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I served in the British RAF in my youth not conscripted but volunteered to go there and had lots of fun where they break you down and rebuild you as a fighting machine serving your country...but what I do not get is all the world war 2 shit...remembrance day nonsense and here is why....
Most of the people were conscripted and if you were not prepared to die for your king and country you were branded a coward and shot...
You were given 6 weeks to find out which end of a gun you shot out of...
You were told that as soon as the enemy saw you they would surrender no matter how much superior fire power they had..
Both the German gods and any other gods available would save you no matter what..
The British poppy thing is based on hundreds of soldiers on both sides of the war being mass buried in great big holes, covered and the only thing that grew from it was poppies that the drug lords of the time were not too keen to tell people what the actual poppy seeds were actually for..so sue me

James121 7 Nov 11
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Dad joined up in !940 when he was 15. I asked why and he said "It was an adventure and anyway there were bombs dropping all over the place. What was I supposed to do? Stay working at the factory and do nothing to stop it?"
It is not just that they served. So many went beyond the call and gave their all. Why? So that we can talk freely and enjoy the world that they gave us.

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Both of my Grandfathers served in the British Army in WWII. My parents were in London during the blitz and spoke often about food rationing. My grandfathers were proud to serve and were fortunate to come back to thier families.

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May I suggest looking up the music of 'Sods Opera'. You'll like Firth of (fucking) Forth I'm sure.
As for your point of view on Poppies. That's a deep socio-psychological one, but thanks to an education supplied by Scotland free of charge I will get around to providing an answer.
I'm a grandson of a D-Day Dodger.

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