Thursday, Aug 06, 2009
Harry the anti war hero, i wonder what he thought of the mess we are in today...Here's to Harry..
Yahoo: Farewell to Britain's last WW1 veteran
Thousands of people lined the streets of Wells, in Somerset, to pay their respects at the funeral of Britain's last First World War veteran, Harry Patch. Skip related content
Posted by happy mondays @ 07:21 PM (629 views) Add Comment
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1. uncle tom said...
Born less than a week after my grandfather, who also served in the trenches, and was also wounded.
He was also very reluctant to talk about his experiances until his last days, but even then refused to discuss how he came to win the MC, a medal that he kept, but always declined to wear.
The official citation reads "for leading an attack on an enemy machine gun position, and putting it out of action"
Still a teenager at the time, the carnage he inflicted on that day must have been utterly horrendous..
2. bidin'matime said...
At the risk of sounding churlish - did he get a good price for his house...? Sorry, but many people complain that the 'top 10' places on the blog get filled with irrelevant articles and, while Harry Patch deserves all the column inches he is getting elsewhere, as do many other topics, I have to wonder if this is the place.
3. titaniccaptain said...
Radio Head have done a strange yet haunting and moving tribute to him........his words.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8184000/8184802.stm
Lyrics taken from Harry's words:-
I am the only one that got through
The others died where ever they fell
It was an ambush
They came up from all sides
Give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves
I've seen devils coming up from the ground
I've seen hell upon this earth
The next will be chemical but they will never learn
Rest in peace Harry........Love TC
4. denzil said...
Good old Harry P.
5. happy mondays said...
@ 2, It's all related, Economies , Power, War..Innocents of the not well informed many..So yes bidin'matime you are sounding churlish..
6. inflation is eating my savings said...
Bidin'- WWI was a rather convenient escape for the ruling classes of most of the Belligerent nations. As it often is.The Russians and British were perhaps the most lucky for the onset. Civil unrest, General Strikes, High debt... It backfired for the Russians. Pattern repeated in the 30s. Boom, Bust, War.
TC- "give your leaders each a gun.....". Lovely idea- I suspect it is that simple, but the leaders don't have the balls anymore- much easier to send off a couple of million disenfranchised citizens to the trenches.
7. contrails are not a conspiracy (formerly npnh) said...
Inflation said “TC- "give your leaders each a gun.....". Lovely idea- I suspect it is that simple, but the leaders don't have the balls anymore- much easier to send off a couple of million disenfranchised citizens to the trenches.”
Yes but would you be prepared to follow the victor? Possibly not.
Anyway.
Harry Patch I salute you.