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Winston Churchill:

"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,

we shall fight on the seas and oceans,

we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,

we shall fight on the beaches,

we shall fight on the landing grounds,

we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,

we shall fight in the hills;

we shall never surrender".

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We owe that man so much to this day

No, we owe the soldiers who died in the field 13534534x more than we owe him.

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Exactly, people underestimate the terror of being in a freezing cold trench unable to move your fingers enough to effectively fire your rifle, clothes, boots, soaked through, gunfire snapping over your head

and having to go on over the ledge and take a town or city or machine gun emplacement

you cant go back or give up

duty or death, most likely both

words cant really express that kind of bravery

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Exactly, people underestimate the terror of being in a freezing cold trench unable to move your fingers enough to effectively fire your rifle, clothes, boots, soaked through, gunfire snapping over your head

and having to go on over the ledge and take a town or city or machine gun emplacement

you cant go back or give up

duty or death, most likely both

words cant really express that kind of bravery

Don't see what this has to do with my post, but c/s sameway.

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Winston Churchill:

"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,

we shall fight on the seas and oceans,

we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,

we shall fight on the beaches,

we shall fight on the landing grounds,

we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,

we shall fight in the hills;

we shall never surrender".

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We owe that man so much to this day

Trust.

So cannot wait until tomorrow! Going with my University to the battlefields in France and Belgium.

It's gonna be hectic. Gonna visit the cemeteries and trenches and see the old allies headquarters etc

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Winston Churchill:

"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,

we shall fight on the seas and oceans,

we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,

we shall fight on the beaches,

we shall fight on the landing grounds,

we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,

we shall fight in the hills;

we shall never surrender".

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We owe that man so much to this day

No, we owe the soldiers who died in the field 13534534x more than we owe him.

So we dont owe Churchill anything?

Despite the fact the majority of politicians at the time would have rather seen us call a truce with Hitler?

No doubt we owe the soldiers everything but that didnt have anything to do with what I said.

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"Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member.

Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier.

Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual.

But the one who has love, courage, and wisdom moves the world."

--Ammon Hennacy (1893-1970)

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Winston Churchill:

"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,

we shall fight on the seas and oceans,

we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,

we shall fight on the beaches,

we shall fight on the landing grounds,

we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,

we shall fight in the hills;

we shall never surrender".

+1

We owe that man so much to this day

No, we owe the soldiers who died in the field 13534534x more than we owe him.

So we dont owe Churchill anything?

Despite the fact the majority of politicians at the time would have rather seen us call a truce with Hitler?

No doubt we owe the soldiers everything but that didnt have anything to do with what I said.

Just got back from Arras in France over the weekend. Very deep and emotional. Thousands and thousands of bodies unidentified still today.

Deep.

Some pictures I took.

Langemarcke German Cemetery

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Lochnagar Crater

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French National Cemetery - Notre Dame de Lorette

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Vimy Ridge Trenches

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Ypres, Belgium

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Menin Gate - Ypres, Belgium

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Tyne Cot Cemetery

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lol@ quoting churchhill, when after he said those words he went to cry and beg the US president to get involved

You are not serious.

Roosevelt was actually shocked at the British Intelligence and couldn't believe his eyes or ears to find out that we actually knew things they didn't know.

try again batman!

With your level 1 city and guilds and you wanna talk to me about history.

Idiot!

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