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Hero?
Yes
42%
 42% [ 3 ]
No
57%
 57% [ 4 ]
Total Votes : 7
 

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Comrade Pollett
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PostSubject: tommy ricketts   Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:54 am
http://www.cbc.ca/nl/features/theteenage/f_ricketts.html
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:00 am
who would say no?
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:31 am
What's so great about joining the army at 15?
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:34 am
Pannekoek wrote:
What's so great about joining the army at 15?
its not only that, its also how brave he was
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:45 am
How was he brave?
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:49 am
Pannekoek wrote:
How was he brave?
During the advance from Ledgehem the attack was temporarily held up by heavy hostile fire, and the platoon to which he belonged suffered severe casualties from the fire of a battery at point blank range. Private Ricketts at once volunteered to go forward with his Section Commander and a Lewis gun to attempt to outflank the battery. They advanced by short rushes while subject to severe fire from enemy machine guns.

When 300 yards away, their ammunition gave out. The enemy, seeing an opportunity to get their field guns away, began to bring up their gun teams. Private Ricketts at once realized the situation. He doubled back 100 yards, procured some ammunition and dashed back to the Lewis gun, and by very accurate fire drove the enemy and their gun teams into a farm. His platoon then advanced without casualties, and captured four field guns, four machine guns and eight prisoners. A fifth field gun was subsequently intercepted by fire and captured. By his presence of mind in anticipating the enemy intention and his utter disregard for personal safety, Private Ricketts secured the further supplies of ammunition which directly resulted in these important captures and undoubtedly saved many lives.
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:39 am
Pannekoek wrote:
How was he brave?


by being a heros dummy.
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:44 pm
Wow, he secured ammunition, what a brave hero.
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:18 am
Pannekoek wrote:
Wow, he secured ammunition, what a brave hero.
its something you have to be lectured on
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:20 am
So who's going to lecture me? Personally I think people who join the army are retarded.
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:39 am
Pannekoek wrote:
So who's going to lecture me? Personally I think people who join the army are retarded.
then vote no
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:47 am
Not that what he did wasn't necessarily unheroic but I wouldn't exactly call him a hero.
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Tue Apr 15, 2008 2:03 am
Yeah, I agree with "olriac". But I voted yes accidentally before I read the thing.
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:01 am
When you look at world war one, there isn't much "heroism" at all. 4 years of trench warfare, chemical weapons, and carnage all for the reason maintaining a favorable power balance in Europe. We shouldn't glorify that.
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:22 pm
Renegade_Kautsky wrote:
When you look at world war one, there isn't much "heroism" at all. 4 years of trench warfare, chemical weapons, and carnage all for the reason maintaining a favorable power balance in Europe. We shouldn't glorify that.


ww1 was an imperial war, the lats imperial war.
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:28 pm
mattabesta wrote:


ww1 was an imperial war, the lats imperial war.


Not by any means.
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:56 pm
WWI was the last reasonable war, fought against the Nazis. All others since are been imperialist.
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:03 pm
Seriously?
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:05 pm
Sarcasm or not I can't tell really.
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PostSubject: Re: tommy ricketts   Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:04 am
Renegade_Kautsky wrote:
When you look at world war one, there isn't much "heroism" at all. 4 years of trench warfare, chemical weapons, and carnage all for the reason maintaining a favorable power balance in Europe. We shouldn't glorify that.
Even Brave SS solders (if they did not commit war crimes) were heroes
however from what i can tell world war one was also a struggle of Independence for the western Balkans.
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