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| Thread ID: 146116 | 2018-04-25 02:47:00 | Anzac Memorial | Poppa John (284) | PC World Chat |
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| 1448871 | 2018-04-25 02:47:00 | Hi All The last time I was at the service was a very long time ago at the Old Papatoetoe Library Memorial plaque. When the bugler playd Last Post on a real Bugle. I stood there with tears running down my face. Today I watched the service on TV1 & when it came to the las Post it affected me similar. Wiping my yes with my hankie. Now a nitpick.. Duncan Garner was the newsreader on TV1.He spoke about various services. As usual wit an open necked shirt as is now normal on TV. Now.....It wood be common decency, to me to have worn at least a Black Tie. End of nitpick. PJ Incidentally, the bugle was a genuine copper one, no buttons. Battered & scratched but polished & shiny. Somebody had found it & refurbished it. The army bugler who played it must have practiced as he was note perfect. Those Bugles had a sound all of their own. Didn't the Roman Army of old use Bugles on the battlefield to tell the troops what to do? PJ |
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| 1448872 | 2018-04-25 06:42:00 | I'm quite sure that they used trumpets instead . They were long and tapered and could play just four notes as they had no valves and they could only modulate to multiples of their lengths . I also don't think they had perfected the technique of coiling the tubing around in circles either - to make it easier to carry in your pocket or saddle bag . Someone can interject there and tell us the physics of that situation - I'm at a loss for words . Speaking of a loss of words though - I was a Navy Veteran of VietNam and another police action by the US - plus a few astronaut splash-downs in the Pacific . I was also a side boy for President Nixon and President Teu of VietNam (if that's the correct spelling) for their Midway Island Peace Conference . The point of this is that every time I have to communicate with the US Veterans' Administration, the final statement by them is: "Thank-you for your service" . I tell them I wouldn't do it again and I'm fairly ashamed of the first time . My dad was so upset that (see if you can remember this story) the Somali Pirates had gotten onto a US flagged vessel, and then the (before Trump) President apologized for it ----- . My dad said: "My country has let me down, and now I chose to die" . If a flag-waving, "My Country Right Or Wrong" type nationalist said that - well, you get it ---- right? He told me he was particularly angry that the War of The Barbary Pirates and all that Halls Of Montezuma stuff was now null-and-void and that a US Apologist-President had taken that military history and destroyed it all . Those weren't quite the words he used --- but there are rules about language like his here, and I'm no Metla . Anyway ----> He died three months later at 96+ years old . He was very outspoken . I never knew either of my parent's ages until they actually died and I got to see the death certificates . Crazy huh? It is an old Irish/English/Mezo-European thing to NOT talk about such things as age in the family circle . I guess . . . . . . bedtime ----- snarffle . |
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| 1448873 | 2018-04-25 07:23:00 | Hmm yes Joe where I was born and a few others on here were born there too, it still all Stiff upper lip and don't show you're emotions | gary67 (56) | ||
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