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VE Day 70th Anniversary
TeeGee
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I get a feeling that nobody really cares. It is perhaps worth just a few seconds to remember what all those people died for.
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Yes, but we can do this, and should be thankful, all of the time.
Much the same as everybody running off to a funeral when they never gave a sh1te when the person was alive...
Right, off to make my facebook message about "feeling blessed for all the wonderful people (heroes) who gave their lives for my today" etc etc - you get the message - it's all about show!
Just spare a thought every now and then, and be respectful and polite to everybody, all of the time! That's BigAndy9's motto ;-)
That's great for BigAndy9, who I know is another DS poster. But what's your motto?
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BigAndy9 was me, for one day last year.
I then joined the other week, couldn't remember my BigAndy9 password hence i joined as BigAndy99.
I then put more effort in, managed to log in as BigAndy9, made a post on the "greetings" thread saying as such so the mods disabled one of the accounts.
So, in reality i am actually BigAndy9
It's not until the 8th.
If it had been today Cameron would have been all over it, looking sombre and responsible and playing the Patriotism card
I am one of those who grew up through the war years but I guess that as we become fewer and die off then VE day will sadly become of less interest or less spoken about with present and future generations as the years go by.
Or else, like the rest of Europe, we are becoming less obsessed with all things WW2 and are allowing these events to recede into past history ?
We need to move on.
I certainly will not be silent for the two minutes.
I do not celebrate anything to do with violence.
...so you won't even commemorate the END of the greatest war that has ever affected this planet?
There never was a good war and as far as I am concerned war itself is immoral, I view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Of course war is undesirable, however one result of an ill prepared and weak GB standing up to Hitler in WW2 as he proceeded to invade and conquer most of Europe has allowed you to post as you have whereas had we lost then you could have ended up as a piece of soap or an inmate in one of his many death camps.
WW2 was huge in our history and whilst there are those still alive who fought and those who lived through it and lost family and friends then we should rightly commemorate it.
With regard to the rest of Europe there are events occurring all over just as there are in the UK .
With WW2 is tends to have been the round figures that have been the big commemorations, and to be honest waiting for 75 would see less veterans still alive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02p6vwl/broadcasts/upcoming
There are quite a few things arranged for it
Would you have been in favour of allowing Hitler to take over Europe then?
It's time to move on!
If the Africans can move on due to slavery then why can't we move on?
To be honest we still hear a fair bit about slavery, and apologies have been dished out in recent years, yet there there isn't really anyone around who lived through what you are talking about.
The 2nd World War is still something many remember, and certainly many have had parents who were involved.
This was also something that could have resulted in Nazism across Europe.
You were complaining about the violence of war, and I asked if you would have rather let Hitler have his war, than engage him in war?
Can you imagine how horrendous and horrific it would be if we were all under the rule of a fuhrer and the Holocoust was still happening today?