Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I've just watched a most entertaining programme on the subject of the irreverent WWI trench publication, The Wipers Times. Details of the content of the paper and a chance to watch the programme can be found via the links laid out below...
Some content...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/23931340
bbc iplayer;Coming Soon...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01d0zrj/The_Wipers_Times/Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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watched it myself tom and was totally hypnotised by the quality of the story and the acting.
a long time since i have seen a home grown programme of such quality, the last one was "warriors" about bosnia.
Brian Dixon
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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"The Wipers Times" was very good and shows what can be done in difficult situations, very well presented.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a lot of modern day jokes first found light of day in the trenches of the great war, a tribute to our gallows humour.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a difficult balance to strike between commemoration and not making it a celebration .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24440923Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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War-fair
Warring is an essential
expression of what is
innate and fundamental
to our sum of frailties
For humankind cannot create
unless first it do destroy
no man can earn his true state
and remain as yet a boy
For humankind cannot create
unless first it do destroy
no woman can remain chaste
and so child-birth enjoy
The trick is knowing how
best to manage change
too, all carnage disavow
not destroy but rearrange
Life's just one long compromise
of which we, all too soon, do tire
maybe better held; life's promise
so to pacific-cohabitation aspire
For we are all in this together
and each some mother's son
thus all live long and prosper
when we have our neighbour:
Be our Number One.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 938- Registered: 13 May 2013
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you could invite the Canadians who stopped the German guns from firing on dover.
2 the whole of the see front turned in the biggest military parade ever seen since ww2 with check points at each end of sea front
3 a big out door service on the see front and all who can dress in period cloths displays of how we lived in them times
4 a fly past at 11am of a spitfire.
There is a chance to put dover back up there with other towns as next year we have two Anniversary's 6th June2014 75th Anniversary of D-Day And the 6th of July 2014 100 Years of World war One.
Ross Miller
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Mmmm and there was me thinking that WW1 started on 28th July when the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia following the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand on 28th June.
Russia then mobilised on 29th July, Germany on 30th July, France on 2nd August following the German invasion of Belgium and Britain declared war on 4th August.
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