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hi,jim.why verita-and dilegenta ?

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unless ive got it wrong its my family motto(truth and dilegence)
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my last name is a french one,and as i do family searches for friends, i decided to send for a plaque a while back with the family motto, and it had truth and diligence, so i went to the local library, and with help from a librairian we narrowed it down to verits et dilegencia, but someone on h2g2 said it was dilegenta,if im still wrong i dont mind you putting me right.
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jim

makes me think of a knight sitting at a round table and of a flag with a red cross and that credo sewn up on it.how old's your family,jim ?

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thats something i would like to know myself, ive got back as far as 1700,s with the family tree
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but still in the english side.
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i got info from a distant relation, that i havent been able to confirm, that my family name, was hueganouts(sorry about spelling)from the belguece regeion, who when i dont know,moved to franch, till the french revolotion,and they came to england, and seperated into the leaders and workers, the leaders settled in london,artillery road, the workers head for lancishire, such as wigan, st,helens, ashton in makerfield.
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i was born in warrington cheshire,and now i live in yorkshire,england jim

well,I'm not English.not in this life.however,I must have been one in a previous life,since God had me studied English literature and civilization.I was born in Pitesti,a city 60 miles north-west from Bucharest,Romania,and now I live in a small town near Cluj,in the midddle of Transylvania.you must have seen at least one film about Dracula.if not, you haven't missed a big deal,they've all disregarded the historical truth.as for my family tree,I've never been interested in doing some serious search stuff.probably,because I know much of the information is already lost.but I've been thinking of my ancestors quite a lot lately,of their lifestyle and beliefs.
-20 years ago you'd have been an Englishman and I'd have been a Romanian,not to mention that I'd have risked my freedom for talking to you.
-today,we're both Europeans,and the world seems so much smaller.but is it better than in the knights'time,I wonder ?

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yep ive seen a few misguided films based on the stoker books.
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the nearest real dracula, as to be vlad the impalier.
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ive never been outside england myself, im 59 this year, and my passport ran out in january, i got to use it
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the idea was to travel at least to france to see if i could find anything on the family name.
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am i right in thinking you teach english lit,or am i reading you wrong.
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have you been to england in the past, its not much to shout home about, apart from london, the broads, and a few seaside towns like blackpool, new brighten, its nothing to offer.
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jim

opss(should be)i NEVER,got to use it,re pasport.jim

-congratulations,jim! you're quite good at history!you see,I love reading history and socio-political books.vlad the impaler did stop the Muslims invade Europe 500 years ago.we fought them and beat them so many times.we've known them for too long.they haven't changed.
-I'll be 49 on september,16th.married.2 daughters.17 and 4.I've been abroad only once.visited France in 1991,with a group of my students.saw Alsace,Strasbourg,the European Council building,performed a 2 hours' show of French poetry there.
-I teach English at a middle school.I could have chosen an upper level after the graduation ,but I knew the Romanian educational system too well,and I wouldn't deal with Romanian teens.I'm still quite worried about it.Nothing has changed for the past 50 years.
-no,jim,you're wrong.there are so many things to see:museums,the Bronte sisters'house.Thomas hardy's house,Shakespeare's theatre and house,and so many others'.They must be opened to the public now.these people 's books saved my soul from dying out throughtout 50 years of barbaric communism.and millions of others',all over Eastern Europe.

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history wa my best subject at school lol.
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now i spend time doing family searches at the local library for friends near where i live, two year ago i did one for a neibour.
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what started as a search ended in a guide that even now im still trying to finish, two men(aircrew)are still a mystry.
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this is the guide.
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A2228113
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between poland and berlin, the story of the 21 days march became inpossible to fathom out if they billing and craig made the walk or not,jim

hi,jim.very good work.I'm really impresseed. if I got it right,you tracked billing and craig down in a prisonners camp in Poland.but how did they get there in the first place ?and what happened to the 1500 pows that were moved,did they end the march ?were they still alive when the war ended ?did you find any list with those people ?
-something may have happened on the way.there might be some report on that in the German archives.during the nazi trials at Nurenberg,the Allies realized that the Germans had written down reports on almost everything they had beed doing during the war.
-why weren't billing and craig transferred to a British prisonners camp,I wonder?

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i wrote the guide over two years ago, and about 6 weeks ago a simon58 contacted me to say the ew277 was the plane is grt uncle was shot down and killed in(frank cooney)
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so i decided to see if after a few years there was any new info about on here(ww2 peoples war)and came on this
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acsess to story is down the page.
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what was in luft 7, where moved in jan 1945 over 21 days to luft 111a, but it looks like a lot didnt get there.and ive no way of even finding out how long billing and craig where in the luft 7 from june 1944.
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also came on this which shows someone as also been looking for a section from camp 7
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http://www.obliczahistorii.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?p=38558
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the ii could be 11
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may never find what happened to them after june 1944 jim

hi,jim.I imagine the amount of work you've done trying to trace those 2 poor people down in that slaughter house 50 years ago.I've read a lot about WW2.I've been trying to understand how such horrible things as two world wars could occur in a XXth Europe.But beyond all the historical,socio-polititical or economical reasons one can read about in any history book,there is something they skip:people's personal dramas,what they have seen ,lived ,felt,the loss of their dear ones.My best friend's father was a prisoner at Auschwitz.My father-in-law was taken prisoner by the Russians and taken to Siberia.All his family was deported and killed.He escaped and walked back to Romania.My great-grand-father was killed in action by the Germans at Marasesti.100 million deads and 50 years of cold war.so much human resources wasted foolishly,and for what?why?I'm not satisfied with what the history books say.XXth century world lived in a butchery.The world might never recover.Human life has become worthless.I think we still live the consequences of what happened then.

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as long as we live, we will never understand war,the first one was so futile,over 20 million in under three days in 1916.
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history shows that in the three days at the somme, there was more artillery shells fired off that in on year in the 2 wwar.and for what.
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evry year we remember them,but what are we remebering, the men who thought to go to war in the first one, was not for duty, but because there pals would be with them in most cases.
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kitcheners poster,(your country needs you).and men would be clambering to join up.
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the second was a country,poland, attacked by hitler,how many in 1939 even knew where poland was,
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when the prime minister said, we are at war, you acsepted it, and off to war again.
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the bands the drums, seeing off at the railwaystation, all same as the first war. then when the dead and dieing came back, no drums, people waiting.
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some historians hinted that wars are a way to cull the world when resources got scarce.
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so if that the case we are about to be in the third and maybe final war, because the next no one will survive.(armegedon)jim

hi,jim.i think every living creature on this planet has the fundamental right to life.i mean every tiny,little form of life,whatever their shpe,colour,or the gas they might breathe.
-you know,jim,I have a very good friend who teaches biology and has also graduated from the university of politology in Bucharest.This guy has a brilliant mind.And we spend days talking about the present and future of this world our kids are to inherit from us.living in it has been getting more and more difficult.You see,it seems that the problem of national security will become less and less 'national',and more and more personal.you're right,the 3rd one has just started.this time,it'll be harder than with hitler and stalin.they were criminals,all right but they belonged to our world.the world knew what to expect from them.but the muslims are bred differently,they have a strange system of values.I think we don't really know them enough,and that's a very serious mistake.but at least one thing is sure : they have condemned their peoples to our mistrust.
-they have the oil reserves,which are finite.we have the power of technology,which is infinite.what will they do,when oil is over ?what will we do when they start coming,beginning for help,women and kids and old people,trust them,repeat the Trojans' mistake ?

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have you seen the ww2peoples war stories,there are a lot of personal and historical stories
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its was about two years ago,that the libraries and bbc with h2g2 decided to do a war guide site.
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ive only read a few, only scratched the surface.
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there is also a picture section, thats not part of the normal internet, they are added by the ones writing the guides.
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the project was disbanded a year after the stories where written, but the guides are now part of bbc ww2 archives.
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if you like to read about the things ie coping in an airraid shelter,the way polits had to get about on a bike on the airfield
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stories of peoples stay in the stalags and so on the ww2peoples war is a site to check out.
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jim

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar

if the links dont work,its because its from memory, i arnt using a pc,im on an email with a (what we call)a magic link.any pc stuff is when i go to a local library to get about an hour or two a day,if possiblejim