Watching Star Trek on BBC America. There was a scroll with a special announcement

[jpak]

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About a statement from Buckingham Palace

What gives?

[FalloutShelter]

1. Death of Prince Phillip.

[jpak]

3. Thanks

Should have checked LBN...

[USALiberal]

2. Really??

[jpak]

4. Yes

N/T

[Siwsan]

5. The passing of a loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and WWII veteran.

Forward thinking Conservationist and a man who dedicated himself to many charitable foundations, and unapologetically did his part to bringing the British Monarchy into the 20th/21st Century. A man who put his own career on hold to support the woman he loved. I could go on and on, but, of course, I won't.

[MFM008]

6. a man of life long duty

for sure.

[Hekate]

10. The NY Times obit was compelling. He was a century old, and most of us have no idea what he did...

...in his life either before or after he married Elizabeth Windsor. Some of the comments in earlier threads are absolutely asinine, as a result — life is more nuanced than a Leninist tract about the parasitism of royalty.

[Siwsan]

11. Looking at the story of his life - it's pretty amazing he turned out so well.

His family exiled from Greece when he was an infant, his mother's institutionalization for Schizophrenia, his father's abandonment, 3 of his 4 sisters being Nazi sympathizers (one dying in a plane crash), him pretty much living where ever people allowed, and yet he went on to become a good student, an honorable member of the military, a sponsor of many charitable organizations, and a loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather.

Whether a royal, or not, he was a man who earned my admiration.

[hardluck]

14. I've been watching an interview he did about his WWII service. You might enjoy.

[Siwsan]

16. Thanks!

The CBC has been running some great stuff, today. I haven't seen this, though.

[hardluck]

17. My pleasure

Thanks for the tip, I'll have to check out the CBC coverage. His was a life well lived.

[Siwsan]

18. This is so interesting. Only one of my uncles would ever talk about their experience in WWII.

He was a pilot trainer in England so he wasn't ever in combat, but he did experience some of the horrors of war. One of his other duties was clearing out the planes when they returned. Some had been shot up, and the crew killed. He didn't say much about that except that it was gruesome.

My other uncles who served overseas were both combat veterans. One was at the Battle of the Bulge and the other enlisted in the Navy and was in the war in the Pacific. The two ships he was assigned to were hit - one torpedoed and one hit by a Kamikazi. Both were, for the most part, pretty quiet about their experiences. Both suffered from what we now know was PTSD, and both died very young. The little my one uncle shared with my father about his experience in the Battle of the Bulge was horrific. Same with my uncle in the Navy, about the ships.

[hardluck]

21. Love the family history.

My grandfather was a Marine who landed at Iwo Jima. He would never talk about his experiences in WW2. History lost unfortunately.

My next-door neighbor growing up was in Baker Co., 1 Bn 101st Airborne. Made his two jumps - Normandy and Market Garden. Battlefield commission and three bronze stars. He flew the Screaming Eagle on a flagpole at his house every day of his life. I do miss him.

[IbogaProject]

7. Long running tax cheat

Long running tax cheat, too. They are exempt from income tax.

[Hekate]

8. You can't cheat on taxes if you are exempt from them. What did you do in WWII, by the way?

[qazplm135]

9. I think monarchy is ridiculous

but if it's an exemption in the law, then they aren't a tax cheat.

[Siwsan]

12. Are you affected, in any substantial way, shape or form, by the British Monarchy?

Just curious.

[Ferrets are Cool]

13. I'm not affected by abortion laws, but I still have opinions on them

That is a weird question.

[Siwsan]

15. Ok

[qazplm135]

19. Is your question posed

On the theory that I can't have an opinion on anything I'm not affected by?

Woman's right to choose? I'm a 51 year old man, can't have an opinion on that.

What's going on in Myanmar? No thoughts, don't ask.

Any issue affecting women at all? Not my problem, no thoughts.

LGBTQ rights? Doesn't affect me.

What a weird question.

[Siwsan]

20. ok