By freebies do you mean STDs?

Remembering the navy in port…. I was next to a friend in Valletta watching the HMS London leaving port on that awful day with tears in his eyes.

U dan kin Laburist qawwi.

Take it easy. I was simply referring to the USS JFK, from the pic of the aircraft carrier you were all so excited about, which was probably on its way to the Middle East. I wasn’t referring to WW2 or Mintoff or barrani or any of that. Now you may think anything you like about Iraq, Israel, etc. but one thing is certain, EVEN American weapons have blood on their hands, innocent blood. We seem to think they defend the good, and are on our side because we too are good. this reasoning makes me sick.

Anyway, that ship’s bigger than Valletta. Says it all, really.

And if Alex wants to get more personal, here are the names of those killed when HMS Eagle went down.

http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/great_britain/pages/aircraft_carriers/hms_eagle_94_roll_of_honour.htm

Maybe you could tell dear Alex the Ingrate that their equivalent on an aircraft carrier died in huge numbers so that his father and mother could eat and eventually beget him. The sinking of the HMS Eagle whilst on Malta Convoy duty is one such case.

The number of British and other Commonwealth servicemen who lost their lives so that we would at least have a chance to be born is staggering, yet we Maltese, no doubt fuelled by horse-shit such as Gensna, believe that we were fighting for the “barrani”. Without a doubt, if Malta were independent during the Second World War it would have been swiftly annexed by Italy, as Albania was. This island was like an unsinkable aircraft carrier in the middle of the Med, with the infrastructure to enable it to wage war successfully.

I sometimes think that people like Alex and the Graffiti revolutionaries need a protracted history lesson. It seems that they have been fed a diet of Marx, Lenin and Mintoff for too long.

This picture is taken on the same day. The Sliema/St.Julian’s area can be clearly seen.

http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=15526

….so it’s not that old, after all.