This is a collection of 45 photos of the Battle of Britain just put up on the Atlantic website. The photos are amazing, and serve as a reminder of the fact that defense budget cuts can have bad consequences. Continued on Page 47
Posted by: Matt ||
07/11/2011 00:00 ||
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This is a remarkable series of pictures. I met a Turkish Cypriot fruit stand vendor in the early morning in a Sunday in July in London, 1982. He said that the city was not fully repaired from the bombing until 1962.
The spirit of defiance of the Londoners was amazing. It is tragic to see what England has become since then.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
07/11/2011 10:08 Comments ||
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A lot of those Londoners were smiling. They were smiling while taking shelter in a train tunnel and a girl was smiling, dirtied but apparently uninjured after being rescued from a bombed out building. A shop keeper worked on a sign that said "Business as usual." How are you gonna beat people like that?
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One has only to look back 3 or 4 generations to see how far down the road to serfdom and collapse we have come.
Imagine present day Brits or Americans facing that level of hardship. Not a pretty thought. Only our military and veterans hold that resevoir of grit anymore. Remind me again how many vets now serve in Congress or the White House?
Q.E.D.
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I remember when the movie Battle of Britain was made.
A news crew was out on the streets asking people about it.
I clearly recall one person who, when asked the question, stared blankly at the camera for a few seconds then said "I work for the government so I should not comment on it".
Posted by: kelly ||
07/11/2011 16:28 Comments ||
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Nice addition GulfBravoUSMC. It was good to listen to Churchill again. His words echo a time of sadness but of greatness as well. The British Tommy and the words of their young Queen brings back allot of history. The spirit is still there and here. The person of the time will come forward soon I hope and in our case return the statue of Churchill. I hope before things get too buggered up.
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Thanks Dale, the love of my life, Kilo Bravo is a tough Brit. She broke her arm near Nevada Falls in Yosemite two weeks ago. We strapped her arm against her body with our windbreakers and she hiked the three miles to the valley floor for first aid.
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The remarkable Battle of Britain photos are part 4 of a 20-part photo series on WWII that the Atlantic is running. Part 1-3 are equally noteworthy and I'm sure the subsequent parts will be well worth viewing. Thanks, Matt.
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Good show for Kilo Bravo, especially on the section of trail where you go through the mist of Vernal Falls.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
07/11/2011 21:40 Comments ||
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#26 and #30 where very touching. I would hope the ppl of today would take such selfless measures as the woman in 26 and hope the child in 30 was well taken care of after this
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07/11/2011 23:08 Comments ||
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