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Offline Redback

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Vale "Nancy Wake"
« on: August 08, 2011, 09:32:25 AM »
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Re: Vale "Nancy Wake"
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2011, 10:34:04 AM »
They dont make em like that anymore :(


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Re: Vale "Nancy Wake"
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2011, 03:09:29 PM »
A truly courageous person, a product of her time perhaps, but outstanding non the less.
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Re: Vale "Nancy Wake"
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2011, 09:25:11 PM »
I met her in 1994 at a Mess(military) function. She may have been in her eighties but jeez she could drink, and she took no prisioners in her speech. An absolutely amazing person, unmatched, male or female, in the measure of courage.

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