General Chat

deanna

i am so happy your son

came home safe xxx

we should all show

our armed forces every respect

Errol. as I said, if you don't agree with this government's ideas about this then don't vote for them. I don't and I didn't and I won't.

As far as I understand it it's to do with oil and money and the government's view of the future. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a Tory either (or a LibDem). I just object to what I see as the pointless pratings of whichever government. The budget yesterday? We are in for a tough time? PLEEEASE. We had in my day 'coal not dole.; we had the 3 day working week. We had to do our homework by candle light because everyone was on strike. Have you seen 'Billy Elliot'? That was my era.

I may be cynical but we have seen it all before and they are all as bad as each other.

Honour our armed forces because they do what we daren't. Those who sadly die are very unfortunate and should be praised for doing an extreme job. Still not sure about the stamps though.

Don't think I would like to see my brother's picture on a stamp, not that he is dead but has been in the army for twenty odd years, don't think mum would like it either.
I do think they shoul have some form of recognition though.
I also think the ones who come home injured should be well looked after too
Janet

I am not hijacking the thread at all. I am adding my opinion to the debate and wish to know what we are actually celebrating. It would be totally wrong to use national stamps in this instance. It would also give out the wrong messages.
And a squaddie does have a choice. Either sign up or do not sign up.

Errol, My husband and I were completely opposed to both the 'theatres' my son was sent to.
BUT. As you have been told.... he was a soldier and had no choice at all.
For the first time in his life I had to accept that I was powerless to save him from this situation... not a nice feeling Errol, I can tell you!


Deanna X

PS.... a young man has a choice to sign or not.
A SQUADDIE has no choice.

Errol!!!

Did you have to do National Service?

Aggression is not to be celebrated but serving your country is. You do as you are ordered. I glad these young people chose a job rather than being on the dole.

Deanna unless I am very much mistaken, I was not aware that National Service had returned to the UK.
There is a choice whether to sign up or not.
My point is that should we be "celebrating", through the use of stamps, something that is widely regarded as a mistake and is not our war?
Nobody has yet been able to answer my questions. What exactly are we celebrating and what is being defended?

And you haven't answered my points yet either.

Errol the origional thread did not mention the words celebrate or defend so be a good chap and stop trying to wind people up ( which you are very good at )


Twizzle :-)))))

Errol, what are you on today??

I did not mention NATIONAL SERVICE.

In fact. who did ?

Deanna X

While this discussion was interesting - I am horrified at what it has turned into.

Some people have lost freinds and family in Iraq so recently they are not even buried yet and this thread becomes and Ego trip for posters.

Well thank you very much not. I certainly will not continue to read it let alone post on it.

i think our soldiers deserve

respect both dead and alive

My OH has served in Iraq twice, Joy, I dont think I'd have been happy for his picture to have been on a stamp if he hadnt come back.


Caz xxx

Helen I am not sure which points you mean. If you mean the question as to whether I carried out National Service then I don't actually think that is of anybody's business as far as this debate is concerned.
Twizzle how am I trying to wind people up? The question was whether stamps should be used and my viewpoint is that they should not. Am I only allowed to add to a thread if I agree?
Deanna my reference to National Service was that nobody is coerced into serving in the forces - it is a free choice.
So, what would be the point of these stamps?
My view is that they would give out very confusing messages - both nationally and internationally. They may even be perceived by some as incitement.

It was also suggested on this thread that we should have a parade.
Um, don't we already do that on an annual basis on Remembrance Day?

DEANNA TODAY 17.37.....
PS.... a young man has a choice to sign or not.
A SQUADDIE has no choice.


Errol, read that as I have written it please

When you have read it, try and remember that a mother with a son in any theatre of war...... is not interested in your opinion of the war.... she just has a passionate and painful need to have her son back.
Good night all.
Deanna X

so do you want the photos

on the stamps

Deanna a young man has a choice whether to enrol as a squaddie or not.

In Flanders Fields (Major John McCrae)

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

let's all be most grateful that young men and women do enlist in the forces or where would we be without them? I for one am enormously grateful to all our armed servicemen and women - of course they do not HAVE to enlist, they have a choice, but I am very grateful they do and so should we all be grateful to them.

I never miss our local Remembrance Parade at our village war memorial - it's just part of life - always plant a cross for my Dad's brother who was killed at nineteen years of age and is on the memorial - Thiepval in Belgium. His life had hardly begun and though I never met him I could weep buckets for him.