Cenotaph climber revealed

[steward 433]

i find it hard to post on these subjects without coming over as being 'oooo LOOK AT ME'....i really do hope i forget about this thread by the time i get back from the pub.
me + beer + seeing certain posts by absolute COCKS = infractions/bannings.
my only wish, is that none of you ever have to stand at a memorial service with the memories i have going round in my head......going round in YOURS

WORD

 

[Giraffe]

He should be given all the necessary cleaning equipment and told to remove all graffitti put on any monuments or statues and then put in the stocks for a week. Absolutely disgusting behaviour.

 

[Storer68]

There aren't any people inside Auschwitz anymore. But I think we'd all feel pretty sick if a bunch of guys started pissing around there, acting in a disrespectful manner - surely ?

Here's one!

 

[Pete and Sarah]

Really angry with much of this. Dad, who was in Burma WW2, died 20 years ago remembering it all - he is as much remembered by me at the Cenotaph as if he had died in the jungle.
How dare these stupid kids.

 

[Uncle C]

The biggest put down for this turd is that many people thought he was girl.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Fetishising the celebration of our glorious war heroes is intrinsically nationalistic. I''ve had to sit and listen to crass lectures from Serbs and Croats and Albanians who were trying to justify ethnic cleansing, and you know what a lot of their arguments involve the glorious defenders of the nation whose memories must be protected by driving women children and the elderly from their homes with a healthy dose of rape and murder, so you know I have a low tolerence level on these kind of things.

The Cenotaph is not a celebration of glory, but a momument to the fallen, an empty tomb. Designed by Edwin Lutyens, it's scale is deliberate so as not to be some overbearing monument of victory, it's design is plain and restrained. Everything about the Cenotaph is to do with the pain of those lost, and nothing to do with victory, or glory or anything else you have mentioned.

The Cenotaph is really in protest of war, it is a reminder of the unacceptable sacrifice man faces in conflict.

What you have stated you hearing in your lectures is truly abhorrent, awful. But men & women fell trying to stop the persecution. Men and women from around the world went to help the elderly, the women and the children you mention, and some of them gave their lives doing it. I for one will always remember them for that.

 

[hart's shirt]

Beatifully put, Bold Seagull. Couldn't agree more.