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D-Day Commemoration, Portsmouth
Britain does these things so very well!
Lump in throat, tear in eye – and that from someone who wasn’t around on D-Day but is nevertheless eternally grateful for the sacrifice made by that generation. I hope it is never forgotten. Heartfelt thanks to them all.
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Lump in throat, tear in eye – and that from someone who wasn’t around on D-Day but is nevertheless eternally grateful for the sacrifice made by that generation. I hope it is never forgotten. Heartfelt thanks to them all.
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// all aspects of the D-Day landings.//
well done that doctor for using the right word - landings. Not invasion - you cant invade your own country or an ally.
I found it wrecked by commentators using the word invasion which was a signal for - "hullo everyone - this commentator doesnt know what he is talking about and hasnt looked it up either"
a bit like 'what dat den' used as a crushing one liner on AB.
Paras parachuting from Spitfires - excuse me.... ?
The 16 y old writing to his parents at age 16 - do not grieve for me je meurs pour la Patrie ! - in 1943, the year before D Day
Isolationist Trump ( take the (immigrant) kids to the camps - it is the parents doing this) talking about FDR - who was bringing liberation and freeing the peoples of Europe
boogie woogie bugler as a song and dance routine
at a service commemorating the dead
all the old soldiers wondered what that was about ....
I didnt have a good morning
from my fathers diary ( at least it is contemporary)
“7/6/44. Before our parole walk a rumour started that there was a Second Front. At first it left me cold but I soon began to feel that perhaps today is really historic. Collected some lilies of the valley on the walk.”
One of the interpreters called Piccadilly Jim had worked as a waiter in London. Everyone badgered him for news and his B 17 a 07 157 irritable reply, “Don’t worry. We’re doing quite well.” could be interpreted in any sense we pleased.
10/6/44. Swiss arrived. No earthly hope of repatriation of doctors. They said that there is an acute shortage and volunteers from England will be required. I said it was all rubbish; there were already too many in the camp and if there was a shortage anywhere, I would go at once.
well done that doctor for using the right word - landings. Not invasion - you cant invade your own country or an ally.
I found it wrecked by commentators using the word invasion which was a signal for - "hullo everyone - this commentator doesnt know what he is talking about and hasnt looked it up either"
a bit like 'what dat den' used as a crushing one liner on AB.
Paras parachuting from Spitfires - excuse me.... ?
The 16 y old writing to his parents at age 16 - do not grieve for me je meurs pour la Patrie ! - in 1943, the year before D Day
Isolationist Trump ( take the (immigrant) kids to the camps - it is the parents doing this) talking about FDR - who was bringing liberation and freeing the peoples of Europe
boogie woogie bugler as a song and dance routine
at a service commemorating the dead
all the old soldiers wondered what that was about ....
I didnt have a good morning
from my fathers diary ( at least it is contemporary)
“7/6/44. Before our parole walk a rumour started that there was a Second Front. At first it left me cold but I soon began to feel that perhaps today is really historic. Collected some lilies of the valley on the walk.”
One of the interpreters called Piccadilly Jim had worked as a waiter in London. Everyone badgered him for news and his B 17 a 07 157 irritable reply, “Don’t worry. We’re doing quite well.” could be interpreted in any sense we pleased.
10/6/44. Swiss arrived. No earthly hope of repatriation of doctors. They said that there is an acute shortage and volunteers from England will be required. I said it was all rubbish; there were already too many in the camp and if there was a shortage anywhere, I would go at once.
Gromit
/// Trump famously avoided the Vietnam Draft 5 times apparently because he had ‘bad feet’. Which didn’t seem to hamper him while playing baseball, football and soccer to ‘pro standard’ at Military Academy. ///
Since it seems obvious that you have never served your country in a military fashion.
You would not realise that one can be deferred due to one attending college etc, or even working in certain employment,. just as a number were in this country during WW2.
Regarding him escaping the draft on medical issues, one doesn't only have to declare them one's self but have to go through extensive medical examinations.
/// Trump famously avoided the Vietnam Draft 5 times apparently because he had ‘bad feet’. Which didn’t seem to hamper him while playing baseball, football and soccer to ‘pro standard’ at Military Academy. ///
Since it seems obvious that you have never served your country in a military fashion.
You would not realise that one can be deferred due to one attending college etc, or even working in certain employment,. just as a number were in this country during WW2.
Regarding him escaping the draft on medical issues, one doesn't only have to declare them one's self but have to go through extensive medical examinations.
I'm struggling to understand your reply ichkeria, in case you're missing my point I'll try to explain it more clearly.
Rockrose saw an item on ITV news in which a large group of elderly Frenchwomen expressed their anger at the mass slaughter of civilians by the allies during the D Day landings.
I failed to track it down but found a recent BBC item covering the same events which featured a group of elderly French civilian eyewitnesses.
In my view, the people interviewed by the BBC gave more measured descriptions of the events of that day when compared to those expressed in the ITV piece that Rockrose viewed (which I'm still trying to locate).
I'm sorry if my use of the adjective vis-a-vis the BBC has led you to focus solely on the broadcaster at the expense of the eyewitnesses.
Rockrose saw an item on ITV news in which a large group of elderly Frenchwomen expressed their anger at the mass slaughter of civilians by the allies during the D Day landings.
I failed to track it down but found a recent BBC item covering the same events which featured a group of elderly French civilian eyewitnesses.
In my view, the people interviewed by the BBC gave more measured descriptions of the events of that day when compared to those expressed in the ITV piece that Rockrose viewed (which I'm still trying to locate).
I'm sorry if my use of the adjective vis-a-vis the BBC has led you to focus solely on the broadcaster at the expense of the eyewitnesses.
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Wonderful commemoration and a last chance to thank the participants who had to endure. To endure so that the gainsayers and peevish could speak freely without fear.
Bang on Ken @150.03.
Glublub……...last on the beach, First in the queue for "benefits" no doubt.
Were the heroic veterans we saw the same people that the Remainiacs have been looking forward to dying because they value freedom and were brave enough to do something about it?
Bang on Ken @150.03.
Glublub……...last on the beach, First in the queue for "benefits" no doubt.
Were the heroic veterans we saw the same people that the Remainiacs have been looking forward to dying because they value freedom and were brave enough to do something about it?
As probably one of the older ABers, on June 5th/6th June 1944 I was at home in Brixton on a short break from evacuation and was woken by the heavy sound of low flying aircraft overhead. It was a partly clouded moonlit night and when I looked out of the window I saw a mass of aircraft towing huge gliders. The stream seemed to go on for hours. I shall never forget it.
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