Today is the fifth anniversary of Paddy Ashdown's death. I still mourn him as a man and a leader.
By coincidence, at 20.50 this evening Talking Pictures TV (Freeview Channel 82) is showing a short Look at Life film from 1964 about British troops in Sarawak. At one point we see a young Marines officer... Lieutenant Ashdown.
Talking Pictures has a free online catch-up service - TPTV Encore - where most of its programmes appear. In case this one doesn't, I've added an excerpt from the film above.
Later. The film will be on TPTV Encore until 29 December - search for 'Trouble-shooters'. You have to register with the site, but it it's free to use.
Not only that, but 22nd December is also the anniversary of David Penhaligon's death in a car crash in 1986. Without a doubt, he was one of the most remarkable men I have ever met in my life. He would have achieved so much if he had lived.....
ReplyDeleteThat was a very sad day - David was one of my first Liberal heroes.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite Tory on Harborough DC, Bill Crane, said at the time of his death: "If he'd given his wife a squeeze, turned over and gone back to sleep, he'd still be here now."