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GuruRatings , " Tony OClery " <aoclery wrote:

 

GuruRatings , " Tony OClery " <aoclery@> wrote:

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> GuruRatings , " anabebe57 " <kailashana@> wrote:

> >

> > I interrupt this moment of silence to give thanks in observance of the 65th

anniversary of D-day.

> >

> > " A person who saves even one innocent person saves all of humanity. "

> >

> > " A person who kills even one innocent person kills all of humanity. "

> >

> > paraphrased from The Holy Koran.

> >

> > ~A

> >

> Namaste A,

>

> Yes my uncle who is in his nineties now was in the first wave of Irish Guards

to hit the beaches...I have listened to his stories...WWII was a classic example

of violence in defence of Ahimsa or non harm...Tony.

 

Namaste,

I should add that he told me most of his comrades actually drowned in the too

deep water. Their back packs pulling them over backwards, in the face of machine

gun fire. He was a sergeant, Michael Shields is his name. He made it up the

beach to the town but was hit by shrapnel from a morter round within two weeks

of landing. He was evacuated to a hospital in Wales to recover, but he still has

shrapnel in his legs.I visit him whenever I am visiting my mother, his sister.

 

Another 'Uncle' as he wasn't a blood relative, but my Aunt's partner, died in

Burma and got the VC just shortly before the end of the war.He was a lieutenant

and threw himself in a Japanese bunker pulling the pin out of a grenade so

killing himself and the Japanese but saving his platoon who were green recruits

mostly...Basil Weston V.C.

 

Another uncle drove sps and fought all the way to Germany before being

transferred to India. My father volunteered to fight in Abyssinia and North

Africa and ended up in the Indian Army fighting tribesmen in the Peshawar, and

Swat area of now Pakistan...Cheers

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