A bit off topic, but about men like us.
Yesterday in West Cornwall we remembered men who left the comfort of their friends & village in 1981 to head out to sea to rescue the crew of a coastal freighter in trouble.
All these years later we still shed tears:
BBC4 Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeIX0VnUMKo
RNLI: https://rnli.org/about-us/our-history/timeline/1981-penlee-lifeboat-disaster
whisperingsmith:
A bit off topic, but about men like us.Yesterday in West Cornwall we remembered men who left the comfort of their friends & village in 1981 to head out to sea to rescue the crew of a coastal freighter in trouble.
All these years later we still shed tears:
BBC4 Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeIX0VnUMKo
RNLI: https://rnli.org/about-us/our-history/timeline/1981-penlee-lifeboat-disaster
RNLI volunteers are incredible people. I salute them all. But I cannot understand why we, as a nation, rely on a charity staffed by volunteers and funded by donations to perform this vital service.