| Ver Sur Mer 09:10 - Jun 6 with 1715 views | Lorax |
78 years on and they are at the D Day Memorial close to Gold beach. Watching Harry Billinge when he sees it for the first time, when he visited it brings tears to my eyes. You can see what it meant to him.
My grandfather landed at Gold (I believe) with 47 Commando, he survived the war. One day I will go to that monument, I need to.
Having this today, with what is going on in Ukraine, talking about the horrors of war and the pointless loss of life, it seems very relevant to me.
RIP Harry. |  | | |  |
| Ver Sur Mer on 11:12 - Jun 6 with 1679 views | Boundy |
For many , the nearest they've ever been to a war is a game on a console , which is as it should be . But when you read some of the crass comments on others threads about the current situation in Ukraine, as if it is just a game you do have to question their morality and lack of empathy.
We as a country should show a debt of gratitude to those who fought and died but we don't except those whose families were directly affected and dismiss such events as the D day landings as something happened some where, sometime ago . This country is not nor ever has been perfect but that can be said of the rest of the world so why not recognise the good rather than focus on the bad all the time , and embrace what we have given to the world which is rather more than what we've taken IMO | |
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| Ver Sur Mer on 08:54 - Jun 7 with 1623 views | onehunglow |
| Ver Sur Mer on 11:12 - Jun 6 by Boundy |
For many , the nearest they've ever been to a war is a game on a console , which is as it should be . But when you read some of the crass comments on others threads about the current situation in Ukraine, as if it is just a game you do have to question their morality and lack of empathy.
We as a country should show a debt of gratitude to those who fought and died but we don't except those whose families were directly affected and dismiss such events as the D day landings as something happened some where, sometime ago . This country is not nor ever has been perfect but that can be said of the rest of the world so why not recognise the good rather than focus on the bad all the time , and embrace what we have given to the world which is rather more than what we've taken IMO |
This post should be copied and printed and made a sticky or whatever they do on here to make it stick in the memory. | |
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| Ver Sur Mer on 09:44 - Jun 7 with 1613 views | Lorax |
| Ver Sur Mer on 08:54 - Jun 7 by onehunglow |
This post should be copied and printed and made a sticky or whatever they do on here to make it stick in the memory. |
OHL, the more I learned about my grandad, the more I idolised him. A postman in Swansea who went to war, became a Royal Marine Commando, survived Tobruk, El Alamein and D Day who came home and refused to talk about what he did because he was ashamed of all the killing, of things he'd done even though they had to be done. He came home, returned to his job and go on with life.
I wish I'd known him better. | | | |
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