Mark

Thinks about doing stuff, rather than does stuff.

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@keithapearson Took a punt on this. Who said advertising doesn’t work!
I can’t comment on it as my wife nabbed it first but she’s loving it

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@carlyfarly69 @AngelaRayner @AndyBurnhamGM Is this bloke who voted against the grooming gangs enquiry?

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@annhybri Louis Armstrong
David Bowie
Soft Cell
The Smiths

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@AstonVillanUSA Every nation has it’s numpties. 😂

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@Christi18581397 @golsdcopa It’s close ..

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@Big12Pokes What a lovely way of putting it 😊

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@suemarskell You know that you are there for her too. And that’s the important thing

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@McWrightFace @archer_rs It gets passed on via the respective estate agents. Happened to a friend of mine

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While I’m seeing lots of silly World Cup digs between American and European football fans - read this ..

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

General Omar Bradley called it the most dangerous mission of D-Day. He was not wrong.

At 6:30am on June 6, 1944, 225 Army Rangers approached a 100-foot sheer cliff face on the Normandy coast called Pointe du Hoc.

Their mission: climb it.

The cliff was vertical. The Germans were at the top with full visibility of everyone below. As the Rangers fired grappling hooks upward, the Germans cut the ropes. Shot the men hanging on them. Dropped grenades over the edge onto the climbers beneath.

The Rangers kept climbing.

It took roughly 40 minutes. Men fell. Men were shot off the ropes. The ones behind them grabbed the ropes and kept going.

They reached the top.

Then came the gut punch: the massive 155mm artillery guns they had been sent to destroy were gone. The Germans had moved them inland before the invasion. The entire mission had been sent to destroy guns that weren't there.

Most commanders would have regrouped and called it done.

The Rangers fanned out. Two miles inland, they found the guns, hidden in an orchard, already aimed at Utah Beach and loaded to fire. They destroyed every one with thermite grenades.

Then they dug in. Cut off, with almost no ammunition, no reinforcements, and no resupply, 225 men held Pointe du Hoc against relentless German counterattacks for two full days.

When relief finally arrived, only 90 Rangers could still stand and fight.

Their names are carved on a memorial in Normandy. Most Americans today cannot name a single one.

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@suemarskell You are a credit to your Mum. She probs doesn’t recognise all you are doing but you are doing it right. 👍

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@sincere_sparks @Mason69Wild 👏👏

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@AVFC_Connor_ McCormack and Richards should be in there

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@triceworldpipe @BellaBaddie__ Great post 👏

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@SteveLovesAmmo When Bowie died

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@fernantole @Ragassa_Hash I loved Naples. ❤️

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@somefinnspecial Waterloo Sunset was written about Liverpool. Originally titled Liverpool Sunset
Changed to jump onto the London based swinging 60s scene

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@avfcbreaking Even worse, as usual it is awful

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@AnneErickson Courtney Marie Andrews at Mosely Folk. Blew everyone else away

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@BelleMusic5511 The Jam. Every time