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11-15-2005, 12:26 PM
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#1 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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11-15-2005, 12:28 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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Country:  | Good on him. 
__________________  "Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts"
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Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London
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11-15-2005, 12:34 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: UK
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Country:  | There has been a good series running on the TV Joe, capturing the memories of the last of these survivors of WW1 before they die.
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Unknown French woman interviewed June 1944 | |
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11-15-2005, 12:38 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| To think he has seen aviation since its earliest days till now.
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11-15-2005, 01:00 PM
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#5 | | "Shooter"
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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__________________  http://www.vg-photo.com Wherever their bones may lie, the courage of heroes is consecrated in the hearts and engraved in the history of the free. Lt Col Honner DSO MC, 39th Commander speaking of the dead from the battle of Kokoda. | |
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11-16-2005, 09:01 AM
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#6 | | Senior Member
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Country: | This is the link to the TV series web page The Last Tommy.
The final programme was last nignt. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwo..._gallery.shtml
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11-16-2005, 10:49 AM
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#7 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | that's quite a guy! good on him.........
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11-17-2005, 11:52 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Country: | An excellent man.
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. | |
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11-30-2005, 05:47 PM
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#9 | | Junior Member
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| What ever happened to Harry Patch? | |
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12-01-2005, 12:25 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Last I heard WW Harry is still about.
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