Bomber boys - bbc one

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Dutch

My bold.

Yes.

commemorate |kəˈmeməˌrāt|
verb [ with obj. ]
recall and show respect for (someone or something) in a ceremony: a wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the war dead.
• serve as a memorial to: a stone commemorating a boy who died at sea.
• celebrate (an event, a person, or a situation) by doing or building something: it was a night commemorated in a song.

[bongodriver]

right, so according to your arm-twisting logic, it would be ok to have a statue of Gary Glitter for his "musical achievements"?

I will do one of your responses here.......

you always have to generalise. It's not like the whole UK agrees about that statue as you know, that's my point. I just find it intolerable, like I wouldn't like a statue of Mussolini, Pol-Pot, Bin Laden etc...

Ok so you aren't generalising the UK, thats nice to hear finally, so why exactly have we been debating, you heard what the general oppinion is of Harris's statue......controversy and division, hardly a united front bowing down at it's feet.

And still you like to hide behind the curtain of "stop bashing the Brits you ungrateful bugger!".. if I made the statement about Hitler's statue that Hood did, god knows what you would have accused me of..

But you really do alot of Brit bashing, almost every thread like this one you seem to get involved with accusations of Nationalist bias....blah blah, no hiding behind the curtain for you........and as a Brit I find it offensive.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

I will do one of your responses here.......

well, there you go. You think it's silly, so do I. In the end of the day what specific achievements did the Area Bombing of Harris generate? None. Without even going into the moral aspect of things, under a military point of view, the logistic strain and the price toll in terms of crews and aircraft he caused didn't justify his strategy, am I wrong? The fact that a selected number of airmen show devotion for their commander doesn't necessarily mean he did the right thing, does it?

Ok so you aren't generalising the UK, thats nice to hear finally, so why exactly have we been debating, you heard what the general oppinion is of Harris's statue......controversy and division, hardly a united front bowing down at it's feet.

Once again, and I'll make it bold so hopefully it will stay: it's not a general attack to the UK, it's finding controversial and unnecessarily provocative to raise a full body monument to Bomber Harris and trying to make it more acceptable by dedicating it to the Bomber Command, it's like making a fullsize monument in the shape of the A-Bomb and dedicating it to the USAAF.

But you really do alot of Brit bashing, almost every thread like this one you seem to get involved with accusations of Nationalist bias....blah blah, no hiding behind the curtain for you........and as a Brit I find it offensive.

So what? I do a lot of other bashing too, it just happens to be that when I bash the Brit it generates an uncommonly self-righteous tirade.. I wonder why?