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    Pickering

    in The meetings log and photobook

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    Hi Bodge,......great to see you and family, on sat, did you get onto train.

    Brilliant origional enactment, by the way,........glad day was warm. :)

     

    Pickering, for me was good,.looking to have a week up there next year, (gonna do train trip on friday,......NOT during w/end. :sweat:)...........only spoilt upon returning home to find an empty car parking space.......:???

     

    Yup, whilt I'd been enjoying myself, some scumbag had decided to nick me car,...........and then drive to pompy and torch it. :argh::argh::argh:

     

     

    Why is it,......even with insurance etc,.........I'm still losing out :confused:

    East Sussex wind down 25-27 sept 2009

    in Future events and meetings

    Posted

    What a fantastic-ly laid back weekend. :)

    Many thanks to Chris G. Gritineye, Graham 44k6, Richard Farrent, and John and Pat, aka Cat and Patweasle.

     

    Good news is this event IS going to become a regular one, with a few 'extra's', next year........:-D

     

    My thanks to the above mentioned for helping me to round off a good year in grand style..........see you all soon.

     

    Andy

    Carl Sandburg's poem "Grass"

    in Battlefields, museums, monuments and memorials.

    Posted

    Powerful Words.................very good. Not heard/seen this poem before.

     

    Many Thanks for posting . :)

     

    Andy

     

     

     

    Found this in the latest issue of Military History Magazine , reading and thinking how time changes What we see and how we interpret the world around Us.

     

    Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo

    Shovel them under and let me work-

    I am the grass;I cover all

     

    And pile them high at Gettysburg

    and pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.

    Shovel them under and let me work.

    Two years ten years, and passengers ask the conductor.

    What place is this?

    Where are we now?

     

    I am the grass.

    Let me work.

     

    by Carl Sandburg

    my favorite truck british and canada

    in British Vehicles

    Posted

    Well the Americans DID have plenty of time to produce their vehicles, did they not,.............not forgetting to mention they had no Blitz to worry about;

    For ANY Brit wwii vehicle to still be motoring, if you think about it, is amazing, in so far as after the war, and don't forget most were adapted pre war civilian motors, they were put to use by the vehicle starved buisness folk.

    American vehicles, on the other hand, by and large, were left to re-equip armys in europe, and in a lot of cases, were moth-balled for years.

     

    This is NOT a 'pop' at american vehicles etc, just my take on things. :)

     

    Andy

     

    OY 'aint it working this time? Sorry I'm afraid I consider any American vehicle of the Forties to be superior to any British truck.

     

    (rapid digging of deep trench with overhead protoection)

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