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Originally posted by fredgiblet:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/07/12/no
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No agenda, just thought this guy should be known by all.

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Originally posted by oldenglanddry:
And remembered, along with all the other PBI's that did the dirty work back in the day.

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Originally posted by oldenglanddry:
And remembered, along with all the other PBI's that did the dirty work back in the day.

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Indeed, there should be (and might be I don't know) a program in place that goes around to all the vets of WW1, WW2 and Korea, and later add on the other major wars as they start to pass out of living knowledge, and record their memories of the war. Just have someone sit down and record whatever they want to say about the wars.

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Originally posted by SoupCatcher:
Thanks for the link, fredgiblet.

I hadn't thought at all about how devastating WWI was until I roamed the highlands of Scotland on vacation. It seemed like every town, no matter how little, had a monument listing the residents who died. The sheer numbers, based on the sizes of these communities, was numbing. It even seemed to dwarf the numbers listed who died during WWII.

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During his recovery in Britain, he met his first wife. "Knocked her down. She was coming down some steps from the cinema and I was running for the bus and knocked her down. Picked her up, dusted her off and it started from that."

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