Reminds me of a joke told me by a Chelsea Pensioner 

 

Young trooper gets battle fatigue and cracks, runs back from the battle and
shooting, keeps running blindly till he gets farther from the noise and
explosions, he trips and falls banging his head on a shiny pair of boots
..........

 

and a booming voice shouts ..............

 

"What the H*** do you think you are doing here trooper?"

 

"I'm sorry sergeant I couldn't take it any more" 

 

"What the H*** do you mean sergeant? I am a General!"

 

"Wow" says the trooper "I did not realise I had been running back that
long!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Mike Robinson
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 5:54 PM
To: List Churchill; [email protected]
Subject: [ChurchillChat] Re: Van Johnson Died

 


Van Johnson starred in one of the best war movies ever made...
"Battleground"... about the battle of the bulge... told from the point of
view of the infantrymen who had to fight it... in the mud... rather than
that of the brass...  back in the rear with the beer and the gear... MR

--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Anthony Calabrese <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Anthony Calabrese <[email protected]>
Subject: [ChurchillChat] Van Johnson Died
To: "List Churchill" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 11:59 AM

Van Johnson, a star from the golden age of Hollywood, died today.  When
reading his obituary, I noticed that he painted as a hobby.  In an interview
20 or so years ago, he said how he started:
 
"I was on the Onassis yacht with Winston Churchill. He got his canvas out
and so did I. He was working away, and he growled at me, `Don't just sit
there and stare! Get some paint and splash it on!'" 

ANyway, thought I would pass that along.

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it necessary. No one is patriotic about taxes."  -- George Orwell, Wartime
Diary, September 8, 1940.


 

 





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