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VE DAY.

Amazing to see so many veterans there at the celebrations (last for many of them for a big anniversary very sadly) - treated myself to a doner kebab tonight (very rare occasion) - Not too bad for me as only had to count the carbs (35g) for the pitta bread - they should have combined the two May bank holidays into today and tomorrow so it could have been celebrated properly I think (not very well thought out IMO)
 
Nice to pay our respects to veterans and the families who sacrificed so much.
We were lucky enough to see the BBMF flypast at Woodhall Spa, which is a short drive away.
 
mashedupmatt said:
Amazing to see so many veterans there at the celebrations (last for many of them for a big anniversary very sadly) - treated myself to a doner kebab tonight (very rare occasion) - Not too bad for me as only had to count the carbs (35g) for the pitta bread - they should have combined the two May bank holidays into today and tomorrow so it could have been celebrated properly I think (not very well thought out IMO)
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An extra Bank Holiday would have been better and highlighted the day more.
 
I found a newspaper cutting in my late Dads photos a few days ago with a photo of his street on VE Day.

I found him aged 13 sitting at a table with his brother & lots of other children. His Mum, my Grandma is standing up in her best dress smiling, she was diagnosed type 1 in the 1920’s not many years after insulin was discovered, I wonder how she managed then compared to my tech of today.

It made me really emotional thinking what their lives were like and the very obvious lack of men in the photo. My 93 year old Mum has been so emotional the last few days reliving it, it is so interesting to hear the impact it had on peoples lives.
 
Ive not watched any of it on the telly.....i know too much about the subject anyway.....but i did things my own way

On my daily walk round the cemetary i stopped at every war grave i could find and said thankyou.......took me 4 times as long to walk round as it usually does

Brave men and women.....wont see thier like again
 
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Bill Hammand, aged 99, lit the beacon after the VE Day Commemoration
Service held in the evening on Long Melford Green. In 1944 Bill drove
landing craft at Sword Beach. Who knows what passed through his mind
as he watched the flames climb up the rope to the basket. A moment I will
never forget.
 
We went to a VE Celebration night by a local brass band at the Platform in sunny Morecambe, followed the beacon lighting on the Stone Jetty. It was very well attended and we weren't the youngest there.
 
Bedford 1 said:
Let’s hope that even after all the veterans have passed away, the country and the world continues to remember them and honour their memory.
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Have a job to forget where we live - Bedworth, the town that never forgets! - though we were in rural Lincolnshire on a caravan etc rally last Thursday so saw nowt of the local celebrations.
 
trophywench said:
Have a job to forget where we live - Bedworth, the town that never forgets! - though we were in rural Lincolnshire on a caravan etc rally last Thursday so saw nowt of the local celebrations.
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Lots of commemoration in our area but we are surrounded by RAF and former RAF stations in this part of lincolnshire.
My aunt was born in Bedworth. She met my uncle and they got married in Coventry.
 
I was disappointed that Trump And Starmer chose VE Day for a photo opportunity of their (IMHO nothing special) trade deal. Both should have been paying tribute to the fallen in their own countries or an appropriate war cemetery.
 
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