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By: - 1st March 2016 at 11:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
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Dambuster Johnny Johnson says what all of us think !
By: - 1st March 2016 at 13:37 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
True!
By: - 1st March 2016 at 15:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I agree
By: - 1st March 2016 at 21:51 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Johnny Johnson must also be aware of the fascist dictatorship currently being installed in this country, ( And I'll bet it makes him cringe in dis-belief ) which basically is putting 2 fingers up to all our forefathers who served in WW2 and doesn't seem to care about todays UK Forces either. ( www.ukcolumn.org ) People need to wake up---fast !!!! if not for themselves but for their kids and grandkids futures.
Bill T.
By: - 2nd March 2016 at 08:11 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Good for you "Johnnie", it comes to something when,not only is the national memorial to Bomber command funded by charity, but it is then topped by the national disgrace that this government cannot find itself to honour a campaign medal which has been denied to the surviving crewmen since 1945.
Yet (despite the fact they deserve them, no so offence intended) the French are giving the D-Day veterans long overdue Leigion D'honnour medals.
Still, I may not be in a position to offer the " Bomber Boys " a medal, but I'm glad to be part of the generation that feels they are owed the greatest respect.
I know if lead the country, I'd make sure they got one.
By: - 2nd March 2016 at 11:37 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
As a private initiative, perhaps the many in this country and abroad who feel most strongly about this omission, could gather their collective financial strength and commission a medal manufacturer to design a specific Bomber Command campaign medal to be recorded as offered 'on behalf of the people of Britain and the British Commonwealth'.
By: - 2nd March 2016 at 15:16 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Further on this matter. I e-mailed a medal manufacturer also offering a design service. They quickly replied, writing that a medal manufacturer known as Award Medals had, as a private initiative, already - some while ago - issued a commemorative medal for Bomber Command.
By: - 2nd March 2016 at 16:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Johnny Johnson must also be aware of the fascist dictatorship currently being installed in this country, ( And I'll bet it makes him cringe in dis-belief ) which basically is putting 2 fingers up to all our forefathers who served in WW2 and doesn't seem to care about todays UK Forces either. ( www.ukcolumn.org ) People need to wake up---fast !!!! if not for themselves but for their kids and grandkids futures.Bill T.
Time for your meds I think......
By: - 2nd March 2016 at 16:50 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Just relieved I have no "grandkids", although I do have grandchildren!!;)
By: - 2nd March 2016 at 19:57 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Johnny Johnson must also be aware of the fascist dictatorship currently being installed in this country, ( And I'll bet it makes him cringe in dis-belief ) which basically is putting 2 fingers up to all our forefathers who served in WW2 and doesn't seem to care about todays UK Forces either. ( www.ukcolumn.org ) People need to wake up---fast !!!! if not for themselves but for their kids and grandkids futures.Bill T.
If you are referring to our present government, agree wholeheartedly.
By: - 2nd March 2016 at 22:29 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Just look at the alternative Silver Fox - would you really want 'Comrade Corby' running the country ? ; )
By: - 3rd March 2016 at 08:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
If this gets much sillier someone will be comparing us to North Korea!!:highly_amused:
By: - 3rd March 2016 at 21:26 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
At the risk of appearing to want to defend "Dave" I think all post-war Govts, starting with that led by Churchill, have badly failed the men of Bomber Command.
By: - 4th March 2016 at 00:08 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
If this gets much sillier someone will be comparing us to North Korea!!:highly_amused:
Or perhaps various Americans which many in the UK don't like..or heaven forbid, Margaret Thatcher. They get much more scorn on this forum than North Korea or any number of dictatorships. :) :)
By: - 4th March 2016 at 00:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
If this gets much sillier someone will be comparing us to North Korea!!:highly_amused:
Or perhaps various Americans which many in the UK don't like..or heaven forbid, Margaret Thatcher. They get much more scorn on this forum than North Korea or any number of dictatorships. :) :)
By: - 4th March 2016 at 05:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I was actually making a flippant observation on the asinine assertion posted earlier comparing the current UK government to a facist dictatorship. However much it is despised by some, making that comparison, without any discernible trace of irony, is simply stupid.
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By: David_Kavangh - 1st March 2016 at 11:11
From the Daily Telegraph. I was at the IBCC fund raising event on Saturday. Johnny did actually have a go at all politicians, whatever their shade.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/12177903/Britains-last-Dambuster-launches-attack-on-David-Cameron-for-failure-to-mint-Bomber-Command-medal.html