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The Heroes….
Remember them when you went to start work in 70’s to maybe late eighties?
You started at a factory, pit, engineering plant or wherever and there was always a couple of quiet oldish guys pottering about.
Usually called Alf or Eddie and seemed to always have a Woodbine behind their ear and a big striped mug of tea in their fist, generally found behind the stores talking about pigeons or growing leeks.
And ‘Oh So Boring’... like hadn’t they ever done anything exciting in their dull little lives?
Then one Sunday Morning you’d be hanging round in town waiting for pub to open for a mender and you’d hear brass band music and realise it was Remembrance Day.
As you watched all these people marched past you suddenly recognised the same people from work with a chestful of medals and, when back in on the Monday, you’d ask around after them and find out one was ex commando, another had done a frenzied attack against a machine gun post, another had carried a wounded man under heavy fire and yet another had killed two German sentries in a night time raid with a dagger!
Most of ‘em probably dead by now or eking out a state pension , does anyone else remember a time that they worked with Heroes?
Remember them when you went to start work in 70’s to maybe late eighties?
You started at a factory, pit, engineering plant or wherever and there was always a couple of quiet oldish guys pottering about.
Usually called Alf or Eddie and seemed to always have a Woodbine behind their ear and a big striped mug of tea in their fist, generally found behind the stores talking about pigeons or growing leeks.
And ‘Oh So Boring’... like hadn’t they ever done anything exciting in their dull little lives?
Then one Sunday Morning you’d be hanging round in town waiting for pub to open for a mender and you’d hear brass band music and realise it was Remembrance Day.
As you watched all these people marched past you suddenly recognised the same people from work with a chestful of medals and, when back in on the Monday, you’d ask around after them and find out one was ex commando, another had done a frenzied attack against a machine gun post, another had carried a wounded man under heavy fire and yet another had killed two German sentries in a night time raid with a dagger!
Most of ‘em probably dead by now or eking out a state pension , does anyone else remember a time that they worked with Heroes?
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