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Are We *ever* Going To Get Over Wwii ?
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Yet another commemoration - this time 70 years of the Atlantic campaign
http:// www.bbc .co.uk/ news/uk -224347 53
Given that WWII lasted about 5 years by the time you've commemorated a VE day anniversary it seems time to start celebrating anothe anniversary of the start of the War!
I hear the cries of 'ingrate' already and patriotic chests puffing up like pidgeons - but WWI was just as formative to those who fought in it and I don't recall continual commemorations of that from my childhood.
Why are we so obsessed with WWII and are we ever going to get over it?
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Given that WWII lasted about 5 years by the time you've commemorated a VE day anniversary it seems time to start celebrating anothe anniversary of the start of the War!
I hear the cries of 'ingrate' already and patriotic chests puffing up like pidgeons - but WWI was just as formative to those who fought in it and I don't recall continual commemorations of that from my childhood.
Why are we so obsessed with WWII and are we ever going to get over it?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.We don't "celebrate" the Boer War any more, because all the people involved in it are dead, and we have had others wars since.
But the Boer war was a big deal at the time, look at this photo here of one company returning from the war, and look at the huge crowds coming out to see them.
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But the Boer war was a big deal at the time, look at this photo here of one company returning from the war, and look at the huge crowds coming out to see them.
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Clearly you'll never get over it jake. It seems to upset you alot.
I think the special thing about ww2 is that the consequences of an allied loss would have been more horrific than any other conflict in living memory including ww1. Imagine how many more people would have been murdered if the Nazis had won. It really doesn't bear thinking about, and that's what makes it special - in my opinion.
I think the special thing about ww2 is that the consequences of an allied loss would have been more horrific than any other conflict in living memory including ww1. Imagine how many more people would have been murdered if the Nazis had won. It really doesn't bear thinking about, and that's what makes it special - in my opinion.
p.s. That photo was from Canada, but I have seen other similar pictures in London, but cant find them on the web.
I have an old book from the 1930s full of historic photographs, and one of them shows the streets of London once the Boer war finished, and the streets were PACKED with people celebrating.
The Boer war was a big deal then, but something most people are hardly aware of nowadays.
I have an old book from the 1930s full of historic photographs, and one of them shows the streets of London once the Boer war finished, and the streets were PACKED with people celebrating.
The Boer war was a big deal then, but something most people are hardly aware of nowadays.
I think Tommo's correct: there would have been more WW1 celebrations in my youth, but they were overtaken by WW2 ones.
My history's shaky but I think (a) the end of the Boer War was celebrated because there were times when Britain had looked like losing; and (b) people were as fearful of Napoleon as they were of Hitler, thinking they'd all be guillotined.
My history's shaky but I think (a) the end of the Boer War was celebrated because there were times when Britain had looked like losing; and (b) people were as fearful of Napoleon as they were of Hitler, thinking they'd all be guillotined.
Just guessing Jake, but you were not born at the start of WW2, never lived in the bombings by the Luftwaffe. The Nazis were occupying Europe country by country and the stories of atrocities permeated into the UK across the channel.
The UK was next for the efficient and ruthless German army and we were ill prepared for war.
Many people who lived through that period are still alive and are willing to show their appropriation Britain's Fighting forces who kept at bay the eager enemy.
Seems pretty straightforward to me Jake...... ......but don't worry the likes of me will be dead in a decade and then you will have your way.
The UK was next for the efficient and ruthless German army and we were ill prepared for war.
Many people who lived through that period are still alive and are willing to show their appropriation Britain's Fighting forces who kept at bay the eager enemy.
Seems pretty straightforward to me Jake...... ......but don't worry the likes of me will be dead in a decade and then you will have your way.
barney....are you suggesting that Mr and Mrs Average don't wear suits?
I have seen more money go down the "plughole" in the NHS, money that came out of my N.I and taxes and it is nice to see, at times like this, people having a say in what they want to to with their hard earned cash.....yes..even resurrecting a Dornier.
I have seen more money go down the "plughole" in the NHS, money that came out of my N.I and taxes and it is nice to see, at times like this, people having a say in what they want to to with their hard earned cash.....yes..even resurrecting a Dornier.
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