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Remembrance Sunday
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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Horrific programme about Shell Shock : truly disturbing stories from WW1, WW2, the Falklands, the Gulf and Afghanistan.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0brzl3w/wwis-secret-shame-shell-shock
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0brzl3w/wwis-secret-shame-shell-shock
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old repeated on Saturday, BBC2, 9.00 pm.
LEONARD
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I found this deeply moving, my grandfather (born in Birmingham) served in WW1, badly wounded, shipped back to Liverpool, met my grandmother, and the rest is history as they say.
Very rarely spoke of his experiences. What a generation of men and women, we can all be truly proud of them.
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My mother had three brothers in WW1. Two were in the army and were gassed, one spent 25 years in a mental hospital after the war. The youngest joined up at 18 and was in the Navy. None of them ever spoke about their experiences except on one occasion. The Uncle who was in the Navy told us that when he was due to join his ship, the ship was at sea. He was dropped off at an uninhabited island in Scappa Flow where Navy stores were kept. He was there alone for a week waiting for his ship to come for supplies. When he was dropped off, they told him that sometimes the Germans came and pinched the stores and if they did, he had to hide. He was 18 years old.
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