90th anniversary of the battle of the Somme!

[wayneyboy1942]

Today is the 90th anniversary of the battle of the Somme!
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...530892,00.html
I used know someone who was badly wounded in this battle, and he used to say that in war everyone lose's!
Lets hope that one day the human race will take note and live in peace!

[Mercury]

I looked after someone in a residential home that fought in the first world war. The nightmares he used to have were horrific for him, he told me one night that he relived everything, and used to dream he was getting shot, and his shrapnel wounds would hurt as much as they did when it happened, but when he woke up, the pain was in his heart for the people he killed, for their families and his friends that got killed. He said whoever said war was glorious, never fought in a war. He's now died, and I hope that he has found the peace he was searching for after the first world war.

[ryhunt2000]

I had an uncle and great uncle who fought in this war. Great uncle was partially gassed and suffered damage to one leg and had to use a stick, my uncle never was the same. He joined up underage, and he was always a very nervous, agitated person, although he was a lovely person inside.

We are supposed to be the apex of God's creation, higher than the rest of all living things because we have rational thinking. Where are our brains? When will we learn that nobody is a winner after a war. There is so much emotional destruction as well as physical destruction. What mother wants to have a son who has to go to fight battles and die in the process, just to satisfy the few who decide it is necessary. I think eventually the mothers will be so outraged they are the ones who will start to make the difference. There will never be complete peace until each individual heart is changed and thinks in a different way towards his neighbour.

Blessings, Ry

[milly]

my sister and her husband went over they said it was so touching...........they got some photos...........of Charlie and his mrs......

[milly]