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chim chim cha boo 1:45 Wed Jul 4
My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Just a few photos to show you WHOers of some of the veterans, widows and serving Airmen and women of the Royal Air Force at the opening of the Bomber Command Memorial.

A lovely sunny day was arranged by someone up there and stupidly I imagined it being a mostly happy occasion. After all, a permanent monument to the 55,573 brave souls who gave their lives and the countless others horribly injured after all these years is a good thing, isn't it?

To tell you the truth I felt a bit grubby taking these, even though I was asked to. You can see the pain etched permanently on these old boys and girls faces like it happened yesterday.

I hope you find them as moving as I did.

Lest we forget.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/55931332@N02/sets/72157630417686362/

Westham67 1:23 Thu Jul 5
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Thanks chim

Jesus they were brave men

OverLandandSea 1:07 Thu Jul 5
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Hahaha.

That's not a rash.

That's pseudonym.

Northern Sold 1:02 Thu Jul 5
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

OlaS... don't be daft.... these and Disney/Florida threads I am all over like a rash on your bellend

OverLandandSea 1:00 Thu Jul 5
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Unusual to see you on a war related fred Soldier?

Northern Sold 12:59 Thu Jul 5
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Chim... Yeah read that in the Gibsons/Dambusters book.... I think it's an absolute outrage they are changing the Labs name... whatever next?? Go up and desecrate his gravestone at RAF Scampton???

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/RAF_Scampton_022.jpg

If they change the name of the dog I shall not be viewing

chim chim cha boo 12:49 Thu Jul 5
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Thanks again chaps.

NS, apparently Guy Gibson's Labrador's name was also the secret codeword to signify that the dam had been breached. I'd love to hear a recording of that.

(replace the word 'digger') "HQ are you receiving? Digger, Digger, Digger. I repeat, Digger, Digger Digger".

Northern Sold 12:38 Thu Jul 5
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Great job there Chim.... very poignant... this upset me though....

"Steven Fry is writing the screenplay for the new Dambusters film, directed by Lord of the rings director Peter Jackson. The dog will be renamed 'Digger', if you were wondering". :-(

SHORTYHAMMER 11:34 Wed Jul 4
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Great pics, captures the emotion and the spirit of out brave heroes.
God Bless them all, and those that never made it...

chim chim cha boo 11:29 Wed Jul 4
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Hammerhermit 11:09 Wed Jul 4

Yes mate, I wish that too.

Kenkwondo 11:17 Wed Jul 4
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Well done, chim. Makes me sick to think how we`ve treated those brave men and their families.

Hammerhermit 11:09 Wed Jul 4
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Thank you Chim, wish my dad had lived to be there.

chim chim cha boo 10:46 Wed Jul 4
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Joke Whole 4:15 Wed Jul 4

That old boy with his tongue out was brilliant. He looked all sullen and sunken in his wheelchair and I went to take a discrete shot (I thought) and he poked his tongue out, nudged his mate and pointed at me laughing.

It said a lot about how old boys have different ways of dealing with what they must have seen.

Dougie told me that even when he saw bombers explode right in front of him he thought 'they probably bailed out and were taken prisoner. He knew in the back of his mind that even if they DID survive the explosion and 'chuted down they would probably be hacked to death by the 'civilians' with shovels and pitchforks.


Swiss, tell me about Dresden then. What do you know?

Swiss. 4:50 Wed Jul 4
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Exactly my thoughts...

Joke Whole 4:15 Wed Jul 4
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Good stuff that, chim - respectfully unintrusive (is that a word?) yet captures the mood, I feel.

The old chap in the second shot. Was that a reaction to him clocking you at work? He's got a look of "devilment" about him; not anger, but just what seemed to be a feeling that "we were just doing our jobs, thanks for the lumps of rock but is the bar open yet?"

ludo21 4:11 Wed Jul 4
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

That's right Swiss.... you fucker.


Reap what you sow!

Swiss. 3:59 Wed Jul 4
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

murderers of Dresden.

wasabi snooter 3:02 Wed Jul 4
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Laurence Binyon: "Ode of Remembrance", and ode taken from his poem "For the Fallen" (The Times, September 1914).



really nice work chim, captured the moment

Gavros 2:56 Wed Jul 4
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

What does Nicky Clarke have to do with it?

ludo21 2:54 Wed Jul 4
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Great photos.... as you say, good job they had good weather, imagine if it had been like almost every other day we have had lately.

Hope they keep the Lanc flying for a long, long time..... I've been lucky enough to see it flying several times now, magnificent sight.

chim chim cha boo 2:18 Wed Jul 4
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IsaacHock 2:13 Wed Jul 4

I had about a millisecond to take that Lanc shot. It came over low and very fast. I was amazed I got anything other than blue sky!

chim chim cha boo 2:15 Wed Jul 4
Re: My opening of the Bomber Command Memorial photos. Green Park, London 26/06/2012.

Thanks mate.

Does the picture of the old lady (not Camilla Parker Bowles) in the lovely hat and dark glasses come across properly? I felt really bad about taking it, that, and the deaf and blind veteran.

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