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sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts) Wed Aug 16, 2017, 01:25 PM Aug 2017

Don't you wish we had a Winston Churchill or somebody that remembered him?

"I refuse to remain impartial between the fire brigade and the fire"
- Winston Churchill, comment made during the General Strike of 1926 (some sources say was made to the House of Commons)
http://www.courts.fsnet.co.uk/wsc11sept.htm
"I cannot undertake to be impartial as between the Fire Brigade and the fire."

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Don't you wish we had a Winston Churchill or somebody that remembered him? (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Aug 2017 OP

Churchill died a year after I was born VMA131Marine Aug 2017 #1

VMA131Marine

(4,139 posts)

1. Churchill died a year after I was born

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Wed Aug 16, 2017, 01:33 PM

Aug 2017

My parents remember him well.

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