RE: The movie quote game!

Seeing as everyone seems to have given up, here’s the answers to my quote.

“Blessed be the Lord our God who teaches my fingers to fight and my hands to war.”

It was said by the sniper in Saving Private Ryan and the other occasion I have seen it in a film it was said by General Robert E Lee in Gettysburg. In the second film I asked for the name of this characters horses and they were called Lucy and Traveller.

Regards,

kev35

RE: Air Marshalls on U.K Flights

“but the terrorists are trained killers, who I am sure will know how to overpower the average passenger.”

Yes, and very likely overpower the police officer as well. What good is a police officer with a gun when several terrorists stand up and put blades to the throats of other passengers or cabin crew? What does the police officer do? Shoot anyway? Or put down his weapon? You know the terrorist won’t give up, they want to die. Either way, the terrorist wins, he gets to die for his/her cause.

“I’m thinking that the police will know what to look for.”

Same as they did on September 11th? Or on July 4th? Or with the snipers in Washington? Police and Intelligence are two words that really don’t sit well together.

Regards,

kev35

RE: Plane age

Mine was a Danish Air Force Dakota back in the mid seventies so it was probably 30 to 40 years old then.

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kev35

RE: Schumi joined the Third Reich?

I think Sparky makes a valid point. Most of the veterans I have spoken to refer to the German forces as Jerries, it is the leadership and the SS units which bear the weight of their utter contempt. And who can argue with them?

As for the Japanese, I think that is a different story. My uncle fought against them in Burma and he carried his hatred of the nation and the people with him to the grave.

Seahawk, I think it is most unfortunate that you experienced such abuse, but you should not ‘tar us all with the same brush.’ Support for the Nazis is not dead, either in Germany or in the UK, and we should be vigilant lest it rise again.

Regards,

kev35

RE: Air Marshalls on U.K Flights

If it works, great I shall be mightily pleased. If it doesn’t we are in for a disaster. There are one or two aspects of this that do worry me.

1. You are placing, deliberately, someone on an aircraft with a weapon. Someone has already stated that although low velocity rounds might not penetrate the fuselage they would still penetrate the passengers, hopefully the terrorists/hijackers. But the round can’t tell the difference can it?

2. You have somebody on board with a weapon who is ostensibly there to protect you. But can you guarantee that person will act correctly if called into a situation where they might have to use their weapon?
Can you guarantee their state of mind?

3. If you have terrorists on board in groups like those on September 11th, they don’t even need to take weapons on board. They have access to at least one on the aircraft. If they are fanatics eager to sacrifice themselves, losing one or two to locate and secure the weapon would be considered acceptable.

4. Airport security apparently still leaves something to be desired. If marshalls are put in place is it not likely that security will become lapse again?, after all, there’s a marshall on board.

Regards,

kev35

RE: That song we sing a new years eve

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet
For the sake of auld lang syne.

For auld lang syne my dear
For auld lang syne
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet
For the sake of auld lang syne.

Thank you Mongu, those couple of lines you wrote suddenly brought back the memory of my mom singing this at the top of her voice with tears in her eyes. I hadn’t remembered that for years….

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kev35

RE: That song we sing a new years eve

The words are probably lost in the mists of time, or alcohol fumes. I doubt if many people are sober when they sing it so the words aren’t really an issue. It’s like the drunken pub singer, half the crowd recognise the tune and are so drunk they join in while the half who are sober are rolling on the floor laughing at those who are singing.

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kev35

RE: The movie quote game!

Sparky,

Right again!

“1) Have you ever been liberated?”

I’ve been divorced twice, does that count? Yes that counts.

2) ‘When you refer to Bailey crap I take it you mean that glorious precision made british built bridge which is the envy of the civilised world'”

Michael Caine as Joe or Giles Vandeleur and Elliot Gould as an American Airborne Officer. The scene is the liberation of Eindhoven and the film is ‘A Bridge too far.’

Try this. This quote has appeared in two slightly different versions in two films in the last ten years.

“Blessed be the Lord our God which teaches my fingers to fight and my hands to war.”

For a bonus, in the one scene the gentleman who utters those words moves on to talk to his horses. What are their names?

Regards,

kev35