For you Mosquito fans out there, I thought this was a good story about a couple old vets. First link is a news clip I caught a few days ago (wait for the commercial to pass, ugh), and the second a brief text blurb. Personally, I have always wanted to meet with a Mosquito pilot, shake the hand of living history, and hear about what it was like. I find it hard to believe, but it is a reality, that there are fewer and fewer WWII vets left.
http://watch.ctv.ca/...ing/#clip561325
http://calgary.ctv.c...hub=CalgaryHome
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Veterans reintroduced after 67 years
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, Nov 05 2011 03:43 AM
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Posted 05 November 2011 - 03:43 AM
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Posted 05 November 2011 - 09:53 AM
Great story Ridend 
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Posted 05 November 2011 - 09:41 PM
Rídend, on 05 November 2011 - 03:43 AM, said:
For you Mosquito fans out there, I thought this was a good story about a couple old vets. First link is a news clip I caught a few days ago (wait for the commercial to pass, ugh), and the second a brief text blurb. Personally, I have always wanted to meet with a Mosquito pilot, shake the hand of living history, and hear about what it was like. I find it hard to believe, but it is a reality, that there are fewer and fewer WWII vets left.
http://watch.ctv.ca/...ing/#clip561325
http://calgary.ctv.c...hub=CalgaryHome
http://watch.ctv.ca/...ing/#clip561325
http://calgary.ctv.c...hub=CalgaryHome
Good on them. Real Canadians.
I will be forwarding that one Ridend. Cheers.
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Posted 06 November 2011 - 08:41 AM
What were the chances of those two meeting up again like that? A happy story for them, being able to have someone who really knows and shared their experiences, at that time of life.
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Posted 06 November 2011 - 04:11 PM
Geraldine, on 06 November 2011 - 08:41 AM, said:
What were the chances of those two meeting up again like that? A happy story for them, being able to have someone who really knows and shared their experiences, at that time of life.
I would say the odds are pretty damn high not only given age but location. Yes, a happy story for once. Unfortunately over here for the last few years, vets have had a fight on their hands against the government who is trying to screw them out of their deserved compensation and other support via budget cuts and clawbacks. Yes, the very same people who trashed the public purse, now want to give vets the shaft. When you have businessmen become politicians, almighty money takes precedent above all else. These are also the very same people who so easily send those in service off to fight in foreign countries where death and maiming is a possibility. All I can say if these elected officials can find the cash for the endless flow of foreign aid, and splash out for such useless things as the Olympics, then they can find the money for vets.
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Ðé gúþgewinn þurh hǽðenra hilde wóman, beorna beaducræft, geboden wyrþeþ...
Ðé gúþgewinn þurh hǽðenra hilde wóman, beorna beaducræft, geboden wyrþeþ...
"Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale."
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