We'll Meet Again?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2995326/We-ll-meet-21st-Century-style-Dame-Vera-set-join-VE-Day-anniversary-extravaganza-98-high-tech-video-link.html

/// Ministers will today announce a three-day spectacular, including wartime-themed parties, the lighting of a chain of beacons, a veterans’ parade, an RAF fly-past and a 1940s-themed celebrity pop concert. ///

A three day spectacular the day after the General Election, will some feel like celebrating I ask?

But politics aside, there is nothing that the generation who can remember WW2 like more than a jolly good knees up, (not to be taken too literally of course) but really will it be appreciated by those who have no memory of those joyous events?

[New Judge]

“…if those who hadn't could appreciate the sheer jubilation in knowing that this horrendous time was at last over, at least for us in Europe.”

I’ve often tried to imagine it, AOG, but only having second or third hand details of what the horrors were like I find even my (often vivid!) imagination to be somewhat lacking. I can only try to grasp what people went through for those six long years and so try to gain some idea of how joyous it must have been when it was all over.

That’s why I think it is important that people do not forget all of this just yet. Of course it will fade as all the people who went through it eventually pass on (as WW1 seems to be receding). But however hard done by many people in the UK believe they are they are they are extremely well off, safe and comfortable compared to the situation in which my parents – and millions like them - found themselves. My mother was just nine and my father thirteen in 1945). I can only imagine how they felt in 1945 having lost six of their younger years.

I just hope the government does not make a pig's ear of the arrangements. But I'm not holding my breath.

[mushroom25]

//I just hope the government does not make a pig's ear of the arrangements. But I'm not holding my breath. //

maybe, maybe not - but you can rely on the BBC to read the mood of the nation incorrectly and end up with totally inappropriate coverage. commemorative sick bag, anyone?

[icecreamicecream]

Excellently put(again),NJ.

[New Judge]

Sorry. My Mum & Dad were 9 and 13 at the beginning of the war (1939).

[icecreamicecream]

No need to apologise,old boy.