D Day Landings 65th Anniversary

[jims-terrano]

Hi All, I'm sure most of you who know me know that I have great respect for the Armed Forces and Veterans of the forces. Sorry (no I wont apologise) this isn't 4x4 related but I'd just like everyone to think about the sacrifice the allied forces made on the D Day landings that started 65 years ago tonight.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8084353.stm

They helped give us are freedom today


Thanks
Jim T

 

[Liam]

Have to agree,quite a large number of Irish involved back then and still involved in Iraq ,Afghanistan and elsewhere. Only right that they be remembered, from all the Allied countries.

 

[Deleted account DD]

It SHOULD be recognised.

It was quite moving listening to the anecdotes of a couple of old soldiers on R2 today.

Anyone who wants to see what a tremendous attitude the vets have should watch that series that was on recently about the Chelsea Pensioners.

 

[lacroupade]

Hi All, I'm sure most of you who know me know that I have great respect for the Armed Forces and Veterans of the forces. Sorry (no I wont apologise) this isn't 4x4 related but I'd just like everyone to think about the sacrifice the allied forces made on the D Day landings that started 65 years ago tonight.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8084353.stm

They helped give us are freedom today


Thanks
Jim T

Absolutely no idea why you'd need to apologise Jim?

When you see the sheer size of some of those war cemeteries it just blows your mind.

I often stop to wonder about all the things that might have been but never were because of all those people that died before their time.

 

[GoodOldBakes]

Amen to that Jim. Always been very supportive of the Armed Forces - past and present. Thing that gets my goat is that there's 18 and 19 year old lads serving now in Afgahnistan and Iraq, putting their lives on the line for their country, often with sub-standard kit and back home there's wasters of the same age hanging around street corners in every city and town, scrounging off the state, doing drugs, commiting crime, making folks lives a misery and they get treat better by the bloody government than the poor sods that are risking life and limb serving it.

Anyway, back to the original point. If I'm honest I don't really think that we can ever fully comprehend the true sacrifice these fellas made and the horrors that they experienced on that day. They should NEVER be forgotten.

 

[Deleted account DD]

I can see what youre saying and agree. One of ours was a troubled youth, joined the Artillery now 22 and currently in Afghanistan.

Seems to be hacking it. I think he realised us oldies do know something, I warned him the first time he was shot at would be slightly different for real compared to all the training...........judging by the message we got back when it happened he agreed :thumb2

Very sad though, a Welsh guardsman from his battle group, on the same patrol one day was an early casualty of their tour that hit him hard.

I have to be honest it is really moving when you see the repatriation and the cortege.

I could have dealt with those protestors a while back who marred the marching home for a regiment without a flicker of conscience

Support them all the way :thumbs

 

[millie2]

Having just got back from normandy with 70, 10/11 yr olds it realy hits home when you see their faces, going again on monday for another week with another 68 hope they realise the losses were for them. KEV.:thumb2

 

[lacroupade]

Having just got back from normandy with 70, 10/11 yr olds it realy hits home when you see their faces, going again on monday for another week with another 68 hope they realise the losses were for them. KEV.:thumb2

How did they take it Kev out of interest?

 

[lacroupade]

I could have dealt with those protestors a while back who marred the marching home for a regiment without a flicker of conscience

Yes, being a slightly right wing angry old git (almost), there are times when a bit of old-fashioned policing wouldn't go amiss, if ya know what I mean!

 

[millie2]

they realy enjoyed the whole experience and understood what it meant.

 

[willow]

I'm with you Jim:thumbs

We should never forget

We can't even begin to imagine what it was like

Lives over before they had begun for us

 

[Deleted account DD]

Good one Kev:thumb2

It really does grip me that in other quarters there doesnt seem to be much emphasis on teaching history these days.

I remember seeing the results of a poll not so long back and amongst 11 to 17 year olds there was an overiding ignorance of the two WWars as our generation knew them.

Fair enough multi cultural so called "life skills" and knowing how to operate an ipod may be important but you know what they say about those who ignore their history.

back on topic, it must have been quite an exceptional commemoration for them to attend. I was listening to a chap explaining how this was the last of the D Day assoc visits and the org was winding up.

 

[Adz]

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Will be forgotten with future generations

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