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How do you i have one question for you because I love history so much I thought a book by TE Lawrence why did he wrote about the seven pillars of wisdom.

A hero unquestionably. Is there anyone alive today like Lawrence?

Such acourageous and fascinating life that of Laurence Of Arabia thank you for making it visible with an excellent voice to recount it

I agree.

To be fair, politicians are thieves.

or as politicians in the state I grew up in, we're a majority religion wastes no time preaching their morals and values, "it's perfectly legal", or "but it's not against the law"

I’d call it a draw, frankly. You can believe you me there is no honor amongst thieves.

There’s no honor among thieves.

Beautiful, sir.

Based.

One of my favorite quotations.

love it

I have it posted in my shop, up on the wall, great quotation.@@geraldmiller5260

This is so sweet! Thank you for sharing. 😊

Your father did not fuss over the pic?

That's kinda weird

Great read, Gertrude Bell as well.

Glad to see you're still going strong sir.🙏🏻

That's our next holiday, Tanks and Lawrence.

That's a memory with your dad that will never be forgotten. Nice story cheers.

Don't forget to visit the Memorial in the Cemetery garden opposite the Church in Moreton where I used to live . Clouds Hill Cottage is not far away and can be visited too . Turning off the Bere Regis to Weymouth road and heading to Bovvy from there takes you along the old roads where Lawrence loved to ride his Brough ( not Borough as stated) Superior and indeed the stone that marks the spot near the accident . That whole area is criss crossed with footpaths that cross the shallows of the River From to East Burton and Moreton from Bovington Camp , with some great places to picnic at the bottom of very unlikely looking lanes . Like Lawrence I didn't want to leave the area , but it was my wife's insistence ,which is probably why we were soon separated five years later .

I have been fascinated by Lawrence since i was a kid and for many years i have wanted to visit Clouds hill and at the same time the Bovington museum. But none of my friends share my interest so i most likely need to go alone.

My goodness "lucky you "..

I am a huge David Lean fan! And IMHO Lawrence Of Arabia is 1 of the VERY best movies ever made, if not THE best. But I had quit watching this show before the 3 minute mark, because the voice is so annoying, but you have convinced me to give it another go. I'll turn the volume down as much as possible and I'll try to remember your words. Hopefully that will get me through it. Thank you.

My uncle Ray who fought two savage tours of combat in Vietnam once told me," The real victims of war are those who survive, for the dead its over."

I very much agree...know a days we can have medication for depression that make life less painful to endure. I have red Seven Pilars of Wisdom and everything I can cath about Lawrence, I admire him so... I think he died young, I hope it was an acciden and not suicide. Anyway, as a dear person to me I allways pray for him, he sufferd a lot.I know nowadays this may sound simple minded, but I,m like that...

try medical marijuana Alcohol free it has saved my life

beautiful !@@krakerkrunch

Take up painting my friend ! It will drive the dark thoughts from yor mind.

So are you an English blue blood or what bro?

What a stupid reply to an intelligent comment.@@dwigg7700

Now that's cool.

@@PeopleProfiles way cool 😎

Wowww

Augustus John Painted his portrait.

betrayer

Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935) was a great historian, archaeologist and British officer... but the movie portrayal was a bit inflated and even romaticised by Orientalists and British historians. After all, his dreams for Arabia were betrayed by the Sykes-Picot treaty !

Well stated

And he was a broken man until his tragic death. Terribly sad! He was duped, as were the arabs, but he felt responsible. Many people are still paying for that disaster today. The duplicity of the English and French was unforgivable, and it has caused so many deaths.

yes, yes, yes... I COMPLETELY AGREE!

Vvvvv.

After reading many books and going to Jordan for a vacation to see what it is like there , I think Lawrence was a hero and tried to do what he could for Arab independence. We I think , have been influenced by words and perhaps the movie that has been made of him. Jordan is a great country with lots of friendly people and I recommend it to anyone thinking of visiting this part of the globe.

@@JohnDoe-tw8es Absolutely TRUE !, agree with you 💯. Lawrence was a hero !!

@@raulbaquero5081 Think Lawrence was very intelligent and put to much thought into what happened during the war and his role in it.

​@@raulbaquero5081why was he a hero?

I have read many books about Lawrence. Obviously you have too.

@@JohnDoe-tw8esAn Interesting, in fact, most fascinating personality, therefore, all new information about him is always welcome, whether in books, articles, documentaries, biographies,or...UKposts videos!😊

@@alexanderkarayannis6425 For sure, , went to Jordan around 8 years ago for a month.Have spent a bit of time before in the near east and always liked it. Wadi Rum is just so beautiful. I can understand what he loved about that area.

@@JohnDoe-tw8es" What is it Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally,to the desert?..." "It's... clean!..."... Well,I suppose you also went to Petra, through that gorge on horseback too, emulating Indiana Jones, and, why not?...Great place to visit, Jordan...makes you wish the world hadn't shut down with this corona virus business, so we can see a bit more of it, while we still can!...

@@alexanderkarayannis6425 Saw Petra, like the castles too. Something about the desert and waste land that is inspiring. Went to Azrak castle which is in the middle of nowhere. Saw the room he talks about and it still has the blackened ceiling from the fires. Just magic for me. Would like to go back and see more as well as other places out in that part of the world. If you have not been you should....

Love your enthusiasm✨🇺🇸😊

In the heat of the glistening sun!

In the heart, of ancient tradition.

this man's journey has only begun

Welcome aboard!

Wow, thanks a lovely thing for your family history to tell people & very interesting to here, you must be so proud of that

I can’t believe you forgot Dr Zhivago

It is perfect casting, unlike when he played Henry II. TWICE. Oh dear. But for Lawerence, spot on!

@@lilymarinovic1644 🤔 The Plantagenets had a very long history of all of them being extremely handsome. Peter fits that bill. Oh my how I sighed over him. But, to me. He is way to foppish to be the uber masculine Henry II.

@@lilymarinovic1644 Perhaps he wasn’t as handsome as some of them, but those descriptions are when he was a bit older. But he was super macho. And Peter isn’t any of those.

@@lilymarinovic1644 Mine too😉. Just a discussion, eh? They made a remake of Lion in Winter, and it has Patrick Stewart🤔. Whom I also love lol. Jury’s still out I haven’t seen it yet, but I ordered it. FYI if you’d be interested in it.

Apart from O’Toole being 9” taller than Lawrence. Lawrence was a small man at 5’5” & O’Toole was 6’2”.

Great Photos as well.

So true.

I think he was a much more complicated and interesting personality, even more so than portrayed in the many films and documentaries about him...A romantic archeologist,intellectual, traveler,soldier,politician,who has had enough of it all and just wanted to be left alone in the end...Made deals and promises way above his head and pay grade,cancelled by the Sykes-Picot agreement with the stroke of a pen...Killed,misled,destroyed people and ignored all accepted norms of his time,in behavior, institutions, and himself most of all,at a heavy cost to his own physical and mental well being and health,he was also a homosexual tortured soul with many an affair with conservative Arab natives,whom he wrote passionate poems to...Well, he lived a lot of life in his short time on this earth,and is certainly one that expressed more and better than any other,the 'neurotic ills of an entire generation' in the words of writer and biographer Christopher Isherwood...Quite a character,really...

​@@alexanderkarayannis6425He was indeed a fascinating and complex man. But if I remember correctly, nobody who knew him well thought Lawrence was a homosexual: not his brother, not the men he lived with for years in the RAF, not the gay men he was friends with. Even the gay man who was in love with him during their university years insisted that Lawrence was asexual. He also suffered from haphephobia and was disgusted by sex. His having homosexual affairs seems to be an assertion that has been repeated many times without evidence, perhaps originating from Richard Aldington's scathing (and homophobic) biography of Lawrence.

@@RenaissanceMan29 Couldn't agree more with everything you just said,Andy,he was a product of the Victorian era he was born in,and proud of it,very much so!...

@@harrysecombegroupie If so, Homosexuality, Haphephobia, and Masochism, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Definitely needed the cleansing of the blood of Lord Jesus Christ, to be redeemed, to made whole.

Read it!

Trump your saviour

Trump never had humanitarian considerations other than those regarding his dumb, piggie children.

Yes a great movie. I can remember watching it and thinking a lot of poetic licence was used when portraying his flamboyant behaviour. That was until I saw a BBC film taken at the time of exactly that same flamboyant behaviour.

@@rogergibbs2937 Over 56,000 US troops died fighting in Vietnam. Over 72,000 died from suicide after they came home. That war killed more men after it was over then when it was being fought.

@@dukecraig2402 This seems unusually high. Were these suicides due to a conflict of conscience , post war trauma or maybe both?

@@2011littlejohn1 Well sounds unusually high or not it's a fact and is easily verified by looking it up online and verifying it with credible sources like the VA or the Department of Veterans affairs. Whether or not every one of their issues in life being attributed directly to the war is hard to say, undoubtedly some committed suicide over things that would have affected them that much whether or not they were in the war, and undoubtedly some committed suicide because just too much piled up on them in life starting with the things that happened in the war and maybe without those things and just the normal sorrows most people deal with they wouldn't have committed suicide, but either way in the years after the war there was over 72,000 who committed suicide that'd been in it. It was easier for those guys who came home from WW2 and Korea and not because of someone getting a parade, it was easier because afterwards was an era of economic growth never before seen, they had productive lives with decent paying job's and mortgage and car payments they paid off and could take care of their families instead of trying to figure out how too because the plant they worked at shut down, you feel successful and productive when you're making your payments in life and taking car of your family especially when you get those large investment things paid off, men need that feeling that comes along with those things, but when your plant shuts down and the economic rug gets pulled out from under you and you can't make your payments or sent your kids to college like the generation before you could you feel like a failure, I know, I've lived through that in life, and I couldn't imagine what would have happened if I'd have had a brain full of war experiences flying around up in my head on top of that, you get like that and it's either jump off a cliff or get on a rooftop with an AK47 and start getting even with the world, either way it ends badly for you.

@@dukecraig2402 Oh I wasn't disputing the figures. I'm British but play in a band with a Vietnam veteran and he at times has unpredictable mood swings. He also did not agree with the war itself and was heavily supportive of the peace movement.

@Richard Riley He did get there just for the fame, he got that but along the way he made some friends. Contradict me on that because I want to hear your side of the story.

@@romelnegut2005 I actually heard he had no interest in fame just maybe adventure and rescue people like the authurian knights in fact when he got famous he wanted to hide from the public

@@romelnegut2005 How refreshing to hear someone who wants to hear the other persons point of view 👍 Is that even allowed on social media anymore? 😂

@@tomkellycartoons As long as someone is willing to make his point clear without swearing, I'm open to listen to it.

Thank you.