VE Day

[blue matt]

Thanks you to all past and present service personnel

Anyone do anything to celebrate ? ?

we have afternoon tea in the garden, a few sandwiches cut into triangles ( like posh people do ) and cheese scones and then plain / cheery scones with jam and cream ( it was something that a mate of mine did to celebrate when he came down to stay with us about 10 years ago, he is still serving, now a staff Sargent and still does it )

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: VE Day

Thanks you to all past and present service personnel

Anyone do anything to celebrate ? ?

we have afternoon tea in the garden, a few sandwiches cut into triangles ( like posh people do ) and cheese scones and then plain / cheery scones with jam and cream ( it was something that a mate of mine did to celebrate when he came down to stay with us about 10 years ago, he is still serving, now a staff Sargent and still does it )

Is it something to celebrate still? Given all the events in Ukraine, perhaps we should all, around the world, instead of celebrating our little war wins, be reflecting on all those killed in the pursuit of war and be pushing for world peace.

[Pilkers]

Re: VE Day

Thanks you to all past and present service personnel

Anyone do anything to celebrate ? ?

we have afternoon tea in the garden, a few sandwiches cut into triangles ( like posh people do ) and cheese scones and then plain / cheery scones with jam and cream ( it was something that a mate of mine did to celebrate when he came down to stay with us about 10 years ago, he is still serving, now a staff Sargent and still does it )

just Reading an article about a few 80 something Cypriots still trying to sue the UK after being tortured and having pals murdered by the UK military when they were juveniles in the 1950's... Enjoy your jam scones thou.

[blue matt]

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just Reading an article about a few 80 something Cypriots still trying to sue the UK after being tortured and having pals murdered by the UK military when they were juveniles in the 1950's... Enjoy your jam scones thou.

Jam and cream Scones, while raising a cuppa to the past and present service personnel but yea we did thanks

[RichardM]

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Maybe "commemorate" would be better than "celebrate".
We certainly shouldn't forget how evil the Nazis were and the sacrifices made to stop them, but we must also realise that there has been almost continual war, somewhere in the world ever since then.

[blue matt]

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Maybe "commemorate" would be better than "celebrate".
We certainly shouldn't forget how evil the Nazis were and the sacrifices made to stop them, but we must also realise that there has been almost continual war, somewhere in the world ever since then.

yea, we didnt really whoop and holler about it, "commemorate" seems a fair enough word, shouldn't upset folk then I guess

we mark VE Day ( with afternoon tea ) and remembrance Sunday ( by going to a service )

[Pilkers]

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Jam and cream Scones, while raising a cuppa to the past and present service personnel but yea we did thanks

I hope Wales soon gains it's independence then, I'd gladly raise a cuppa for our servicemen, ones who's allegiances lie here and would never have carried thatcher's coffin or called their own whingers.

[William Treseder]

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Is it something to celebrate still? Given all the events in Ukraine, perhaps we should all, around the world, instead of celebrating our little war wins, be reflecting on all those killed in the pursuit of war and be pushing for world peace.

Can you explain how we push for world peace, when you get evil crackpots like Hitler and Putin running riot?
Do we all send them strongly worded letters and emails ?
You do realise that a huge majority of people all over the world are peace loving folk, but as in all walks of life, the fate of many, is guided by the hands of few.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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We should all be grateful to the sacrifices that men and women have made for us

But like the clap the nhs bollocks its all bullshit really

More people will be pouncing around for the Queen than collecting money to help injured soldiers or build a new hospital

It's all union jack bollocks

[splott parker]

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The older I get the more I despise the Union Jack waving, forelock tugging, God save the Queen type merchants. Worked out well the Poland away fixture clashing with the cringeworthy jubilee ‘celebrations’, no better time to be out of the country.

[Pearcey3]

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The older I get the more I despise the Union Jack waving, forelock tugging, God save the Queen type merchants. Worked out well the Poland away fixture clashing with the cringeworthy jubilee ‘celebrations’, no better time to be out of the country.

+1

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Re: VE Day

We should all be grateful to the sacrifices that men and women have made for us

But like the clap the nhs bollocks its all bullshit really

More people will be pouncing around for the Queen than collecting money to help injured soldiers or build a new hospital

It's all union jack bollocks

I know what you're getting at, but it's difficult to understand from the relative comfort of 2022 what it felt when the war was over. Just leave it be, and save an hour or so for Remembrance Sunday/11th November.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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I know what you're getting at, but it's difficult to understand from the relative comfort of 2022 what it felt when the war was over. Just leave it be, and save an hour or so for Remembrance Sunday/11th November.

I would quite like November 11th to be a national holiday of remembrance and scrap things like VE day etc.

[splott parker]

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My old man did the whole WW2 thing, Dunkirk escape then shipped off to Burma for about four years with Viscount Slim’s forgotten army. He didn’t speak a lot about his experiences and certainly didn’t ‘celebrate’ any anniversaries, indeed one of the only times he mentioned the war was to pooh pooh VE Day, saying it meant bugger all to him as the war he was fighting was still raging.

He never wore a poppy, he didn’t really want to commemorate the worst years of his life. My mother reckoned she used to get some stick when working in Curran’s at the time the days after a raid, while others were gloating over dead German airmen who’d been shot down, she’d often say that it was some poor mother’s son.

War is a dreadful business and parading up and down gloating is not for me, a tragedy for the ‘everyday’ person on both sides.

All my opinion mind, an opinion forged by my Mam & Dad.