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Goonerhater
Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
edited November 2008 in Not Sports Related
who said

"the most sacred site for the British race"


and what is that place ?

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  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    somthing to do with Ypres?
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,085
    Damon Hill about Silverstone?
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,077
    churchill
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    yep Churchill talking about the Menin gate

    54,000 British and Comonwealth dead who have no known grave are remembered there.
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    It's a sobering thought. Next time you're at the Valley imagine that the number of dead remembered on the Menin gate is more than twice the crowd. These are just those who have no known grave.
  • Darren
    Darren Posts: 435
    Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,
    Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
    But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
    And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime...
    Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
    As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
    In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
    He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

    —Wilfred Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est", 1917

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