What has been the greatest moment of your life?

[Willy Dangle]

Another quite boring one.

Being there when WE raised THAT flag in Port Stanley in 1982

Thanks Pal, don't ever underestimate your achievement and contribution.

 

[Bry Nylon]

We attended an especially nasty RTC one Saturday afternoon - a refrigerated lorry had collided head on with a transit van. The driver of the van was in a bad way, his legs mangled in the steering column and he was losing a lot of blood. The extrication was complicated, time consuming and stressful, with the on-scene paramedics giving us frequent countdowns of how long we had left to get the casualty out. The prognosis wasn't good. He wasn't expected make the operating theatre, and if he did he certainly wasn't expected to ever walk again. Eventually, after what seemed liked an age and using all our specialist cutting equipment, combined with invention, inspiration and sweat, we finally got the guy out and into the helicopter and that was the end of that. Or so we thought.

About six months later, he appeared in our drill yard whilst we were training, being pushed in a wheel chair by his daughter, his legs all pinned and screwed up and a case of Stella on his lap. We all stopped what we were doing and lined up. Slowly,agonizingly, he got up and gave us all a can of beer.

I must admit I had a tear in my eye, but to be fair I do ****ing love Stella.

 

[MissGull]

When I was 11, I was the youngest person in the country that year to get a GCSE. (Grade A)

 

[stripeyshark]

Best moment may be singing in the final song in an opera at Glynebourne. I was right in the middle on a multi storey stage structure. Magical moment at the end of months of rehearsal!

Best time of my life was at the 2006 World Cup.

 

[stripeyshark]

When I was 11, I was the youngest person in the country that year to get a GCSE. (Grade A)

Nice! I got one when I was 12. Too many whizz kids aged 4 now though.

 

[Goring-by-Seagull]

Family and stuff aside, getting my first 300 game in ten pin bowling was pretty special (my rather elderly dad was there to see it, makes it quite a lot better) Although no bugger bothered to film that.

My second, earlier this year was caught on film, and I consider it essential viewing.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Getting balls deep in a Welsh lass on Monday night.

 

[Rowdey]

the whole of my first Tribal Gathering

If it was the one in '93, I was there, and it was indeed amazing and totally FULL ON; that whole breaking scene was..
The Falklands thing is on a different amazing level too btw, huge respect to you.

Not on your level, but climbing Kilimanjaro, with just a quick afternoons prep walk into town was brilliant. The sun coming up and just about seeing the curvature of the earth at 6ish after climbing the past night at windchill of -20 odd, was totally worth it.
My 1983 fa cup final scarf and bobble hat can claim to be the highest place a piece of BHA stuff has ever been i think.

We also taught the Guides/porters (same as Comic relief, but 5 years before) and some Danish how to play Sh*thead and drink properly afterwards too. Which we won. Which was nice.

 

[Adders1]

Completing my Premier League 1994 sticker album. EPIC

Gutted, i was only one sticker away (Roger Johnson of Wimbledon)

Probably still would punch him if i ever met him.

 

[HovaGirl]

Mine are very simple.

Winning the high jump, aged 10, when I was smaller than everyone else.
Being chosen for the school relay swimming team aged 12 having only just learnt to swim. (Luckily, it was in the K.A. minor pool.)
Winning a darts tournament going out from a score of 119.
Receiving my degree when I was a Mum to toddlers. (They, of course, being the utterly best thing which ever happened to me apart from marrying HovaBoy.)

 

[OzMike]

Returning to the Romanian orphanages for a second stint and seeing the work on first trip had made a real difference.
Working on second trip on other improvements and the kids remembering who I was and mobbing me.

 

[rcf0712]

the births of both my kids combined with my wife surviving both events

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

I volunteered for a Forces bereavement charity where we take kids who had lost their parents in the military away for adventure weeks.

One week I had pulled some strings and aranged for the Red Devils to jump in next to the YHA, its was all a secret and the kids didnt know until the ground team showed up and gave a intro. They jumped, did their stacks and turns, let the kids play with their kit and then everyone played footy until it was dark. The faces on the kids was amazing and every adult there cried at least once.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I have thought about this and the one single most greatest moment was obtaining my degree. I come from quite a humble background and no other members of my family had ever been to university before; both my brother and myself were the first. I owe a lot to my parents for this; not for being pushy or anything but when I decided this was my way forward they were supportive. This was some time ago and in the days when the country supported its people to get as educated as they can; had I been thinking about uni now the thought of being saddled with a 30k debt would have made me think twice.

 

[jimhigham]

Feeling a little inadequate right now. Big respect to you all, especially the life savers.

 

[Peter Grummit]

Walking out of Patcham Fawcett for the last time in June 1979.

None of this hugging and sign my tshirt crap. Just run down the hill as fast as we could to catch the 5B and never look back...

For me, making a success of my own Company having been made redundant comes to mind. As a one-off event, Newcastle 79 was quite good.

PG

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Feeling a little inadequate right now. Big respect to you all, especially the life savers.

Here here.

 

[Mowgli37]

When I was 11, I was the youngest person in the country that year to get a GCSE. (Grade A)

Impressive! Finding out I'd done best in the year for Geography at the end of Year 11 was a good moment.

Winning the high jump, aged 10, when I was smaller than everyone else.

One sports day they had to race all the Year Nines and Tens together in the 1500m as we were rapidly approaching 3pm. In year Nine at the time, I beat them all by some way

 

[Ian Bairds Fist]

Not boring at all. I was watching it on TV, back home thousands of miles away, awestruck with what you and your comrades had achieved and the sacrifices you had made.

It still has a big impact on me today and the choices I have made in my life, and I always make a point of Remembering and ensuring my children do too.

Only two words, Dave. Thank you.

 

[Puppet Master]

Not my all time greatest moment but Virgo's last minute goal against Swindon felt like the best orgasm I'd ever had.