Amazing Photos, How Lucky We Are

[trt]

to be alive to see them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4920636/Horror-Blitz-never-seen-before.html

[webbo3]

And what did the remainers say after brexit, the older generation have ruined our future, they need to take a long hard look at this and be grateful for the older generation.


Dave.

[murraymints]

scary though !

[webbo3]

Murray,

Very.

[murraymints]

very humbling to compare what we have and how we live now..to then...and yet smiles shine through the adversity...

[DTCwordfan]

the war finished 72 years ago, time to move on.

[jno]

Webbo, it was this generation that joined Europe in the first place and voted to stay in. It was Churchill who called for a United States of Europe.

If you must drag Brexit into it ...

[webbo3]

Jno, they never voted and would never have agree to what it is now, and im talking about the ones that accused the older generation who voted leave that they had ruined their future.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes we are lucky and we must never forget.

[jno]

There was a referendum a couple of years after joining, on whether to stay in or not.

But the people protesting now about the Brexit vote aren't blaming that wartime generation, of whom very few are left. The target is that generation's children, the famously self interested baby boomers.

[Tilly2]

I'm one of them and I voted to stay.

[tonyav]

There was a referendum a couple of years after joining, on whether to stay in or not.

Yep, I voted 'not' then and voted 'not' this time to.

[Peter Pedant]

// And what did the remainers say after brexit, the older generation have ruined our future,//
yes we did and we had - this is the generation which is now largely dead too dead to vote on Brexit kinduv. - even the oldest on this site AOG was too young to serve - but now not too old to vote and screw the younger generation

and what about those awful brown skinned muslims who must have been heaving the bombs out of the bomb bays of the German aircraft

but on a more honest note
the photo of the men browsing the library was.....
Holland House 1940 - once residence of Charles James Fox
which was bombed out as you see
so the Hollands sent a message to the people around them
The Library has been bombed - we cant do anything about it - the books are water soaked and so come in an help yourselves.....

(eyes to what was once the library of Charles James Fox)

sorry to spoil this thread with a contemporary reference (1940 and 1790) which is actually - true - and relevant

[Peter Pedant]

// It was Churchill who called for a United States of Europe. //
and george orwell if univ challenge last night is to be believed

Ch. made grand speeches in opposition and then when he came to power 1952 did diddly squat about joining

[jno]

You are exceptional, Tilly, but I knew that already.

I don't know why this stupid machine is trying to say you're deceptional. I'll have to discipline it.

[marval]

Amazing photos, hard to imagine what is was like for the people in them.

[Tilly2]

Thanks, Jno. :-(
What's that all about?