Remembance service

[Pampam]

Was moved by the rememberance service on sunday , when those military bands start to play i just love it ,husband loves nimrod ,and what moves me to tears is "its a long way to tipperary" so many tales of loss ,and bravery: have just read a book about Burma, am getting more interested in the past the older i get is this an ageing process i wonder? Pp:)

[George Collings]

The D Day vet. aged 15 and in the Merchant Navy who sung "The shores of Normandy " so well, Wonderfull.

 

My father a Burma Star man attended every year until he died.On one visit as the BS Vets were getting a bus home from the Whitehall parade they crossed paths with CND demonstrators. As the Vets were already en route to round two in Malaya and then probably Japan when the Atomic Bombs ended the war and saved an enormous loss of life including thiers the meeting of the groups was to say the least less than friendly.

[Archiesgrandad]

Hear hear for the guy who sang so well, as one who lived through WW 2 as a boy, did my National Service, and now have a son in the Army, I find it compelling.

Everyone who has gone into danger with the Armed Services is to us a hero, even though inside themselves I imagine that they think that they are just the little guys doing their best for us, often in difficult and frightening situations.

Please God that we will always remember them, and that there will always be a new generation to pick up the baton if ever the need should arise.

AGD

[George Collings]

In 2004 were were visiting Falaise when we met a D Day Vet. The last time he was there it was a pile of rubble and he said he wondered if all their struggles had been worth it. I replied that neither I or my the thirtyish sons had needed to go to war so thank you very much. He thought for a moment and said perhaps it was then.

 

Most WW2 vets had a tale to tell. My father was in the army. In 1943 his troopship was torpedoed by Luftwaffe squadron using guided missiles on the escorts and sunk in the Med. Over 2,000 survived. He went on to serve in Burma including the the Battle of Kohima. Two weeks later the next convoy was attacked by the same unit and sunk a troopship that went down virtually with everyone aboard. It was the worse Allied trooping loss of the war. If you want to look it up search convoy KMF25A and the ship The Marnix Van Aldegonde. It will take you on to the later convoy as well.

 

Researching a ww1 name on a local war memorial I found he was lost on submarine K4, It was not just the enemy you had to fear. Justice Sod was serving as far back as that.

 

At least by and large Joe Public remembers them, it the politicians that worry me.

[pkc]

 

I have just read 'Birdsong 'by Sebastian Faulks.

The description of the horrors of trench warfare in the first word war is the must poignant I have ever read,

Humbling.