[MoMo]

MD, have you ever seen the TV series 'The Valour and the Horror' written by two brothers named McKenzie. Caused quite a stir up here in Canada. Veterans of WWII were looking to string them up. We shouldn't have sent troops to Singapore, Dieppe or any other place the incompetant British were waging war. The bombing of Dresden was portrayed as overkill and Bomber Harris as a heartless murderer. Never mind the casualties brought about by the blitz of 1940 or the indiscriminate V2 launches against civilians thereafter. We have many pariahs in our midst. The two therefore mentioned have concluded that countries like England,Sweden. Finland,Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France and Poland Should only retaliate by beating Germany at a friendly game of football(soccer to you) to settle old scores, so to speak. A POX ON ALL REVISIONISTS.

I recorded these documentaries when they were first transmitted here. They were NEVER repeated!

I still have them. It gave me the impression that ALL Canadians wanted to turn their backs on the contribution made by your brilliant fighting men!

MoMo

Thanks, Tophat, I can see why the bugger got the chop!

Death to all revisionists!

[tank nut]

Hey top hat, bob and doug Mckenzie of the great white north are two love able drunk canuks that use to be on tv back in the 80's they had a movie strange brew good for a laugh. To bad that they did not write the movie instead of the other two Mckenzie bros. They would have done a whole lot better I'm sure. They would not make the vets as made as the other two Mckenzie bros did. I seen the documentery back in the 90's and it made a lot of people not to happy

[TopHat]

Where's my tuque, you hoser!?!

[tank nut]

LOL hey top hat you hoser!! Would you like some molsen eh!!! Great beer better then bud lol

[STARMAN 352ND]

Originally Posted by MoMo

I recorded these documentaries when they were first transmitted here. They were NEVER repeated!

I still have them. It gave me the impression that ALL Canadians wanted to turn their backs on the contribution made by your brilliant fighting men!

MoMo

Thanks, Tophat, I can see why the bugger got the chop!

Death to all revisionists!

I need to get a copy of that to watch it MoMo.
JP

[PH-LKK]

Originally Posted by swoop

MD, have you ever seen the TV series 'The Valour and the Horror' written by two brothers named McKenzie. Caused quite a stir up here in Canada. Veterans of WWII were looking to string them up. We shouldn't have sent troops to Singapore, Dieppe or any other place the incompetant British were waging war. The bombing of Dresden was portrayed as overkill and Bomber Harris as a heartless murderer. Never mind the casualties brought about by the blitz of 1940 or the indiscriminate V2 launches against civilians thereafter. We have many pariahs in our midst. The two therefore mentioned have concluded that countries like England,Sweden. Finland,Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France and Poland Should only retaliate by beating Germany at a friendly game of football(soccer to you) to settle old scores, so to speak. A POX ON ALL REVISIONISTS.

Well, Dresden *was* overkill. Quite literally so. I don't know of any serious historian (military and nonmilitary) who views it otherwise. And I think it is quite healthy to debate the morality of carpet bombing. But you're quite right to argue that a serious moral critique of the conduct of allied armies during WWII should not blind us to the very real and immediate threat they faced, or to the horrors visited by axis forces upon all who would, could or might oppose them.

[TopHat]

I love it...

Start a war, get your a-- kicked, then bitch and moan about how unfair it was that your a-- got kicked.


And yes, a good game of soccer would really have shown them we meant business! Right....

[jim]

There was I thinking my Dad was Hero and it turns out that all he did was swan around the Med and the Italian Riviera enjoying skippering his little landing craft.

He called in at some lovely places, Sicily Salerno Anzio. He liked Anzio so much that he stayed for 4 months, (maybe he gave pleasure trips around the bay) there must have been some nice beaches there.

I must admit he was a little careless, he seemed to keep losing his friends, perhaps they went home early.

[TopHat]

I'm not going to go further into a tirade over this pansy-a-- bullsh--, but a line concerning freedom and blankets uttered by Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men" comes to mind.

[Captain Eddie]

Originally Posted by MoMo

From 1939 to 1946 my dad was on vacation too. The first stop of his tour was to France, but he just got off the boat when he, and the rest of his tour group, " The Cameronians " had to get back on. " France was cancelled!" They were told.

Oh, Well, back to England and some nice training to keep the boys fit.

Where to next? "Oh!" said my dad. " Let's all go to the Far East!"

" How will we travel?"

" Let's go on a cruise via Cape Town, and then we can go on from there to India. Oh, and yes, let's take in Burma too."

What a wonderful cruise my dad had. All the luxuries of ocean liner travelling. Great food, plenty of sea-air and an on-board fitness program designed to keep everyone fit. They even let him play with the ship's Bofors guns, just for practise.

Wow! Across South Africa, then on another ship to India. My dad must have been rolling in cash back then because in those days such a cruise would have cost a fortune.

Next stop, the steaming humidity of Bombay and from there a grand train ride to the foothills of Mount Everest and " Kitchen Jungle " ( Katchengunga ). Then Assam, and then on to Burma. He must have liked Burma a lot because he stayed there and did a walking tour of the whole place. He first walked to the East, then walked back to the West, then he walked back to the East, just for the hell of it! It took him years, he said. But he was alright because there were a great group of lads along for the trip.

One morning there was a lot of fuss when the lads were informed that someone had dropped a bomb somewhere and that they would all soon be going home. it took him six months to arrange a passage.

I wonder why he went?

Great satire, MoMo! I by no means always agree with you, but you do have a way with words.