There has been some hugely touching and emotional relies here especially Manonthefence,It is nice to hear what drives people outside aviation as well as inside,I do have a few Rainbows that i am chasing some are very far from Aviation some are pure Aviation.
Firstly Kev35 Sally B story reminds me of the honour i had through my work to meet a Blenhiem Pilot i used to see him catching a train everyday to go to Redhill to help out on the Airfield he was in his late 80s at the time,it was early morning 5am and one day i got talking to him he told me he goes to Redhill to help with the Tigermoth there but was a Blenhiem pilot he did not go in to too many details but told me of how many friends he had lost in the war i was very touched by what he said and admired him at his age still being so dovoted to Aircraft,sadly i do not know his name and have not seen him for a long time.
I also recently met a Lady who in WW2 was a translater for the RAF and used to have to translate and decode secret papers she was from Poland but came to the Uk age 15 she could speak 8 languages by the end of the war she did not even know english that well when she came here she told me it is all to easy to forget the part such people played in the War it was not all guns and bombs after all.
My Rainbows are
1) I want to honour my late Grandads part in the war he was in the Navy and served along side HMS Belfast on a ship either called the urchin or the Sea urchin,he never told much of his life in the Navy but one story i never forget was when he was on leave he went to visit my Nan who lived near Croydon Airport he was walking down the road to see her when he heard a strange noise the next thing he know was some one pulled him in to a shelter it turned out it was a V1 he had never seen or heard one before he was quiet proud of the fact he was carrying eggs at the time and did not break one!.
2) Is about me i want to get a photo of my published i am not good enough yet.
3)is i write poems or song lyrics i want to see or hear something i wrote published.
There my Rainbows at the moment i hope my messeage does not bore people i did not intend to write so much.
From Martin
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