2-1 win i think it was! think it was the season we lost to millwall in the semi's! Cant remember why....i think it was just relief!!!
I'm a very emotional person Disco, whatever emotion it is I'm feeling, be it love, anger, rage, happiness it's just so intense man, can't help it, it's just the way I am. Coming out of the match on D Day I was so pumped up I felt like I was about to burst. When I found out about my mate Ali dying I got invited to my mate Jinxy's. The drink flowed & so did the tears. Cried when my kids were born, when my dad died, at the atrocities i witnessed in Srebranicia. Oh I've wept many a time, when Janie died I cried buckets, I nearly jumped in the grave with her coffin.
When I found my uncle's grave in Normandy. He was surrounded by too many young lads, mostly in their early twenties. I never knew him but it was still a very emotional moment. The final few scenes of Saving Private Ryan now get me everytime.
When Gray missed that Pen against Charlton, when my Grandma died and when my boys were born. Other than that I've always tried to be a man. My Grandads 93 and I'm scared of how hard his deaths Gona hit me and my family. He's one of the most influential blokes I've had in my life and if I could be half the person he is I'd be happy. As a 17 year old my Grandad was a tradesman, a Electricion. He was void from being called up for the 2nd World war because of his trade. The country needed tradesmen at home. My Grandad was having none of that. His country was getting bombed so behind his parents back he wanted to defend it. He tried every regiment but got turned away cause he was too young. Eventually the RAF signed him up and after 6 months training he was told to get on an aeroplane. One of his colleges had a panic attack boarding this flight so my Grandad being the man he is took him off the plane and calmed him down. He missed the flight because of this and Within 10 mins from take off that plane was bombed by Germans! My Grandad ended up being in the Dam busters squadron.
My granda did the same in WWI mate, exempt as a coal miner but volunteered anyway & was packed off to the Somme. When he came back from seeing 1 million men wiped out, he went straight back down the pit. I wish I could be half the man he was.
Men were real men those days mate. I worship the ground my grandad walks on, i sit For hours listening to his war stories. Your old man sounds like he was the same!
That was my granda Danny, he never talked much about the war, all's he said was, "son, it was hell on Earth."
