A reminder of someone who deserves far more recognition. A brilliant mural, incidentally. https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/tries-medals-sacrifice-incredible-story-7808250
One of the FC fans in the comments can't believe he's not in their Hall of Fame, that needs putting right asap. R.I.P. Hero.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
It’s over a hundred years since the end of WW1 & almost 80 since WW2 ended. There can’t be too many veterans left these days. A lot of younger people won’t have any immediate connection to either war, grandparents probably gone, parents too young to have been involved, so they only have their parents/grandparents stories, of which they probably don’t pass on, because their kids aren’t interested in that history. It’s a difficult thing to see people crying on their social media accounts, saying they don’t have a future because of oil & climate change, when a lot of people came together from different countries & different backgrounds to stop a tyrant who plunged the World into a war that left most of the world untouched by it. Yet do these same people think about what future the people had back then? Even the Falklands War was 40 years ago, do people even mention this to their kids? Would they even know where to start to look for the Falklands on a map? This is just a historic moment in this country, in others there will be wars significant to them. Do people still stop at 11am, on the 11th day of the 11th month & take in the minute’s silence? If they do, do they know why? I would hope that the World has learnt from history & world wars are a thing of the past, but I think if history teaches us anything, it’s that people don’t learn from history.
Just finished watching SAS Rogue Heroes, brilliant and timely and mostly true, we will remember them.
I'm really happy that my parents named me after my grandad. I never met him, as he died during that awful war. He picked up a disease, trying to treat children and died here in Hull from the same disease. His superiors had instructed him to under no circumstances go anywhere near these kids, but he couldn't help himself. Thank you grandad, maybe you saved some of those children, I don't know x
If you enjoyed that you should try ''SAS Ghost Patrol'' - written by Damien Lewis (not the actor of the same name); it's a true story of the very earliest days of the SAS, a staggering read of bravery bordering on crazy.
Eye of the Storm by Peter Ratcliffe who served in the SAS for 25 years is a good book. He finished as the SAS Regimental Sergeant-Major during the first Gulf war. He had quite the career which he details in both graphic and funny ways but he also explodes a few myths and calls out exaggerations in books like Bravo Two Zero.
