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DT:Monday,January 16th.,2012 @ 1107hrs EST <JPST>
Hello Ian and others in the school @ww topic....
<< Quoting G0TEZ to SCHOOL @WW >>
> From : G0TEZ To : SCHOOL@WW
> Type/Status : B$ Date/Time : 15-Jan 20:17
> Bid : 0E0193G0TEZ Message # : 60379
> Title : RE:G0TEZ...teachers & Prefects
> I'll pick up on one thing,Pete.
> We never had sweaters with a large 'P' it is not the English way.
> We just had small badges in green with the word prefect in gold,
> about 1 1/2 ins long.
That looks rather nice. Yes Ian, ok... we had a arms length "P"
and also it seems one student who was a Prefect even somehow
had some Fraternity house permission for cappa cappa whatever...
so it went well with his "P" and eggo.
Wrong school to have Prefect system in, as they were looked on as
RATS and squealling wasn't appreciated, and all students came
from working homes.
> My proudest possession is a small,badge the size of a 5p piece
> (about a cm) in diameter with three seagulls atop a letter 'G'
> on a blue background.
I take it , this is a something you got afterwards for being a
Prefect? I doubted know if the cannucks here got anything...and
of course if any survived that high school alive? <g>...
In a way it reminds me of a service medal. I got a few bars from
work which stopped when I was a shop steward, going after contract
rights and managment that abused the contract and employees. Of course
the Union gave me nothing like that when I had to give up the elected
job, as ...well a few operations later and no time to defend people.
> I used to wear it as, if noticed, it was a conversation starter.
I wear my working days badge and bars and whatever on my cap.
Company badge and then the service badges and then all the rest.
Also have another cap with a US honour ....Yeah they tend to get
the ice broken for conversation and meeting folks.
I am not really a medal wearer... and either was my father as I agreed
with his reason and all his fellows he had loss. All my trophys I
have left are out there for display when guests comeby....
> I did one meet a man with the same badge with three diamonds around
> the edge. I didn't get chance to talk to him but that badge is only
> worn by, maybe 1,000 people at most world wide.
Reminds me of the British Legion Badges and Diamond Ring.
> I did meet a man with the tiny gold caterpillar on his lapel a couple
> of years ago. I did say something like "Oh, Caterpillar club" he was
> obviously pleased that someone had noticed it but didn't want to discuss
> it so I left the subject alone. The Caterpillar Club is exclusively for
> people who have saved their lives by parachuting out of an aeroplane.
> I would have liked to have known is story but it was not to be.
When I think of that chap...I remember when I had to escape a pontoon
boat that flipped over... had to get two small children out... no
nothing but it has always been with me, and then the countless others
out there who did even more then I..or those who get medals and recognition.
> I have just been watching one of the many WWII films we are deluged with
> and couldn't help noticing that the the germans had the smartest unifirms
> with the biggest badge the Iron Cross about 2 ins across, the British in
> their drab, khaki uniforms and the Americans in their gaudy uniforms.
German services are proud of their armed service. Even the Captain
I knew here, was not repenting a thing, and he was proud of all his
medals and awards and deserved them.
BUT then ....it isn't the uniform...but who is wearing it.
Just like...who is the biggest and best, and all that...yet history
poves...it outta whack...and it is again who is leading and who
is in uniform. You don't have to be BIG to be the BEST.
> Different nations, different tastes.
Right on ....
> 73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7CIP
>
> Message timed: 20:01 on 2012-Jan-15 GMT
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> [End of Message #60379 from G0TEZ]
I was trying to find my old white sweater from the first high school
with the red n grey stripe down the left side....Couldn't find it,
until I remember clothing a dummie in it, for hockey practice, which
bugged the vice-principle of that school and the Hawks...I can see why
we transferred to another school soon after.
Oh well .... I guess he is gone now... a old tired lonely man.
73 Pete VE3WBZ
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