Pause For Thought, If Only We Knew Back Then?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2949887/V-Victory-PM-announces-three-days-parties-VE-Day-s-70th-anniversary.html

[Fitzer]

If only we knew what?

[Pocket_Rocket]

Knew what AOG?

[jourdain2]

So what's happened to us that we are no longer the same people? I am so sick of having everything we worked for & fought for, denigrated and given away. T.G. I did not vote for Blair . I was born after the war BTW, but feel the history and unity of my country - my ancestry goes back pre Norman invasion and I'm no-one special, no titles etc., just ordinary - is nowadays of no account. It isn't! It is my country! Again, sorry if this is too strong, but I am fed up of being so tolerant that other cultures gain precedence in my country.

[anotheoldgit]

/// If only we knew what? ///

/// Knew what AOG? ////

If you have to ask, then for you, I am afraid it is too late.

[Peter Pedant]

Go on tell us .....

I think a lot of us are confused ( or even just dont know ) and that is through years of being told that there is no point of saying "if only I knew then what I know now, " as it doesnt do anyone any good

As a child - I was always confused to be told there were two ends of the war VE day and then a month or two later VJ day - there were nt two starts to the war if you think about it.


Good revisionist history of the flattening of Dresden- diverging for a moment. The Beeb man said to the German historian -well the airmen must have known they were incinerating large numbers of civilians

and she came back with - the victims' narrative has held sway for too long - fifty years. The Russian slave labourers in Dresden for example thought O good we willbe liberated soon....

known what ... AOG
it is never too late to rewrite history as you well know