Remembering The Fallen

[murraymints]

6 June 1944 D-Day .... so many died so we may live in freedom.. never forgotten...

[naomi24]

Hear hear!

[Baldric]

Well said MM, agreed.

[kvalidir]

Yes very important to remember xx

[Islay]

Have been to the D Day landings sites many times - so quite and peaceful so different to how it was - a true monument.

[New Judge]

Indeed not.

Never to be forgotten along with all the other valiant acts of that terrible war and all the others before and since. That's why I get the hump when people run this country down and compare it to Nazi Germany. But don't start me off!

[rowanwitch]

To some extent it's worth remembering the ones who they left as well. Women who raised families without fathers, parents who lost sons for whom only the thought of their loved ones bravery would be comfort. Families who said goodbye, knowing that they might never see these young men again. Remember them all and learn from our memories. The learning is the legacy

[murraymints]

indeed Rowan a great sacrifice was made by the families too... heartbroken parents, struggling, bereaved and desolate wives and many children without fathers..they also are remembered...

[sunny-dave]

At this moment 74 years ago my father was in a landing craft waiting to land on Sword beach - with the Royal Signals.

He never forgot that day - and nor will I.

[zebo]

So true what Rowan said. At my mother's funeral the vicar talked about how my Dad had gone to India shortly after my brother was born and returned in 1946, but my brother died in early 1947 so he hardly knew him. I think that realisation upset me even more than my mother's death, my father had died years earlier, the loss of the family's life together.

[blulok]

Those brave men, women, children (and animals!) must be turning in their graves to see the mess their country is in now.

[Mamyalynne]

Remembering all they did for us.

[Lie-in King]

Always remembered.

[hereIam]

RIP and thanks to them all xxxx

I agree with you blulok.

[sandyRoe]

I think we should also remember the people who survived WW11 but came home badly damaged.
There was a man who lived just around the corner from me had suffered bad burns to his face and hands from war wounds. Another man would march every day along the road where my school was. We thought it shell shock then.
some people suffered injuries in the war that weren't that obvious.

[Canary42]

Remembering also all those brave men labelled by a leading Tory politician of the day as D-Day Dodgers. Men who left this country in 1942 and with no home leave spent 3 years fighting their way across the Western Desert and up the Italian Peninsula.

Also never forgotten.

[Barmaid]

74 years ago yesterday, my grandfather drove into Rome after seeing the horrors of the Italian campaign - not least Anzio and Monte Cassino. I had the huge honour and privelege of accompanying him to Italy five years ago where he was able to say "farewell" to some of his mates.

[david small]

Long may we remember them.