EddyPickle

[KeyserSosse @KeyserSosse]

6th August, 2007

Private Craig Barber, aged 20 from Blaengarw, Ogmore Vale, and of 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, was killed by small arms fire, whilst on operations in the Al Fursi District of Basra City, Iraq

Lest we Forget this brave young Welsh Warrior 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

[Belle @bellespofforth]

The headlines have faded, but I have not forgotten.

So I painted her.

In honour of Ann Widdecombe.

“The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance”

Psalm 112:6

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Please share far & wide! Let’s find Nico!

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

My daughter Belle is known on X for her paintings of Jesus.

Today she has finished her oil painting of Anne Widdecombe.

I thought I’d share how remarkable and beautiful it is ❤️

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

4 year old Tania Szabó wears the George Cross awarded posthumously to her mother Violette Szabó, who was a WW2 heroine and SOE agent.

Violette was executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp aged 23 years old.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Emilienne Moreau-Evrard was a French heroine of both World Wars.

In WWII, she bravely served in the Brutus Resistance network, risking everything.

She is one of only six women to receive the prestigious Ordre de la Libération.

[EddyPickle @EddyPickle]

@RosieL98723 @TheNorfolkLion Lovely photo - also love your coat xx

[EddyPickle @EddyPickle]

@OkayBiology It was fabulous when it came out. We got the dvds as soon as we could. Not sure they’d repeat it in the original form though. Gene Hunt - brilliant xx

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Norman Jackson climbed out of a Lancaster bomber onto the wing, in the freezing slipstream, four miles above Germany, to put out an engine fire with a hand extinguisher while the aircraft flew on through the night. It is one of the most physically unbelievable acts of courage in the history of the air war, and the fact that he survived it at all is a miracle.

Jackson was a flight engineer, and by April 1944 he had already finished his tour of 30 missions. He did not have to fly again. But his crew still had sorties to complete, and he would not let them go without him, so he volunteered for one more, a raid on Schweinfurt. On the way home a German night fighter tore into them, ripped open the wing, and set the fuel tank ablaze. A wing fire on a bomber full of fuel meant the aircraft would explode within minutes. Everyone aboard knew it.

Jackson, already wounded by shell splinters, did the only thing that might save them. He got a fire extinguisher, strapped on his parachute, and had his crewmates feed the rip cord out slowly so his canopy would billow behind him as an anchor. Then he pushed himself out through the hatch into a 200 mile an hour wind and hauled himself out onto the wing of the flying bomber, in the dark, at 20,000 feet, and started fighting the fire by hand.

He nearly did it. He got the extinguisher onto the flames and had the fire coming under control. Then the night fighter swung back for another pass and raked the aircraft again. Jackson was hit in the legs, the fire flared back up and burned his hands and face, and he was swept off the wing into the night. His parachute, already burned by the fire, streamed out only partly open and smouldering.

And he lived. He fell four miles with a half-burned parachute and hit the ground with a broken ankle, a shattered leg, and terrible burns, but alive. The Germans found him and he spent ten months in hospital before a POW camp, from which he later escaped. His own crew, who bailed out and assumed he was dead, survived to tell what he had done, and that is the only reason the story is known.

They gave Norman Jackson the Victoria Cross. He climbed onto the wing of a burning aircraft in flight to save his friends, and then fell out of the sky on fire, and got up and walked away from it.

[Stansaid Airport @StansaidAirport]

Do you have a child travelling alone? Don't worry, our Concierge service will look after them like it’s one of their own.

[Heather McKee @heatherthefair]

Isn't this just wonderful! 😊

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

It's been 10 years since Father Jacques Hamel, an 86-year-old French Catholic priest, was murdered by two Islamic State terrorists while celebrating Holy Mass at Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy, France.

To commemorate the anniversary, Father Hamel's blood-stained alb, the liturgical vestment he was wearing when he was killed, is being displayed inside the very church where the attack took place.

On July 26, 2016, the two ISIS-linked attackers stormed the church during Mass, forced Father Hamel to kneel, slit his throat, seriously wounded a worshipper, and took hostages before being shot dead by police outside the church.

[EddyPickle @EddyPickle]

@MarkHeath45 Best wishes xx

[EddyPickle @EddyPickle]

@RandyRRQuaid Love the pic, cool shades xx

[KeyserSosse @KeyserSosse]

1st August, 2010

Lance Sergeant Dale Alanzo McCallum, aged 31 from Hanover, Jamaica, and of 1st Battalion Scots Guards, was killed by enemy small arms fire in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan

Lest we Forget this brave Jamaican man who gave his all 🇯🇲🇬🇧

[EddyPickle @EddyPickle]

@MissLauraMarcus Oh that’s brilliant! Love it xx

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

A 22 year old German-Jewish refugee soldier walked into Nuremberg Prison to interpret for the psychiatrists studying Hitler’s top Nazis.

None of them knew he was Jewish.

What happened next was extraordinary:
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[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The level of gaslighting we've had in the last 24 hours is absolutely off the charts. You can fuck off with this shit:

- "Cueta is in Africa so it's not really Spain"

Pearl Harbor is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean so it's not really the US then?

- "A lot of them have gone home"

If 60,000 people break into your home and then leave that is better than them all squatting in your home permanently, but they still broke into your house.

- "They're refugees fleeing the climate crisis" (James O'Brien came up with this gem)

No, they're not. If I was fleeing the climate crisis, I'd bring my wife and kids, not 59,999 other men. They want a better life. They can apply for a visa and if they meet our rules, we'll decide which ones we want to accept and which we do not. Otherwise they're queue-barging and can fuck off.

- They can't get from to Cueta to mainland Europe because there's a stretch of water and a border there.

Uhh, we're letting boatloads of illegal immigrants into Britain on the daily. There is absolute no evidence European countries have any desire to enforce their borders.

- It's not a migrant invasion, it's just Morocco doing it on purpose

Oh, it's an *organised* invasion. What a relief.

Fuck my life.

[Sukey Deutschkron 💚🤍💜 @e1duchess]

I saw a post the other day which had the Top 20 from 50 years ago and I was struck by the variety of genres. Disco, punk rock, pop, soul, it was all there.
In fact I was curious so I googled and here it is.

I used to record the Top 40 on Sunday evenings onto a tape recorder, sometimes from a radio, not even a HiFi. I got that mid teens. 😀

[EddyPickle @EddyPickle]

@e1duchess @NoShirleyNo The best wedding do record list ever. Take me back please xx