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RIP Captain Tom

Think we are all feeling morose with so many dying all around us and sick ....I have lost count now ..at one point I was planning my jobs in case I died the next day , now I just plan for a possibility of a week . Totally extraordinary!!

Mrs was out taking food to friends with covid, another can't walk up stairs without help ( fit healthy guy younger than me )

Colleagues in itu...The list goes on ....

Its a miracle sir Tom made it to 100!!
 
Two friends from the church where I play died today (one a member of my choir). Then this. Not a great day.

RIP Sir.
 
There was a clip of him on some BBC programme from about 40 years ago, quiz thing I think, he looked like mr ordinary, a pretty unremarkable looking guy but it's totally remarkable how some people are destined for something huge in their life and have already left a mark somewhere in the past as a sort of marker.

I read his Obit and he organised his regiment's annual regimental dinner for about forty years, he also married late in life when he was about forty, his met his wife when he was a traveling salesman she died in 2006 of dementia and didn't know who he was at the end, he looked after her for two years then when she died he went to live with his daughter and her family, an incredible man.

RIP Sir Tom.

Hitherto, his only brush with fame had been an appearance on the BBC television quiz show Blankety Blank on Christmas Day 1983.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/02/capt-sir-tom-moore-obituary

Post-war After he came out of the army Sir Tom raced his Scott motorbike around Yorkshire and won several cups and medals. He also organised the annual reunion of his regiment for 64 years – the longest continual annual reunion in the Duke of Wellington Regiment.


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RIP - the very definition of a 'good' life.

Jolly good innings - not many men get to close to their century. Never mind at 99 fundraising millions.
 
eternumviti said:
I felt very morose about this, despite it ghastly inevitability. Somehow he has come to represent his generation, ordinary men and women who had to rise, and rose, to extraordinary events, and who are finally, agonisingly, passing over the horizon.
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Of all the crap we have had in the past year losing Sir Tom has been the thing that really knocked me.
 
Barrymagrec said:
What sort of sub human scum would do this to a 100 year old man?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-56085814
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Some people are just crap, that’ll never change. I’m glad his family managed to shield him from it. I’m also glad he got that last holiday with his family, especially since it turns out it was his last opportunity. He deserved that quality time, he earned it, not just in the last year of his life, but for all of it. In his final year, aside from raising a monumental sum of money for a much needed cause, he inspired people and he lifted our spirits when many of us were feeling doomed. He was a fine human being, and he will be remembered as such for many years to come.
 
twotone said:
There was a guy in Forfar, I think, charged with this shit, seemingly the guy who taught his dog to do a Nazi salute lives in the same area.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/captain-tom-moore-tweet-man-charged-b1799310.html

https://www.irishpost.com/news/the-...offensive-tweet-about-late-captain-tom-203380
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I don’t abide by rivalry between British nations at all, it’s sad and pathetic, and at this level, outright vile... any opportunity for some pricks.
 
twotone said:
That guy is apparently a 'comedian', big laugh eh making fun of an old guy who did more in his last six months of life than that prick will ever achieve in his entire miserable life.
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Good comedians don’t have to resort to being hateful pricks and singling people out... this guy needs to find a new career.
 
Whilst I have great admiration and respect for the late Captain Sir Tom, and I'm very pleased that his fame gave him such a lovely last year and hope he thoroughly enjoyed himself....it should at least be acknowledged that as a country we were played by the gov and MSM who cynically used this wonderful old mans story to keep bad news for the gov off the front pages for weeks....
It's the elephant in the room in this whole story that no one seems to want to mention!
 
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