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World War One commemoration

Discussion in 'Swansea City' started by Matthew Bound Still Lurks, Oct 6, 2018.

  1. Matthew Bound Still Lurks

    Matthew Bound Still Lurks Well-Known Member

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    Matthew Bound Still Lurks, Oct 6, 2018
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    100 years since the end of the Great war, the war that was supposed to end all wars? I wonder what that generation would make of the country we have now turned into?
     
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    Truly looking forward to this ,this brings a different perspective on how we view this war and a reminder as if we ever need reminding just how much we owe to so many for the freedoms we have and how precious it is to keep them instead of throwing them away as we seem to be doing with no thought of the consequences

     
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    Thank god for our brave armed forces i say....Wear your poppy with pride of our ancestors, And dont forget to give as much as you can afford for a worthy cause...<ok>
     
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    swanseaandproud, Oct 21, 2018
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    Drove from home in Cheshire to my Mam's in the rhondda yesterday. Always travel down the middle of Wales.
    Several villages with poppies a foot across adorning lamp posts and traffic signs. A real spectacle.
    For all our problems, we have been spared what they had to endure.
    My mother was telling me how my grandfather fought as a 16 year old. He came back and spent the rest of his working days in the mines. One of the lucky ones.
     
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    I remember as a youngster renting a boat on Llangorse lake in Brecon and mooring up by the old Church there, and wondering around the grave stones and reading the many accounts of death by Mustard Gas on the headstones, of those fallen in this Great War, Young boys really, thinking how fortunate I was not to live through such an era..........................<ok>
     
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