In the Army Now - The joy of the Armed ForcesI've never been a soldier. I was an air cadet once, but that mostly involved sitting in a mouldy hut learning about aeroplane engines with the hint that one day we might go flying.
Yet, anyone who has spent time defending their nation, or at least drinking bromide-laced-tea for their nation, must have stories to tell. Tell them now.
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chthonic, Thu 23 Mar 2006, 18:26)
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Hi blackdogmanguitarI don’t mean to cast aspersions about your uncles story, but I would love to know how he managed to drive a British Army truck through a couple of Thousand miles of enemy occupied territory, across the Pyrenees mountains, through border checkpoints into a country that whilst was technically neutral during the war, was still a Fascist controlled country that had won their recent civil war because the Germans lent them their Luftwaffe, and still made it back to Blighty.
If he did, fair enough. It would have probably been easier to swim the bloody channel!
Ninja Edit: Good point blackdogmanguitar (see reply above), I had an uncle that walked out of the Burmese jungle 4 (four) years after the war ended, I think he had been fighting the Japanese & had gone slightly native.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 28 Mar 2006, 10:52,
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