[Stoat]

Here's a salute from a proud Yank to all of our British Friends....please know that your losses are just as dear as our own, and you are all in our prayers.

Together we will be victorious, and the world will be a much better place..

 

[John Carey]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736743/posts

Very nice Tribute, Brit!

[tet68]

Jeez what a fine young man.
Prayers for his family.
tet.

[goldstategop]

Remembrance/Veterans Day Bump! In honor of all the soldiers living and dead who sacrificed for freedom since the Great War nearly a century ago.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[jamaksin]

Thank you.

" ... In Flanders fields they grow ..."

The Queen will visit the Cenotaph today in reverence.

[Northern Yankee]

An amazing and touching story.

Thank you!

[Beowulf]

I will remember Jamie Hancock at 11 o'clock ... and the sacrifice of all the heroes of the War on Terror.

Here's hoping the moonbat 'Rats don't cut 'n' run before the war is won.

[Stoat]

The Sun Online - News Salute to unsung 784 soldiers

 

Salute to unsung 784 soldiers

 

 
Veteran ... Guy Hatch in 1947 and now

 

By MARTIN PHILLIPS
November 11, 2006

 
HEROES of Britain’s “forgotten war” will today bow their heads in memory of 784 comrades killed 60 years ago in Palestine.

The survivors were among troops caught in the middle as two servicemen a DAY died trying to keep the peace between Jews and Arabs.

The terrible toll occurred between 1946 and Britain’s pullout in 1948.

Colonel Guy Hatch, 80, from Woolwich, South London, is among 1,000 surviving members of the Palestine Pals Association. He said: “There was trouble at all times and we were in the middle. My greatest recollection is how good our soldiers were.”

Eric Lowe, 78, of Hayling Island, Hants, said: “We were under siege. In Iraq today, if our boys are killed they are flown home and given a proper burial. When anyone died in Palestine they were buried there.”

[Stoat]

 
So brave ... sad Athena with mum Helen
inset, Gareth's coffin is carried in

Athena's grief for lost father

 
By JOHN COLES
November 11, 2006
 
FUNERAL mourners wept yesterday as a ten-year-old girl said goodbye to her RAF flier father with a deeply moving poem.

 

Little Athena Nicholas said dad Gareth, killed with 13 comrades in Afghanistan, was now “whispering in the clouds”.

And as mum Helen looked on proudly, she added: “I will visit you in your dreams.”

Gareth, a flight lieutenant with No120 Squadron, died in September’s shocking crash in which a Nimrod spy plane exploded minutes after being refuelled in mid-air.

He was 40.

Only-child Athena choked back tears as she read her poem — My Dad — at the church service in St Columb Minor, Cornwall, near the family’s Newquay home.

It ended with the lines: “I wish he was still with me/And he’s whispering in the clouds/I will visit you in your dreams/And we shall roam free/Playing in the grassy fields/Definitely you and me.”

The funeral — the first for the Nimrod victims — was attended by 300 mourners.

 

Memorial ... devoted dad Gareth and
inset, flowers from his girls
 

 

Gareth’s coffin was carried into the church draped in the Union flag with his cap on top. His CO Jerry Kessell called Athena’s poem “an incredibly moving part of the ceremony”. He added: “The service was a wonderful reflection of Gareth’s life and how he was determined to see right by his family.”

The Nimrod went down just after Gareth and Helen celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary. The flier’s final text message to his wife read: “15 years and one day.”

Both Helen and Athena received a letter from Gareth after the tragedy.

In a statement Helen said: “He was a handsome, funny, fun-loving, caring, enthusiastic and energetic man who was generous with his time. I feel very privileged that he was in my life for 18 years and have many wonderful memories of our time together.”

She added: “He doted on our daughter Athena and always had time to explain things to her.” Helen heard about the crash on the news before two uniformed men arrived on her doorstep. She said: “Unfortunately, I knew what this meant.”

[bannie]

God Bless and watch over our own soldiers, as well as our alies.

We're in this for the right reasons.

[Twinkie]

The 11th month, the 11th day and the 11th hour . . was called Armistice Day when we were taught about it in school . .