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Post by bathstoke on Sept 3, 2019 12:48:11 GMT
Was on Sunday & I don’t seem to remember any threads on it 😔
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Post by AlliG on Sept 3, 2019 16:38:31 GMT
From a British perspective, it was 80 years today (11.00 am on 3rd September) that the UK declared war on Germany.
From a personal perspective, it makes me realise how quickly time passes.
As a kid the veterans were only aged 40+ and therefore there were literally millions of them around.
When I started my first job, my overall manager was a retired major who had won an MC in Italy and my line manager had started work with the Company prior to the outbreak of war, been called up, served his 6 years and then returned to his old job and one of the first clients I handled was an Arnhem veteran with a healthy dislike for pompous officialdom (or the officer class).
I remember when the BBC started producing programmes including interviews with veterans of WWI (probably in the late 1980s) when they realised that there were relatively few survivors left, first from the run up to 1914 up to the last interviews with Harry Patch.
It is quite a sobering thought that we have now reached the same situation with WWII.
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Post by redstriper on Sept 3, 2019 16:54:34 GMT
i was born on the 22nd anniversary, and my daughter was born on the 69th anniversary, and i got married on the 72nd anniversary so it is well commemorated in my family  |
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Post by AlliG on Sept 3, 2019 17:05:54 GMT
i was born on the 22nd anniversary, and my daughter was born on the 69th anniversary, and i got married on the 72nd anniversary so it is well commemorated in my family I got married on the 48th anniversary of D-Day. Fortunately D-Day was more successful!  |
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Sept 3, 2019 17:53:54 GMT
Why do we ignore the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war? It's not a separate conflict, it was the start of Axis aggression.
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Sept 3, 2019 18:00:38 GMT
Incredible and brave decision to declare war on Germany. The outcome was unknown but prospects looked bleak. But it was important to do the right thing even though it meant tough times ahead and an unknown result. The people who sacrificed the most were the working class.
Fought for freedom, independence and democracy.
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Post by bathstoke on Sept 3, 2019 19:26:54 GMT
Incredible and brave decision to declare war on Germany. The outcome was unknown but prospects looked bleak. But it was important to do the right thing even though it meant tough tomes ahead and an unknown result. The people who sacrificed the most were the working class. Fought for freedom, independence and democracy. That £@#&!n loaded! |
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Post by bathstoke on Sept 4, 2019 6:52:12 GMT
Why do we ignore the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war? It's not a separate conflict, it was the start of Axis aggression. We at least 2yrs late with that, but that could be ironic... |
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