Risk Question in Society and Culture

[Panic Button]

Can I draw the attention of my friends in B & S to this question in Society and Culture in case you haven't seen it.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Society-and-Cul ture/Question358825.html

The most amazing first answer.

I for one have done as he asks.

[curlyfilm]

on a serious note, i hava nothing but massive respect for these guys, you can never even think of what they went through, not just a 6 month tour, years of it, to return too a war savaged country, and then just having to get on with it,

[ummmm]

Makes you feel a little proud of them doesn't it?

[Joe_the_Lion]

Just signed it.

[curlyfilm]

and me................

[raysparx1]

They deserve total respect, it is only the general public that give it, i just signed.

[silverdaler]

Bless them all - i signed !

[bobtheduck-]

i couldnt get my pen to work

[smudge]

Both my husband & I signed too.

[battersby]

I've signed. Such bravery. I think we can only imagine just how brave all the armed forces were,not forgetting the Merchant Navy as without then there would have been no food or supplie's. I commend everyone who served in the war and those left at home like the women who had to bring up their children,keep them safe and fed,having to "Make do and mend". The Land Army's. I grew up near to an old airfield,we used to play in the carcuss's of war planes never realising then just how vital a role they played. Hero's and Heroine's, I salute you all.

[spurslady]

I just signed it, I think maybe the youth today should have just a little taster of what people in the forces have had to endure. Then maybe there would be more respect in the world.

Bring on more boot camps for offenders.

[fitdave]

Thank you for drawing this to our attention, I for one feel humbled by the bravery of those men (some young enough to be my children).
Glad you didn't mind me forwarding it to AB suggs.., and thanks for putting the 'link' straight.

[Lonnie]

I've also signed, and to add a little to what Daisy has said, a neighbour from a few years ago, (he's passed on now), was in the Merchant Navy, he was on the Russia run, he never spoke about his experiences, but as he got older, we helped look after him, and his body was covered in scars from the wounds he'd recieved during that time.

And of course, thats not forgetting, as she intimates, the bravery of everyone, regardless of ocupation, who, in their own way, stood up to the tyranny of the time.

[battersby]

Hiya Lonnie, My Dad was also on the russian run. 3 different ship's he was on were torpedoed and he saw a lot of his mates perish. Dad never spoke much about the war it was our mum who told us thing's. Dad had a red indent on his neck and I remember asking him as a kid what it was. " Thats where your mother hit me with a salt fish" he said and I believed him..duh. until mum told me different when I was older. The old war veteran's did'nt say much about their part in the war! Daisy.

[battersby]

Oh spurslady, I could'nt agree with you more! Can you imagine these " Oh so hard" gang's taking on the task's that a bootcamp gives out? Maybe for those proven 100% guilty of charges should be made to join up,now would'nt that sort the men from the boy's? Daisy.