RIP Thread February

That was a shock. Far too young, but she certainly lived.

Not wanting to be disrespectful, her name always reminds me of an example given to show the difference between US and British troops.
During the war in Afghanistan, the British and American forces were involved in really heavy fighting with the Taliban. The worst of the fighting was in and around the caves of Tora Bora. The American forces dubbed them, ‘The Caves of Death’. The British forces referred to them as, ‘Tora Bora Tomkinson’.



RIP
 
That was a shock. Far too young, but she certainly lived.

Not wanting to be disrespectful, her name always reminds me of an example given to show the difference between US and British troops.
During the war in Afghanistan, the British and American forces were involved in really heavy fighting with the Taliban. The worst of the fighting was in and around the caves of Tora Bora. The American forces dubbed them, ‘The Caves of Death’. The British forces referred to them as, ‘Tora Bora Tomkinson’.



RIP

Yet another classic example of someone who was rubbished and ridiculed on a regular basis while alive , but upon death people change their tune.
Wealth, fame and glamour- yet ultimately she was miserable and lonely it seems.
 
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Hans Rosling - Swedish medic and statistician, a brilliant presenter of information who could make the driest of subjects both understandable and fun.
 
Yesterday, Alan Simpson, 87.
One half of Galton & Simpson, writers of Steptoe and Son and Hancock's Half Hour.
 
That was a shock. Far too young, but she certainly lived.

Not wanting to be disrespectful, her name always reminds me of an example given to show the difference between US and British troops.
During the war in Afghanistan, the British and American forces were involved in really heavy fighting with the Taliban. The worst of the fighting was in and around the caves of Tora Bora. The American forces dubbed them, ‘The Caves of Death’. The British forces referred to them as, ‘Tora Bora Tomkinson’.



RIP

First Gulf War.

USA- Desert Storm.

UK- Operation Granby.

Say no more.