howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
bearing in mind there is only 3 years before the centenary of the start of the great war this seems like a camapaign that is worthy of our support.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/8872178/Save-our-war-memorials-campaign-launched.htmlGuest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#2
Considering the great advances made in the waging of warfare since the days when the cost of such was all too clear upon village greens throughout the land; from the absence of townsmen way-back-when to, now, the presence of memoria.
Is it not about time we set-up facsimiles of the 'Drones' we now employ to ensure that the cost of War is felt only by those far away and that now Fatality is firmly someone else's problem.
It sticks in my craw that we can 'respect' those of our forebears who struggled and died to rid us of the Blitzkrieg we now dole out to others.
Where is the memorial to the living? The petrol pump?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
#3
What people don't realize is that a council can not touch a war grave without first contacting the Commonwealth War Graves and even then it has to go to a Government Body any war grave or monument wanting to be moved has to be within the site it was first erected. they tried this on the werrill with the monument of the poet W Owen and got a £50,000 fine