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The Allied Special Forces Association - Dedicated to creating a memorial commemorating members of the Allied Special Forces killed during World War II and in the conflicts since. Includes consitution, accounts, and lists of soldiers.

National Malaya and Borneo Verterans Association - Association is for all vets who served in Malaya, Borneo, Singapore or Brunei dring WWII or Malayan Emergency, living in and around Essex and Suffolk.

Normandy Veterans Association 95th (Finchley) Branch - Local branch members, activities, plans and an archive of newsletters.

Normandy Veterans Association - Hull - For veterans who served in Normandy June 5th - August 20th 1944.

Hereford Ex-Services Association - A Tri-Service Association for ex-service men and women in the Hereford area.

"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Veterans "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what Veterans It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Veterans Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous Veterans "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Veterans To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Veterans The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Veterans Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry Veterans The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Veterans America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Veterans "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Veterans Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous Veterans It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid Veterans "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Veterans "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Veterans The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Veterans "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Veterans There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Veterans Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Veterans Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud Veterans Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Veterans You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill Veterans
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