The Last Post
- Thread starter wafflycat
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
Over The Hill
Guru
- Location
- Ridden off into the sunset
doodles said:
Not taking anything away from the heros of WWI but they do make 'em like that.
Our boys have been out in Afghanistan for eight years - twice the duration of WWI.
Although not on the same scale it is killing just the same and pointless just the same.
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
according to what i've seen on the news, the old boy was a keen cyclist at least into his seventies, so we've lost one of our own…
Hover Fly
He, him, his
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Now there is just one.
RIP Harry.
RIP Harry.
OP
OP
wafflycat
New Member
- Location
- middle of Norfolk
Andy in Sig
Vice President in Exile
- Location
- Sigmaringen, Germany
Over The Hill said:
Please reconsider that. It's a view which is rarely shared by those who do the fighting (although I'm aware of the late Mr Patch's views on the subject) and is frankly a bit of a pointless cliche. There are a lot of arguments for making war as a last resort but that sort of view doesn't contribute much to the debate.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Harry Patch somehow made the war real to my children, and they always watched him each time he was on the local news. One of them came out to the garden to tell me the news yesterday. Then to bring it down to her level asked me "which death was sadder - Harry Patch or Michael Jackson?" - for me no competition Harry Patch every time.
