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Captain Tom Moore (ed. RIP)

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  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Rest in peace. What a genuinely decent man
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    RIP Sir Tom 
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    edited February 2021
    Oh Christ.......a more perfect example of an “Old School English Gentleman” you couldn’t ask for.
    RIP.......Sir Tom......RIP.
  • Will go down in history regarding his efforts during this crap times we are in.
    RIP.
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,254
    edited February 2021
    Fell ill with pneumonia after returning from a Christmas holiday to Barbados, you have to wonder what his family were thinking of taking him out there. Ok it was something he wanted to do but what a price to pay. RIP Sir Tom

    Edit I guess a terrible position to be in, he wanted to go do they deny a 100 year old man a "last wish" ?
  • A very decent man who lifted spirits with his efforts during this awful time. RIP
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,206
    Bless him. Thanks Sir Tom RIP. 
  • Rudders22
    Rudders22 Posts: 3,864
    Have had tears during eyes since this news.  What a legend. What a man. What an Inspiration he was and a true gentleman. His positivity kept me gong last  year and that amazing fundraising fr the NHS.  How cruel that he was nearly at deaths door in recent years but it has been covid that has taken him.  There should be a statue for him in Trafalgar Square. I will never forget the words "tomorrow will be a better day", and my glass is never half empty, it is half full".  He has inspired so many people in such a dreadful time. So glad he got to receive a letter from Dame Vera Lynn and a knighthood from the queen, RIP in fell with Vera Lynn, another treasure 
  • Rob7Lee
    Rob7Lee Posts: 9,594
    RIP, on the 13th anniversary of my mum passing  :(
  • Rob7Lee said:
    RIP, on the 13th anniversary of my mum passing  :(
    Difficult day for you. Best wishes.
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  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    RIP. A decent, ordinary man who did an extraordinary thing. 
  • RIP Sir Tom and thank you for raising our spirits.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,458
    RIP Sir Tom

    A shining light in a sea of s**t
  • Valleysarr
    Valleysarr Posts: 1,097
    Very sad indeed. 
    That trip to Barbados seems a strange one indeed ? 
  • cblock
    cblock Posts: 1,959
    RIP Sir Tom, a true national hero.
  • red10
    red10 Posts: 833
    God bless him, a lovely man. RIP Captain Sir Tom
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,883
    RIP Sir Tom
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,241
    Rest in peace Captain Tom 
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,846
    RIP, what an inspiration, and what a great final year. 
  • killer kish
    killer kish Posts: 2,019
    RIP Captain Tom
    A true hero 
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  • The Barbados trip was a few weeks before christmas so legal as there was no lockdown then.

    Can't deny a 100 year old guy the trip of a lifetime. British Airways and the Barbados tourist board paid for him and his family to go as a thank you for his efforts.
  • The Barbados trip was a few weeks before christmas so legal as there was no lockdown then.

    Can't deny a 100 year old guy the trip of a lifetime. British Airways and the Barbados tourist board paid for him and his family to go as a thank you for his efforts.
    And you could argue he was probably just as likely to catch it from a family member picking it up in the UK with our high rates as he was on the trip.

    Why not go for it, not many chances left.
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    I never thought I'd be in tears of grief over the passing of a 100 year old man I'd never met. Choked. Perhaps it's because his death is a symbol of all the lives lost that are weighing heavily on all of us.

    RIP Captain Tom. An amazing man and an example to everyone.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    very sad times atm they wont last forever i hope. 

    as others have said a beacon of light in these shitty times. 
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Fell ill with pneumonia after returning from a Christmas holiday to Barbados, you have to wonder what his family were thinking of taking him out there. Ok it was something he wanted to do but what a price to pay. RIP Sir Tom

    Edit I guess a terrible position to be in, he wanted to go do they deny a 100 year old man a "last wish" ?
    You know what, I'd like to think that if I was 100 I'd go to Barbados. He wasn't going somewhere with a high virus risk.
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,254
    McBobbin said:
    Fell ill with pneumonia after returning from a Christmas holiday to Barbados, you have to wonder what his family were thinking of taking him out there. Ok it was something he wanted to do but what a price to pay. RIP Sir Tom

    Edit I guess a terrible position to be in, he wanted to go do they deny a 100 year old man a "last wish" ?
    You know what, I'd like to think that if I was 100 I'd go to Barbados. He wasn't going somewhere with a high virus risk.
    Apart from an airport & a sealed aircraft.

    Yes I hope his family are happy that he was able to enjoy a last holiday rather than thinking going was the result of his passing.
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,254
    The Barbados trip was a few weeks before christmas so legal as there was no lockdown then.

    Can't deny a 100 year old guy the trip of a lifetime. British Airways and the Barbados tourist board paid for him and his family to go as a thank you for his efforts.
    As I said a terrible decision for his family to have to make. Whether legal or not it's a very high risk to take for somebody of that age in ill health.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    6pm clap for him tonight 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,559
    McBobbin said:
    Fell ill with pneumonia after returning from a Christmas holiday to Barbados, you have to wonder what his family were thinking of taking him out there. Ok it was something he wanted to do but what a price to pay. RIP Sir Tom

    Edit I guess a terrible position to be in, he wanted to go do they deny a 100 year old man a "last wish" ?
    You know what, I'd like to think that if I was 100 I'd go to Barbados.
    I'd go too. I'm a 100, if I wait till the end of the pandemic I might be dead anyway, I'm not going to live forever, go and have a good holiday, why not?
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    The Barbados trip was a few weeks before christmas so legal as there was no lockdown then.

    Can't deny a 100 year old guy the trip of a lifetime. British Airways and the Barbados tourist board paid for him and his family to go as a thank you for his efforts.
    I see it that way. he was 100 and he had something on his bucket list he had the opportunity to do. If he didn't do it then, he may never have done it.