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Few people sat out in the neighbourhood. We're just sat in back garden avoiding people.
Few people sat out in the neighbourhood. We're just sat in back garden avoiding people.
You were just a gun for hire though motivated by money. Today we're celebrating men that sacrificed themselves selflessly.I am ex military, if people want to put up bunting and sing a few songs to make themselves feel better, carry on.
Not for me though, it should be a commemoration of something 75 years ago, not a celebration.
You were just a gun for hire though motivated by money. Today we're celebrating men that sacrificed themselves selflessly.
I am ex military, if people want to put up bunting and sing a few songs to make themselves feel better, carry on.
Not for me though, it should be a commemoration of something 75 years ago, not a celebration.
My grandfather would say the same and he spent 25 years in the army and got an MBE out of it. He loved the army because of the career that opened up for him but it was no different than the corporate world with people trying to get a leg up the ladder as quickly as possible. He was never interested in VE day as it was something that had to be done and the memories too painful for him. In a way we look back on it too much as we are a shell of what we were. The Germans won in the end.
i thought they were ordered to go.You were just a gun for hire though motivated by money. Today we're celebrating men that sacrificed themselves selflessly.
Actually, I think that the Americans may have had a wee bit to do with rebuilding Germany, as part of their European Recovery Program - to get one over on the Russians. . . we rebuilt there country for free and modernised to get one over on the Russians . . .
Give 'em back to the Republic -you know it makes sense.Brain dead Loyalists in some area of Belfast showing their stupidity again.
Funny how it worked out,they lost a war,all of their industry and we rebuilt there country for free and modernised to get one over on the Russians.
And they are now the defacto power in Europe,well economically.
Go figure.
Had one grandad fight in North Africa and taken prisoner,escaped three or four time before finally succeeding and fighting/hiding with the partisans for the rest of the war in Italy.
My nan in her 90's to this day jokes about his other wife's in Italy and we may have Italian cousins.
My nans brother was captured by the Japanese , he survived but apparently was a ghost of what he was,died in his early forties I believe as a result of all the malnutrition, didn't talk much to anyone.
RIP to all those who were lost.
Actually, I think that the Americans may have had a wee bit to do with rebuilding Germany, as part of their European Recovery Program - to get one over on the Russians
Give 'em back to the Republic -you know it makes sense.
You may want to look up ‘reparations’
My great grandfather survived WWI but my maternal grandfather wasn't at the front in WWII as he was in a reserved occupation so was in the Home Guard instead, very Dad's Army. Had to go around patching up bombed buildings and make do, was speaking to my mother about it yesterday there was a house in her street that was hit by a bomb it remained a wreck for years.
My stepfather's father was in Burma got awarded the Burma Star spent years in a japanese POW camp survived it but had a hatred of them ever after I remember him he lived to a decent age at least. At his funeral a whole bunch of vets turned up and paraded through the village banners and all.
Germany has ever paid anywhere close to the damage it wrought around Europe and the world.
Same with Japan.
If you can give me a figure of what they actually paid? I bet we paid more back to the USA for ww2
Without question, Germany and Japan benefited from having to rebuild from the ground up, from an imposed change in their governance and from a Western desire not to repeat the financial ruin that they had inflicted on Germany after World War I.. . .
Was an interesting documentary about why we failed so bad at manufacturing after a period Basically unions not wanting automation combined with Japan and Germany having to build their industry from the ground up.
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I think that there was a perception that "punishing" Germany (or Japan) would only lead to future trouble as happened as a result of the World War I reparations.Germany has [n]ever paid anywhere close to the damage it wrought around Europe and the world.
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