Veterans 70th D-Day anniversary

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Veterans 70th D-Day anniversary

Postby mjay » Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:21 am

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Re: Veterans 70th D-Day anniversary Celebrations

Postby snoopysue » Thu Jun 05, 2014 1:56 pm

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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Re: Veterans 70th D-Day anniversary

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Re: Veterans 70th D-Day anniversary

Postby sparkstopper » Thu Jun 05, 2014 4:33 pm

Surely it means: Celebrating the lives of those that were K.I.A.
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Re: Veterans 70th D-Day anniversary

Postby dudleytaylor » Fri Jun 06, 2014 9:16 am

Does it matter what it is called so long has we remember ?
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Re: Veterans 70th D-Day anniversary

Postby snoopysue » Fri Jun 06, 2014 6:11 pm

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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Re: Veterans 70th D-Day anniversary

Postby snoopysue » Fri Jun 06, 2014 6:12 pm

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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Re: Veterans 70th D-Day anniversary

Postby mallosa » Fri Jun 06, 2014 7:23 pm

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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Re: Veterans 70th D-Day anniversary

Postby snoopysue » Fri Jun 06, 2014 8:25 pm

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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Re: Veterans 70th D-Day anniversary

Postby apowell » Sat Jun 07, 2014 9:09 am

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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