Captain Sir Tom Moore

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She’s been absolutely lambasted on Twitter but she’s spot on, the truth hurts! One reply basically said the other 100,000 people didn’t matter because they didn’t each raise £30m for the NHS. What have we become?!?
When The Walking Dead was on TV we all used to laugh thinking it was fiction

Yet here we are 2021, the zombies are on Facebook and Twitter believing their phones and siding with the alpha in their friends group viewpoint instead of actually thinking for themselves.
 
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I can’t believe the flags are half mast at no.10 .
This is beyond belief now ..... I simply do not understand. I really don’t 🤦🏻‍♀️

He did a wonderful thing but so have others during the pandemic. I am finding the public hysteria very unsettling. What am I missing that it's disturbing to me rather than feeling moved by it?

I was the same when Diana and Jade Goody died. I found it sad but I can't begin to wrap my head around the public and authorities reaction at all. Something feels "off" about it all.
I find it very unnecessary too.

I think Captain Tom and the Captain Tom story makes for a nice distraction tactic from the government. Other than that I simply cannot understand what is happening 🤦🏻‍♀️
And no I won’t be bloody clapping at my door either.

Next he will be getting a state funeral
 
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This is beyond belief now ..... I simply do not understand. I really don’t 🤦🏻‍♀️



I find it very unnecessary too.
What saddens me is that I can’t see the other elderly man who walked for the charity getting anywhere near the same praise or sadness purely. Dabirul Choudhury was an inspiration too. But he won’t get the same attention.
 
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I am so glad I found this thread.

I've had a bad feeling about the daughter from the start. I've nothing against Tom himself but it does feel as if this whole thing was a well orchestrated situation by his daughter. Many other people, some of whom were also elderly, some disabled children took it upon themselves to raise money and none of them got this kind of accolade or coverage.

It seems like he was embroiled up in a roller coaster of appearances, interviews and publicity campaigns - not really something I think I'd want to be doing at the age of 100.

Whether or not the holiday was how he became ill, putting aside the fact we are in a global pandemic travelling that far at that age would've bought its own health risks. It was highly irresponsible of BA to offer free flights and a bit bloody stupid of him and his family to go.

Mostly what annoys me about this is he raised all that money which was an amazing achievement but the message we've all been given is Stay Home, Save Lives, Protect the NHS. Many of us have done this to protect vulnerable people like him and for them to them jet off when cases are at an all time high and the rest of us were having a Christmas without loved ones just takes the piss. It also takes the piss out of the NHS workers who have worked tirelessly some of whom eventually looked after him in hospital.

He is not a hero. He is a war veteran and I honour what he did during that time the same I do with any other war veteran. He walked around his huge garden of their £2m house, he just got lucky with the media coverage (no doubt fuelled by his daughter) and the need for the public to grasp onto a positive news story during a time where everything was doom and gloom.

I'm sorry he has died but he was 100 and that's a good innings by anyone's standards. I'm especially sorry it was in this way, nobody wants that for their loved ones.

I won't be clapping, changing my profile picture or posting a crappy graphic of him walking through clouds with angel wings. I'll be doing what my family and I have been doing for months - staying at home because I take the restrictions seriously and care about others.
 
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I am so glad I found this thread.

I've had a bad feeling about the daughter from the start. I've nothing against Tom himself but it does feel as if this whole thing was a well orchestrated situation by his daughter. Many other people, some of whom were also elderly, some disabled children took it upon themselves to raise money and none of them got this kind of accolade or coverage.

It seems like he was embroiled up in a roller coaster of appearances, interviews and publicity campaigns - not really something I think I'd want to be doing at the age of 100.

Whether or not the holiday was how he became ill, putting aside the fact we are in a global pandemic travelling that far at that age would've bought its own health risks. It was highly irresponsible of BA to offer free flights and a bit bloody stupid of him and his family to go.

Mostly what annoys me about this is he raised all that money which was an amazing achievement but the message we've all been given is Stay Home, Save Lives, Protect the NHS. Many of us have done this to protect vulnerable people like him and for them to them jet off when cases are at an all time high and the rest of us were having a Christmas without loved ones just takes the piss. It also takes the piss out of the NHS workers who have worked tirelessly some of whom eventually looked after him in hospital.

He is not a hero. He is a war veteran and I honour what he did during that time the same I do with any other war veteran. He walked around his huge garden of their £2m house, he just got lucky with the media coverage (no doubt fuelled by his daughter) and the need for the public to grasp onto a positive news story during a time where everything was doom and gloom.

I'm sorry he has died but he was 100 and that's a good innings by anyone's standards. I'm especially sorry it was in this way, nobody wants that for their loved ones.

I won't be clapping, changing my profile picture or posting a crappy graphic of him walking through clouds with angel wings. I'll be doing what my family and I have been doing for months - staying at home because I take the restrictions seriously and care about others.
I agree with everything you have said here.
 
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So I saw this on fb. Of course he’s been lambasted. But it’s interesting
Quote “I fought for our country and I was not part of the millionaire public school lifestyle that he was. The walk was a publicity stunt from his daughter and sun in law to generate publicity for their charity website accompanied by another son who worked for sky TV. Know your fact please. By that point his dementia was so bad he had to be taught answers to questions . Be honest about situations rather than emotional. His children have a base of 30 plus million that they are now direcors of as a "charity" really...... Just look deeper sometimes
 
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The gin was the final straw for me. How many millions does the NHS spend trying to sew people back together again after a fight resulting from everyone drinking 16 pints on a Saturday night? Likewise with those addicted to alcohol? What was next? Captain Tom's crystal meth?
 

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He really doesn’t look well on that photo compared to those taken earlier last year. He looks so tired and frail. He doesn’t even look well enough for a trip out to a U.K. local beach, let alone one in the Caribbean. What were his family thinking?? Look at his little face. He must have found the whole journey and holiday so gruelling and tiring.

He did a wonderful thing with his 100 laps and he will be remembered very fondly for that. However, I feel he has been pushed too far at his grand old age. All those TV interviews, photo shoots, journeys away from home, dealing with strangers, magazines, newspapers, daily intrusion. That would be too much for people half his age. He should have been resting in his 100th year, not being here there and everywhere. He must’ve have been exhausted and he looks it in that photo on the plane.

I find it incredibly sad that the very thing he was trying to raise awareness of and prevent has led to his own demise, either indirectly or directly. RIP Sir Tom.
exactly and no doubt all that Flipping walking didn’t help him either. probably totally exhausted him from the rest of the year.

this whole thing just makes me feel uncomfortable
 
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The friend that I thought was savvy and astute (good Lord, this is making me question our whole friendship!) has donated to the Man Behaving Badly thing saying 'a brilliant idea to remember a wonderful man - donated!'. God, I hope it isn't a scam. Because right now these people could so easily be scammed. There's a word for this - hysteria.

The gin was the final straw for me. How many millions does the NHS spend trying to sew people back together again after a fight resulting from everyone drinking 16 pints on a Saturday night? Likewise with those addicted to alcohol? What was next? Captain Tom's crystal meth?
God, that made me laugh!! Don't be giving Hannah 'loadsamoney' any ideas please! And look at the branding in the photo! Awful.
 
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I can just imagine the GMB and This Morning dedications to him tomorrow 🤦🏻‍♀️

Imagine if Katie Price decided to take Harvey on holiday over Christmas and he got ill with covid .... she would be ripped to shreds by the press and people on social media.
What annoys me is the use of the world troll being thrown about if anyone dares bring up he and his family was in Barbados.

ridiculous
 
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My mother can’t stop crying 🙄 this is the woman who is massively racist, homophobic, transphobic, does not agree with food banks and slates single parent families, (yes she is a c**t) but a 100 year old passes away and she’s devastated! Beggers bloody belief. She’s done nothing but moan about selfish people leaving the country for holidays but it was ok for Captain Tom! I think I’m going to have to take a break from social media and tv for the next few days as it’s going to be unbearable. The virtue signaling is unbelievable.
 
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Also knighthoods are dished out way too readily these days. It was very impressive that he raised so much money, but a knighthood, really?
 
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