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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: TheBoy on 06 June 2024, 17:20:04
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I note, sadly, the UK TV channels have not bothered this anniversary, I'm sure Celebrity Tits Out is more important.
As, not only Overload but all of the 2nd minor disagreement, falls out of living memory, remembering and learning from this time in history is important, more so as we head into a period of heightened global tension.
If ever you get a chance to visit the coast of Normandy, ignoring what some may think of the French, Socialist, EU, whatever, I would urge you to do so. Not only to pay your respects for those that never made it back, but also to understand those few weeks in history.
Lest we forget.
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Many were wet behind the ears 18 and 19 year olds.
Something they never forgot.....if they survived.
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BBC had wall to wall coverage of the memorial service this morning. Quite moving seeing the old veterans giving eulogies, probably their last chance to go there for some. Heroes to a man.
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Many were wet behind the ears 18 and 19 year olds.
Something they never forgot.....if they survived.
Many much younger.
Certainly not many left :'(
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BBC had wall to wall coverage of the memorial service this morning. Quite moving seeing the old veterans giving eulogies, probably there last chance to go there for some. Heroes to a man.
Oooo, I missed that, despite channel flicking a bit - whilst working, obviously....
S'pose it makes sense they will show it, as it was one of their journalists behind the British memorial over there. Really glad they did cover it :y, I'll go take a gander at iPlayer.
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I think it's easy to be blasé about the whole thing - I know I was when I went to the American cemetery near Omaha Beach for the first time. We've all seen Shaving Ryans Privates and The Longest Day, and know the yanks took a kicking. As we approached the cemetery, we were talking about how there were "only" 9000 US graves (for the whole Overlord operation, not just 6th June 1944). Then you walk into the 170 acre field, and I defy anyone not to be moved, even a heartless bastard like me.
I've been a few times, and its always equally sombering...
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Quite a bit of coverage on Radio 2 this morning.
Driving back home through Northern France a few years back we stopped at a few war cemeteries. The German cemeteries were as moving if not more so than ours .... 4 names to a cross & a stylised grave stone with Jewish dead from the 1st World War interspersed within the crosses. 😕
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I think it's easy to be blasé about the whole thing - I know I was when I went to the American cemetery near Omaha Beach for the first time. We've all seen Shaving Ryans Privates and The Longest Day, and know the yanks took a kicking. As we approached the cemetery, we were talking about how there were "only" 9000 US graves (for the whole Overlord operation, not just 6th June 1944). Then you walk into the 170 acre field, and I defy anyone not to be moved, even a heartless bastard like me.
I've been a few times, and its always equally sombering...
https://youtu.be/hdBEyitJ7Qc?feature=shared (https://youtu.be/hdBEyitJ7Qc?feature=shared)
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Watched the majority of the coverage , very moving especially when the 98 & 100 year old soldiers are moved to tears explaining what they witnessed and how helpless they felt watching their comrades fall. We must never forget.
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Apparently a recent survey said that around 50% of British young people have no or little knowledge of D-Day. :-\
I guess history lessons are all about the trans Atlantic slave trade and the bad bits of our colonial past these days. :-X ::)
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Too bloody true
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I think it's easy to be blasé about the whole thing - I know I was when I went to the American cemetery near Omaha Beach for the first time. We've all seen Shaving Ryans Privates and The Longest Day, and know the yanks took a kicking. As we approached the cemetery, we were talking about how there were "only" 9000 US graves (for the whole Overlord operation, not just 6th June 1944). Then you walk into the 170 acre field, and I defy anyone not to be moved, even a heartless bastard like me.
I've been a few times, and its always equally sombering...
We went to Normandy several times in the seventies, before they cleared the wreckage from the beaches. The sheer amount of stuff visible when the tide went out was sobering even to a 7 year old.
The smaller cemeteries scattered throughout the countryside are just as shocking.
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Rishi seems to be receiving a boll*ocking for leaving early.
He looks deeply uncomfortable.
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Probably doesnt really understand what all the fuss us about. He had a lengthy photo opportunity there. Then left for another one. Simples. ::)
Added to the fact the Tory election broadcast the other night had the Union flag flying upside down, it shows the days of the Tories being genuine patriots are long gone.
As a side note - We sent the best we had to French beaches 80 years ago.
Look what the French are sending to our beaches now. :(
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Can’t see why they can’t have a large squad of people waiting for these boats to load up and then puncture them before they leave, that’s surely not illegal. An easy solution, what could go wrong?
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Probably doesnt really understand what all the fuss us about. He had a lengthy photo opportunity there. Then left for another one. Simples. ::)
Added to the fact the Tory election broadcast the other night had the Union flag flying upside down, it shows the days of the Tories being genuine patriots are long gone.
As a side note - We sent the best we had to French beaches 80 years ago.
Look what the French are sending to our beaches now. :(
I think I've figured Sunak out. He was/is constantly being criticised by a certain group within his own party, with rumours of a no confidence vote being mooted almost weekly. He's probably thought "I don't need this, I've tried my best, you miserable bunch of tossers. I'm going to call a general election, that'll shut you all up, then I'm deliberately going to try and lose it. Then I'm off to a very well paid job in the USA, while you bunch of old women will all lose your seats, and your jobs. Up yours,"
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Of course the first Minister of Norn Irn didnt bother turning up at all for any D Day events.
No big surprise that her hatred of all things British surpasses even remembering the defeat of the Nazis. >:(
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A bit of a stupid thing to do Mr Sunak in the scheme of things, but he ain't going to be around much longer.
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A bit of a stupid thing to do Mr Sunak in the scheme of things, but he ain't going to be around much longer.
That's the thing. He'll be sunning himself by the pool of his Californian mansion come August, and his kids will have already been enrolled at nearby schools for the new term, which is probably the real reason we are having an election in early July rather than late November. :-X
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A bit of a stupid thing to do Mr Sunak in the scheme of things, but he ain't going to be around much longer.
That's the thing. He'll be sunning himself by the pool of his Californian mansion come August, and his kids will have already been enrolled at nearby schools for the new term, which is probably the real reason we are having an election in early July rather than late November. :-X
See post #15
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A bit of a stupid thing to do Mr Sunak in the scheme of things, but he ain't going to be around much longer.
That's the thing. He'll be sunning himself by the pool of his Californian mansion come August, and his kids will have already been enrolled at nearby schools for the new term, which is probably the real reason we are having an election in early July rather than late November. :-X
See post #15
You didn't think about the timing of the election so he could get his kids in new schools at the start of the new term though did you? ??? :)
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A bit of a stupid thing to do Mr Sunak in the scheme of things, but he ain't going to be around much longer.
That's the thing. He'll be sunning himself by the pool of his Californian mansion come August, and his kids will have already been enrolled at nearby schools for the new term, which is probably the real reason we are having an election in early July rather than late November. :-X
See post #15
You didn't think about the timing of the election so he could get his kids in new schools at the start of the new term though did you? ??? :)
You're right, apologies :P
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I reckon that if by some miracle he did win the election, he would probably stand down shortly after.
He has ticked that box and it will be time for the next thing, which will be much more lucrative whatever it is.
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I reckon that if by some miracle he did win the election, he would probably stand down shortly after.
He has ticked that box and it will be time for the next thing, which will be much more lucrative whatever it is.
Win or lose, the knives will be out the day after the election.
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He won't win.
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Apparently a recent survey said that around 50% of British young people have no or little knowledge of D-Day. :-\
I guess history lessons are all about the trans Atlantic slave trade and the bad bits of our colonial past these days. :-X ::)
I raised a glass to the memory of the occasion which led to a couple of blank looks, although when I reminded them of the significance of the date, they did at least have some idea of what happened.