This morning on Radio 4 (the Home Service to the older generation of matelots here - Ow! Don't hit me PO, I was just joking) they had some Christians on, insisting that God has answered their prayers. God gets praised by the believers: after all it would be unchristian to thank the armed forces. :roll:
It reminds me of regularly attending the Church Service and Parade on Remembrance Day at Cranbrook, Kent, and us all getting an anti-war sermon that resembled an anti-servicemen sermon and being viewed suspiciously by the Padre who was a member of CND. Only when the cold war ended did he see that what we had done was prevent the Russians from absorbing us into its semi-colonial Empire.
One interesting thing, unconnected with this thread, was that CND's Edinburgh office always seemed to know of military exercises before those of us participating were given the dates! If I wanted the date of a NATO exercise 6 months in advance, I would ring them up, pretending to be a supporter, and they would give me the dates, yet the Chain of Command always insisted they had no idea when these exercises were due precisely. I wonder if someone in CND set the dates of NATO exercises? Any thoughts? :?:
