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Veterans 70th D-Day anniversary

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... l?ITO=1490
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No offence, but shouldn't that be "commemorations" rather than "celebrations".
War is a serious thing, it should be remembered but never celebrated. (The only exception is the end of a war, and then not the winning of it, but just the end).
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I just copied link

Here's another
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... annel.html
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Surely it means: Celebrating the lives of those that were K.I.A.
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Does it matter what it is called so long has we remember ?
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sparkstopper wrote:Surely it means: Celebrating the lives of those that were K.I.A.


Celebrating their lives is okay, but celebrating war is not okay.
I'm sure most people would agree that we wouldn't celebrate dropping the bombs on Japan.
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dudleytaylor wrote:Does it matter what it is called so long has we remember ?


It's about the way we remember, but I do agree remembering is important.
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Been watching all day on BBC, so touching and what wonderful coverage!
So much respect was shown to the veterans and I was pleased to see so many children involved.
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mallosa wrote:Been watching all day on BBC, so touching and what wonderful coverage!
So much respect was shown to the veterans and I was pleased to see so many children involved.


Definately a good idea to get the kids involved.
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Hi everyone,

Truly moving seeing and hearing the veterans paying their respects to fallen comrades.

Amazing generation:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/worl ... teran.html

http://news.sky.com/story/1276981/d-day ... while-awol

http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/story/ ... rom-plane/

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/ ... andy-video

This is the link I wrote some time ago about D-Day which sumed up the horrors faced that day:

viewtopic.php?f=71&t=1920

God bless them all.

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