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To: nickcarraway

Yes. Waters was born in 1943 and was too young to have remembered his father.

And his father,...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Waters#Early_years

“Early Years”

“His father, the son of a coal miner and Labour Party activist, was a schoolteacher, a devout Christian, and a Communist Party member.[3]

In the early years of the Second World War, Waters’s father was a conscientious objector who drove an ambulance during the Blitz.[3] He later changed his stance on pacifism, joined the Territorial Army and was commissioned into the 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers as a Second Lieutenant on 11 September 1943.[4] He was killed five months later on 18 February 1944 at Aprilia, during the Battle of Anzio, when Roger was five months old.[5]”


8 posted on 09/24/2022 4:00:31 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: familyop

a devout Christian, and a Communist Party member -— wait, wut???


27 posted on 09/24/2022 5:59:28 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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