4th of July Parade, 2008

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Originally Posted by GlynMeek

Steve...I left the UK for good some 28 years ago to move here. I get back once or twice a year, and despair what has happened to our once GREAT country. The majority of people over here are INCREDIBLY supportive of the military and their sacrifices (and this support is usually completely INDEPENDENT of their political views). England is NOT the country in which I was born, and I truly see NO rosy future for change there either.

The 'glory days' of the sixties are LONG GONE Good luck! Glyn

Hi Glyn,

I can imagine it must be a lot different after 28 years living away, and we do rue the changes and damage done by a succession of very selfish politicians (of every flavour!) The UK is still a great country though; its just a different country. I was born in the 60's so cant really comment, but my folks say the 60's were great if you were reasonably affluent, but pretty dire if you were not!
As for change, yes its going to be slow, as politics are all over the world; but we are between a rock and a hard place; the places with big change are not happy places (Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel, most of the former soviet states to name but a few); and lets face it half the countries blessed with oil reserves have very prominent military presence of some kind there; hardly a dream scenario!

Im happy to live here, but could do with better weather and cheaper gas; roll on global warming?!!

Anyway to get back on topic, a round of applause to all the service personel supporting both countries!!

hip hip-hoorah!!