Tank:
The past week has been difficult for many of us. Since Rat Putin’s invasion of Ukraine I have been unable to sleep a night. The courage of the Ukrainian resistance in the face of overwhelming odds has shamed me. After much moral searching I have decided that I cannot stand idly by and watch these great people be slaughtered. I have decided to join the International Brigade of the Ukrainian Army. This will mean me leaving TFK.
Yesterday I e-mailed the Ukrainian embassy who told me who to get in touch with. I sent off another e-mail to the International Brigade explaining that I had no Ukrainian or military experience but asking if they still wanted me. They replied within the hour and I was in.
This morning I informed my employer that I was very sorry but I had to hand in my notice. He was very shocked and told me I was mad. I’m taking the car to a dealer today who’s told me that he can give me cash for it. On Saturday I’m flying out to Lublin in Poland. A 5:15pm flight arriving at 9:15pm local time. I’ll spend the night there and then get in touch with an address that the Ukrainian Army have given me. I presume that they’ll give me a gun and send me heading towards the border.
Contrary to what has been said about me here, I am not a follower of O’Duffy but rather a follower of Frank Ryan. These people need my help and I am not an Alright-Jack. I don’t know what’s going to happen to me but ironically, I think that I will sleep easier in Ukraine than I do now. My greatest fear is not for myself, my greatest fear is that my lack of language and military skills makes me a burden on the cause but who knows, we’ll see how it goes.
My girlfriend hasn’t taken it well and I haven’t told my parents. I’ll tell them when I’m there. I think that even if I didn’t go to Ukraine, my girlfriend might end it anyway now. She doesn’t share my passion for justice to the same extent. Who knows what the future holds.
I don’t know what I’ll find on the frontline. I expect I will find awful sights, death, cruelty, courage and horrific mobile data charges. TFK won’t be viable in those circumstances. My only hope is that this horrible war is won before the start of the 2022 NFL season.
Many of you will be delighted to see me gone. Since this will be my last message to you all, I’ll just say that there’s some good and some bad in you all and please work to cultivate that good and move away from the bad. I used the word “work” but there are lots of different kinds of work. It has become apparent to me in the past few days that some of you have given up on yourselves. I haven’t given up on myself, I won’t give up on myself and I won’t give up on humanity.
Although I go to fight for Ukraine, I want you to know that I fight for the soul of Ireland as well.
Éirinn go Bráth
@Bandage and @Rocko delete my account please
The disappointment in Kiev when a lad with a famers tan wearing a Monaghan jersey and dingo jeans turns up instead of a M1 Abrams
carryharry:
Tomas says Yes*
How much did you give him for the car, you profiteering bastard?
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Arthur
March 2, 2022, 7:17pm
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Up went a shout, a horse dashes out
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Locke
March 2, 2022, 7:19pm
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Belter of a post. God speed @Tank
Who’ll run the twitter accounts?
@tank was a great poster; amicable, original, articulate, worldly, naive and disarmingly honest. I’ll be sad to see him carpet bombed.
If he isnt killed
@balbec , is this madness?
balbec
March 2, 2022, 7:33pm
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It’s a noble form of madness. But someone has to make a stand.
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If he’s captured by the Spetsnaz he can always claim that the lads on TFK bullied him into doing it.
Little_Lord_Fauntleroy:
If he isnt killed
I was trying to be optimistic for him
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Massey
March 2, 2022, 8:05pm
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I hope he’s had his Covid booster.
Another fine Monaghan export. Godspeed.
Upon a headland by a whinny hedge
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This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vainglorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
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Best of luck you mad cunt. Hope they make use of your knifemanship and don’t just stick you in a @Tank
If you volunteered to head over and fight with little or no military training, where would expect to be put?
In the front line where you’d most likely be killed and make the front page of every newspaper all over the world.
Miles away from the front line, packing rations and cleaning boots, for fear that you might be killed.
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