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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;popsycat, post: 341425, member: 1904&quot;]My dad was in the merchant navy, on oil tankers on the N. Atlantic run. His ship went down and he inhaled a lot of oil and burnt his arm. He was picked up by a passing American ship. Not many people realised that when an oil tanker went down, no other ship could stop to pick up survivors. They had to keep steaming to the UK wth their precious cargo of oil. He died in 1948, shortly after I was born with lung disease caused by the oil on his lungs. Many times I was asked what my father did in the war and when I replied &quot;he was in the merchant navy&quot;&nbsp; people would often reply &quot;so he did nothing&quot; including my father in law who spent a cushy war in Canada in the RAF as a technician. Quite recently I was asked the same question and the questioner, when answered, said &quot;that sevice does&#039;nt count&quot; That attitude still makes me angry.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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