Re: Second First Day of Eleventh Month

In message <91DJm.3043$Ym4.1916@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave xxxx <da@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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missed the falklands and ni

I cannot be AOU in having at first read that as referring to the knights who say it. (I wasn't going to comment but the realised it _wasn't_ RF writing.)
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as for whats it about who cares ? not them sending the chaps thats for sure

nor many of us to who it was just a job one that was our choice and great
fun

and many knowing what happens would still sign on and sign on again

i would if i could

My mum said many of the soldiers with whom we lived and worked did indeed seem to enjoy their tours in NI - the closest to what they signed up for, in those days (1970s, more or less). Enjoy is not _quite_ the right word (though I'm sure some of them did), but I think YKWIM.

ps the poppy was a yank idea beat us by about three years to using it to
remember the dead


Interesting prog. about it yesterday afternoon on R4; I wasn't entirely paying attention, but I got the feeling that the French at one time also (or instead) had blue, as in cornflowers.
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