75Th Anniversary Of D Day

[mushroom25]

A concert is due to be held on Sword Beach, Ouistreham on the 6th June 2019, the 75th anniversary of D Day. Good Idea? Dame Vera Lynn (and others) don't appear to be in favour...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/22/dame-vera-lynn-breaks-link-d-day-concert-organisers-backlash/

the concert is said to be aimed at "millennials", and urges them to "fight for freedom"; it's also said only artists with a “fitting message” and style would be included - although without knowing what the organiser's message is, the line up will be difficult to predict.

organiser's website here - https://www.libertyconcert.org/en/events

a concert on sword beach. good idea? or wrong place and time for a concert for the young?

[bednobs]

dame vera lynn could well be dead by then!

[Mamyalynne]

I can see both points of view here, when you aim something at one section of people there's always a chance it won't sit well with another.

I can understand Dame Vera stepping away at this point.

[ichkeria]

Me too. It does seem a potentially inappropriate place for it

[10ClarionSt]

Can't see anything wrong with it. Important history. On a wider scale, it was the yanks that won the war. That's where the "Special Relationship" started, when we had to share intelligence after Germany declared war on the U.S. Prior to that, in the thirties, America had plans to declare war on Great Britain, which they were going to start by invading Canada. No "Special Relationship" then!

[Baldric]

Read the OP, thought it was a good idea, thoughtI might even give it a go if I got the chance.
Read the Links and have changed my mind.

[Mamyalynne]

Commemorate I totally agree with and it can be both loud and joyous and solemn too - rethink the precise location though.

[kvalidir]

I'm so conflicted about this, on one hand I think anything which brings young people closer to and leads them to have a greater knowledge about WWII has to be good, and I don't think for a moment that anyone is being intentionally disrespectful, indeed what better way to celebrate the huge sacrifice that these men made then by joyously celebrating freedom, however I can see why people are uneasy and angry about it too, there are still people lost on the beach, there are dreadful memories still in the minds of those who lived through that period, so I think nearby might have been a better call. I'm genuinely very conflicted, and I think it will depend on how they handle the guest list and who they have as to whether I fall one way or the other on it tbh.

[Mamyalynne]

It is difficult but I agree, nearby but not on the beach.

[mushroom25]

//On a wider scale, it was the yanks that won the war. //

I'm not sure what point you're making, in the context of the OP. are you saying that because the yanks won, that it's ok for a bunch of opportunistic festival organisers to trample over the sensitivities of the british vets who were actually on sword beach in 1944?

[kvalidir]

I dislike the notion that 'Yanks won the War'- that simplistic and frankly rides rough shod over all of the other people who certainly got the war to a point where it could be won by anyone :/

[ToraToraTora]

10CS "On a wider scale, it was the yanks that won the war" - so we had nowt to do with it eh? Right oh? what a nasty piece of work you are.

[Peter Pedant]

// 10CS "On a wider scale, it was the yanks that won the war" - yappirty yappity yap Right oh? o god this has to be 3T.//

agreed - american industry won and there was a huge transfer of capital from Europe to Amerikee in the late forties and fifties to pay for it all

won both ways - end of! as 3T might quip

as a result of this american industry seemed to be invincible until ..... the vietnam war.

progz on how history is rewritten and looking at the second world war - history as that which people find interesting ...... interesting view