ocelot
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Reading this thread has got my blood boiling............... I've just returned from Dunkirk after having taken one of the small ships over...... there were more than 50 damned old boats, leaky old tubs some, across the channel just like they did in 1940. The one I took still has her original Ailsa Craig engines made in 1902........ and they worked well after years of neglect and lack of use.
The french and english who turned out to see us arrive and take part in the memorial totally humbled me with their respect for the sacrifice of those involved in the second world war and Operation Dynamo in particular.
H&S be damned..... this country is paranoid to the extreme, bloody security cameras everywhere, I counted 4 in Dunkirk, more than 20 in Dover port alone.... 2 in calais..... for councils simply to dump gravestones on their backs in the name of safety is ludicrous and totally disrespectful to both the dead and the living.
Sue the B'stards for desecration of a grave.........
The french and english who turned out to see us arrive and take part in the memorial totally humbled me with their respect for the sacrifice of those involved in the second world war and Operation Dynamo in particular.
H&S be damned..... this country is paranoid to the extreme, bloody security cameras everywhere, I counted 4 in Dunkirk, more than 20 in Dover port alone.... 2 in calais..... for councils simply to dump gravestones on their backs in the name of safety is ludicrous and totally disrespectful to both the dead and the living.
Sue the B'stards for desecration of a grave.........