remembering loved ones in the forces

[zzxxee]

if you have lost a loved one due to war, or if someone is out fighng somewhere like iraq, or you have a story about your time in the forces,
feel free to post on this forces post,
anything you like really as long as its forces related

I would like to remember my 2 grandads bill and sidney one in the raf one in the army no longer with us but they lived a full life rip grampies xx

[jackthehat]

I shall be giving thanks for;
1. a very important person who has been and safely returned.........and for some of his friends who didn't.
2. 2 great-uncles killed in the Great War.......and I have recently discovered that neither of them are commemorated on a British war-memorial.

[jno]

how did that happen, jack? (Or rather not happen.) Did their towns not put up memorials? I thought just about everyone did.

[zzxxee]

i for one was glad when mr zzxxee left the royal marines in 2003 and came back safely from iraq when many of his friends did not xxxxx

[what..the?]

can people give me a hand with something forces related. I send boxes out to the troops on the frontline through a charity I keep trying to get samples from companies to put in these boxes.. I just got an email from a company saying they donate to an organisation who hands out the items to the needy charities. I though wow possible chance we can get donations from them. It turns out you have to pay for the items a so called handling and postage cost but this fee they say equates to roughly 10-20% of the usual market value cost. Which sounds more than just a handling postage charge they are making money on charities surley if they get the items for free as excess end of line stock?? I have also looked at the items currently for sale and the prices ....well it looks like makro/bookers/cash and carry prices not something for charities. Please if anyone has the time to help can you take a look at the site and prices and tell me what you think of the prices???

http://www.inkinddirect.org/

[jackthehat]

They were missed off !!
My grandmothers brother died (unmarried) aged 20 and my grandfathers brother died (also unmarried) aged 18. The same township in Lancashire, too !

I'm in the process of remedying the situation, I hope, because in a generation or so, there'll be no-one to remember that they ever lived...........let alone died for their country.

[rowanwitch]

And it's not only the deaths actually in service...a friend committed suicide some years after leaving the armed forces...too many spells in Northern Ireland, possibly undiagnosed PTSD ... flashbacks and nightmares never left him as far as I can tell..
so cheers Ronan...I won't forget your kindness

[Bbbananas]

For my Uncle Maurice who fought in Burma in WW2 as a very young man. He came back with malaria which has since been dormant for years. He is now fighting for his life in hospital with a pre-leukaemic condition, maybe or maybe not related to the previous malaria infection.

A brave man, but who will never talk about the bad experiences. He has been invited by the Burmese President to go back next year for a big 'thank you' ceremony - he has refused as he does not want to remember "all that stuff".

A real ladies man and a charmer. And a drinker. No children - they were unable to have any. Get well soon Uncle Mo. You lecherous old lush (Sqad - he's your type of man - you strike me as being very alike x)

[mccfluff]

a friend of mine, he lived next door to me for a bit, he was lovely a real sweetheart, i still miss him :-(

[zzxxee]

Lovely tributes here xxx

[zzxxee]

your uncle sounds a real charachter salla x

[Bbbananas]

Oh he was..he is. It's hard to see him so frail and weak at the moment. He's always been so full of cheek, charm and character. He was the one who first introduced me to gin and fast cars (at the age of 13!!!). I am his surrogate daughter.

Actually, I feel pretty awful, cos I realised I put Burma previously - I actually think it was the Korean War. He would only have been 12 when it was the Burma campaign. And it is the Korean president who has asked him to return for a thank-you ceremony. Brave, even so. My error.

[zzxxee]

i am sure your very proud of him salla and rightly so
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[Bbbananas]

Haven't always been - the old lech was sometimes a bit embarrassing when he crossed that boundary between banter and sexual harrassment!! Offering to bath myself and my friend Lil at the age of 11 - not on! Still asking us to sit on his knee at 39 - mmmmm, not really.

And he's a Mason - all that funny handshake business and nudge wink scratch my back. And his drink-driving ban, then the drink-biking ban. Gin in the afternoons when he should have been building people's houses.... Church on sunday followed by a mega Fosters-up in the pub....

But yes, I am proud. Mostly. He's a great character. x

[zzxxee]

lol sal not good asking to bath his 11 year old niece though agreed !!!!