sasha wrote: I signed up for the army the day before the Argies invaded the Falklands but didn't start basic training until it had all finished. And I left a month before Saddam invaded Kuwait.
Part of me wishes I could have been there for both and part of me was glad I wasn't.
Well there's your answer Sasha, 75 views and only you have replied, not only that but I put this in one shape or form on 3 different sites and yours is the only reply between them,
See the British public like the American one likes to pull it's Pat Flag out at the beginning and sometimes at the end if we come home having clinched the cup for them, then next year it's all forgotten, too busy building their own little empires to wonder if everyone is ok or not,
The saddest thing is if this is forgotten after 30 years then WW2 is a distant memory to most, and that means trouble on the horizon, because man repeat's himself because he doesn't live long enough for someone who lived the event to properly in person tell the real story, even the French Revolution is a fantastic warning from the past, will people take note though, no they won't, all they will think of is themselves and then cry, why didn't somebody do........... when it comes around again,
It was posed to me the other day if there was another WW that our potential soldier's that are currently chav's would simply allow a walk over, I don't agree myself I think when told that it's get dug in or get enslaved etc by another country they will rise out of the track suit and into the combat's and do us proud, same thing with those that will be too busy selling insurance etc to join the effort, once you show them what will happen when conquered they will be more focused on making munitions or fighting than worrying about lost profit's,
Anyway as I suspected/expected there hasn't been any uptake other than yours Sasha and I thank you for replying as well so it just show's you what a soldier actually goes to war for, some time in the future those that don't care will be powering their car's with fuel that came from the South Atlantic, had MT simply surrendered it to Argentina those future resources would not be coming this way and we'd be even more of a door mat than we are seen to be now.
CC, I'm very disappointed to have not seen you comment, I had you down as the sort of bloke who would have something to add to this.
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