This year, June the 6th will be 62 years since D Day when the British landed on "Gold beach and Sword Beach"
But with the added interest this year, the first time that the 27th of June will be the National Veterans Day.
I wonder if Swanage will be doing soemthing?
Does anyone know of any plans to celebrate the first National Veterans Day?
Brian Guy
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Posted by Anonymous to swanage view at 6/01/2006 10:13:55 PM
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being I am pushing along in my Eighties, I thought that on the 27th vets day, it would be great to cover the car with car flags. with all the Normandy and Arnhem battles insignia. (If I can get them?) If nothing else it will brighten the place up a bit.
Anyone got any ideas where to buy battle flags?
Brian
For goodness sake - it was such a long time ago, so just give it a rest, and move on. The rest of the world has.
How can you write something like this? Have you ever been to a military cemetary? Have you ever visited Normandie during the D-Day celebrations? Maybe you should and most of all you should respect the men and women who gave their lives and youth to come over to make us free again. Yes, I'm French and we remember and honour those heroes.
Hey anonymous, you ungrateful brat. These fellows gave their lives and blood for you. Show a little respect.
Brooke
Anonymous... move on with what? With our own selfish lives? With talking about wether or not Wayne Rooney will be able to play in Germany? Or with other, equally 'important' things?
The men who fought for us 62 years ago made a difference. A huge difference. Without them, our lives would have been miserable. For instance, we'd probably had to listen to German Schlager-music on radio and television all day long.
In this day and age, where even ordinary punks and hardcore hooligans ask for (and get) 'a little respect'... the least you can do is show some respect for the men who bearly left school when they landed on "Gold" and "Sword" and from there, fought their way to Berlin. Liberating millions of innocent people in the process.
Some of these men are living right around your corner. Shake their hand and listen to their stories... who knows, you might learn a thing or two.
Bart
Yes, time has moved on indeed. And it's so easy to push the war into the rubbish bin of past memory.
However, to do that, is to take the risk of it all happening again. It has, in many countries, where civil war and ethnic cleansing still goes on.
I show homage to the generations of our young men who fought in both World Wars. They had no axe to grind, nothing to gain by volunteering to put their lives at risk. But did so for the future generations who should show a little respect now. It doesn't cost much to stand and think and say thank you.
I know that some of the old Vets get criticised for living in the past....Rightly, for we do just that!
Why? simply this: many of us find it very difficult to forget those momentous days, and put behind us the memory of those that never came home. Those tens of thousands of young men.
For we lived, fell in love, married, had kids. Saw summer days here in the green fields of England. Tasted all that is wonderful here.
So I shall continue to keep them in mind, for they never had the chance to experience all the joys, pleasures, and heartaches, of the wonderful life that came my way.
Brian Guy
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