Please don't forget its VE day today!

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
 
They didn't like it up 'em!

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Found a quite corner of the building to have a minute's silence in honour of the grandfather I never met as he and 62 of his shipmates where killed on the 23rd of October 1942 when their ship HMS Phoebe was torpedoed off the coast of West Africa.
 
The right not to be gassed to death because you belong to a persecuted group? Next stupid question!

The right for the posting of foolish comments on internet forums without being vistied by a group of friendly blokes in black leather coats to congratulate you on your stunning and inciteful observation.

We had those rights in the UK (I take the second to be the right to free speech) prior to WW2.

All I'm saying is that WW2 was a disaster for this country, and it was a war we certainly didn't "win". Yes we should remember the fallen - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month is set aside for that. VE day is more celebratory and I don't really see the point of celebrating.
 
Are we in Germany?

So just to be clear, VE day isn't about celebrating the end of the war, otherwise they'd celebrate it in Germany too. It's about celebrating the end of the war and the UK being a putative winner, only no-one can tell me what we won? Only what we lost (men, money, influence).
 
So just to be clear, VE day isn't about celebrating the end of the war, otherwise they'd celebrate it in Germany too. It's about celebrating the end of the war and the UK being a putative winner, only no-one can tell me what we won? Only what we lost (men, money, influence).
You just seem to be arguing for the sake of arguing. How can the ending of a war be anything other than a good thing?

Have we got any German members that can tell us how they feel about the celebration of the day the war ended?
 
When so many came back from an appalling war and never spoke of their experiences. Where the word hero actually meant something. I only found out my granddad had a couple of medals for bravery, which he never spoke of, on his death.

A day that should never be forgotten.

Same here, my grandfather never spoke about it simply stating he was in the Navy. It was only after he died and I was looking through the old photo albums that I found this:




Yes, he was in the Navy, he just never told us he was a Marine at the Normandy landings...
 
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