Why did you fight?

Discussion in 'General' started by peterhastie, Nov 12, 2009.

  1. Passchendaele_Baby

    Passchendaele_Baby Grandads Little Girl

    Me... I, sir, fought on the feild where the "Ultimate Frizbee" was being played. I got hit in the face because I wasnt paying any attention.
    But then again, a black eye for a few weeks is nothing compared to what our vets went through.

    Um... I don't actually know what that was for. hehe =D
     
  2. urqh

    urqh Senior Member

    To make frisbees in our own countries...to have parks open to all ...to have bags for doggie mess in parks..for the right to have a black eye whenever we want one..fair dinkum..im coming over all chilly ..i may burst into a rendition of two little boys...god save the queen...my local pub..and lizzie of course..
     
  3. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    This thread deserves to have honoury memebrship of here now.

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  4. urqh

    urqh Senior Member

    and so we mourn the passing of fred...sorry..thread...someone play nimrod and we can safely leave it to rememberance.
     
  5. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

  6. Pete Keane

    Pete Keane Senior Member

    Red arrows are now bi-sexual?

    Damn, should've stayed after all.
     
  7. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

  8. peterhastie

    peterhastie Senior Member

    What I was after is.

    What does it take us personally to get us up of our backsides and do something about something that isnt right. Not waiting to be told/ conscripted. How many of us have sat back, and said "that doesn,t concern me", until it was too late.
    What event, thought, or moment actually got you to join up. what got you to say "Ive had enough of this, Im going to do something about it". Or like me was it just a job because their were few other prospects
    The political babble was not thought out, but the question still stands.

    Sorry about the delay in replying my internet has been off.
     
  9. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    My reasons were none of the above :)
     
  10. urqh

    urqh Senior Member

    Well if its down to joining up . Icould say family history and stories plus relations who were still in..I could say Liverpool in recession. Icould say a 16 year olds view of patriotism..warped though it was. At 16 I also liked the uniform. Unlike Drew I can safely say all the above..well that was intention..truth though is 3 of us went to individual careers officers as a joke. Laugh was on us.. Ine spent next xmas surfacing u nder north pole and waving on tv pics later. Other joined army and ended up with a bullet thru the head other oh thats me laughed and messed my way through a decade and half of great times until the last laugh was had by kicking me out with a pair of crutches for life and a scouse mum...see...I told yer...I told yer that would appen.. Sorry Not many join for moral reasons Unless at war like our vets and I include Drew in the war vets in that small bunch as much as Ron and Sapper.
     
  11. DoctorD

    DoctorD WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    With two brothers already in it and serving overseas, and having trained on air crew subjects for four years in the ATC (pity they found too late that I was colour-blind!), if I hadn't volunteered for RAF I'd have been called up for the Kate within six months. Might as well have done so I suppose, as RAF blue attracted friendly fire as well as the distinctly unfriendly variety on Omaha, as well as for weeks thereafter, until they issued khaki which, in parts of the anatomy, our blue had already changed to!
     
  12. Gerard

    Gerard Seelow/Prora

    What I was after is.

    What does it take us personally to get us up of our backsides and do something about something that isnt right. Not waiting to be told/ conscripted. How many of us have sat back, and said "that doesn,t concern me", until it was too late.
    What event, thought, or moment actually got you to join up. what got you to say "Ive had enough of this, Im going to do something about it". Or like me was it just a job because their were few other prospects
    The political babble was not thought out, but the question still stands.

    Sorry about the delay in replying my internet has been off.
    Then you are referring to the members who have "served" only then?
     
  13. Auditman

    Auditman Senior Member

    My dad was in the RAF Regiment. My Dad was not warlike and having seen the aftermath of the sharp end was quite anti-war. He only ever really spoke of the comradeship side of his service. One of his officers visited Belsen shortly after its liberation and Dad always said that it affected that officer. Having said all that I never heard my Dad say that the War was wrong.

    I remember similar threads on the BBC People's War site about the Allied Bombing campaigns, how awful it was against civilians etc. This retrospective writing of history must take into consideration the times and attitudes of the public then, not the fact that these processes have since changed. British civilians were on the receiving end of bombing, strategic thinking of the 1930s involved air power. WW1 was the end of blind patriotism, WW2 was necessary to defeat extremism, pretty much what is the intention behind Iraq & Afghanistan, however closely it appears to support Capitalist requirements. I hate it when I hear that any soldiers, I don't care which nationality, have been killed or wounded. They are not fighting for MacDonalds or NatWest bank, they are doing because they believe in why they are there. Our guys are volunteers - do not forget.
     

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