Not sure what they do in Germany, re-WW2.
I watched some coverage on the BBC news earlier though of gents and ladies who were involved in WW2, attending D-Day commemorations and it was special. These veterans deserve all our respect. Brings a lump to the throat.
These veterans deserve all our respect. Brings a lump to the throat.
Agreed. I'm quite an emotionless person, and am not easily moved, but I am slightly when I see these teary old WW2 veterans speaking with a mixture of modesty and reflection on their courageous exploits.
Haven't watched any of it. Even my parents weren't born then.
While I have not watched it, i don't watch TV, I do have respect for them. Your parents may not have been born then,, but if it was not for these men, they may have been born into a far different world.
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Haven't watched any of it. Even my parents weren't born then.
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Some offhand views posted earlier make it easier to understand why some of us might ask ourselves would those gallant men and women have been so willing to fight or die in ww2 now we see what the UK has become today. !
Originally Posted by kampffenhoff
Haven't watched any of it. Even my parents weren't born then.
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While I have not watched it, i don't watch TV, I do have respect for them. Your parents may not have been born then,, but if it was not for these men, they may have been born into a far different world.
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Those two offhand views posted earlier make it easier to understand why some of us might ask ourselves would those gallant men and women have been so willing to fight or die in ww2 now we see what the UK has become today. !
I don't see these as offhand views.
You can't really expect the effects of the beginning of the 1st World War to be as strong on the consciousness of the general public, a hundred years on.
You've come to the right place then. DS is the spiritual home of people who like to make the effort to tell everybody else how they dislike or don't care about something, or are uninterested in it.
You've come to the right place then. DS is the spiritual home of people who like to make the effort to tell everybody else how they dislike or don't care about something, or are uninterested in it.
Yes, it's called Free Speech. If we should learn anything about the two world wars is that millions died for us so we can still have democracy and free speech. Those who oppose war or say they have no interest have just a valid a view as those who say they do. I'm glad we can question and hold an opposing view to events in history.
my view has always been that the German infantry are as gallant as the allied infantry and the allied veterans i have seen interviewed and asked about that also have that view. I think that the Germans do have have a place on these memorials, they lost comrades too. Whether they are or not i don't know!
Yes, it's called Free Speech. If we should learn anything about the two world wars is that millions died for us so we can still have democracy and free speech. Those who oppose war or say they have no interest have just a valid a view as those who say they do. I'm glad we can question and hold an opposing view to events in history.
I suppose it's a shame then that it isn't better exercised than merely to pop up and say how the topic at hand is of no interest to you.
But unlike Obama, who will lay a wreath at the U.S. cemetery, Merkel is not scheduled to visit the graves of her countrymen who died fighting for Normandy. And unlike the U.S., British and Canadian war cemeteries, whose funding comes from independent commissions of those governments, this one is maintained through voluntary donations under a private German association.
On Wednesday, hundreds of visitors—American and British World War II veterans, and yes, some Germans too—walked through the stone arch of the German cemetery, and into the sweeping manicured lawns of the graveyard. There, they stood almost speechless, taking in the shocking magnitude of casualties, as they gazed at the dark-brown tombstones embedded in the grass. Many seemed almost overwhelmed by the crushing sense of death, aware that Germany in the late 1940s—bankrupt, and morally destroyed—did not choose to bring their soldiers’ bodies home.
All very poignant, and I'm feeling a bit tearful. I never heard him speak of it, but my grandfather, who was in Patton's 3rd Army, I believe landed in France after D-day (Hopefully if Phylo is reading this, he can can help me with the details there!). He was a volunteer and had given up a place at university and spot on the basketball team to join the army. He met my Grandma at the Hammersmith Palais, they continued to correspond during his year in France, even proposing in one of those letter. After the war, they married in London, and my grandma shipped out on the Queen Mary. Even into their 80s they could still jitterbug.
He died two and a half years ago and she died two months ago. I realise I'm gushing but I genuinely have so much reverence for them and that entire generation.
my view has always been that the German infantry are as gallant as the allied infantry and the allied veterans i have seen interviewed and asked about that also have that view. I think that the Germans do have have a place on these memorials, they lost comrades too. Whether they are or not i don't know!
The Germans have their own war graves commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge in German) There are German war graves at Cannock Chase cemetery(not D day,obviously). There are German graves in Fance.
The Germans have their own war graves commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge in German) There are German war graves at Cannock Chase cemetery. There are German graves in Fance.
sorry, i meant AT these memorials as in, the event. Not the physical stone epitaphs.
You can't really expect the effects of the beginning of the 1st World War to be as strong on the consciousness of the general public, a hundred years on.
You are obviously ignorant of history, D.Day was the 2nd World War in 1944, typical yoof of today only interested in Reality t.v. shows. You should watch some of the t.v. reports and listen to the memories of the old soldiers who were there, most of them only teenagers.
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I watched some coverage on the BBC news earlier though of gents and ladies who were involved in WW2, attending D-Day commemorations and it was special. These veterans deserve all our respect. Brings a lump to the throat.
Agreed. I'm quite an emotionless person, and am not easily moved, but I am slightly when I see these teary old WW2 veterans speaking with a mixture of modesty and reflection on their courageous exploits.
Fascinating.
Yooof of today I'm sure that posters grandparents were though.
I'd have expected a more insightful comment from an accountant.
While I have not watched it, i don't watch TV, I do have respect for them. Your parents may not have been born then,, but if it was not for these men, they may have been born into a far different world.
Haven't watched any of it. Even my parents weren't born then.
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Some offhand views posted earlier make it easier to understand why some of us might ask ourselves would those gallant men and women have been so willing to fight or die in ww2 now we see what the UK has become today. !
I don't see these as offhand views.
You can't really expect the effects of the beginning of the 1st World War to be as strong on the consciousness of the general public, a hundred years on.
You've come to the right place then. DS is the spiritual home of people who like to make the effort to tell everybody else how they dislike or don't care about something, or are uninterested in it.
Yes, it's called Free Speech. If we should learn anything about the two world wars is that millions died for us so we can still have democracy and free speech. Those who oppose war or say they have no interest have just a valid a view as those who say they do. I'm glad we can question and hold an opposing view to events in history.
my view has always been that the German infantry are as gallant as the allied infantry and the allied veterans i have seen interviewed and asked about that also have that view. I think that the Germans do have have a place on these memorials, they lost comrades too. Whether they are or not i don't know!
I suppose it's a shame then that it isn't better exercised than merely to pop up and say how the topic at hand is of no interest to you.
http://time.com/2826794/at-d-day-commemoration-few-mourn-the-wars-losers/
And that has something to do with it how???
I've been to La Cambe, it's a very poignant place. Thousands of men.
Well I just did. It's called engaging in a conversation. I just stated the reason above.
He died two and a half years ago and she died two months ago. I realise I'm gushing but I genuinely have so much reverence for them and that entire generation.
I know this is to do with the Pacific Theatre, but as an aside I was sad to read that the last of the Navajo code talkers died the other day: http://www.azcentral.com/news/native-americans/?content=codetalker#ixzz33hB2FYyJ
If that's your idea of conversation you must be a blast at parties...
The Germans have their own war graves commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge in German) There are German war graves at Cannock Chase cemetery(not D day,obviously). There are German graves in Fance.
sorry, i meant AT these memorials as in, the event. Not the physical stone epitaphs.
You are obviously ignorant of history, D.Day was the 2nd World War in 1944, typical yoof of today only interested in Reality t.v. shows. You should watch some of the t.v. reports and listen to the memories of the old soldiers who were there, most of them only teenagers.