VE Day parade 2025

bluetonium said:
Regardless of who you are and what your priorities are, I do hope that everyone in the land can take a moment to remember those who worked, fought and died for us to even have the chance to be ourselves today.

The Lancaster went straight over my head a few years back and it was one of the most brilliant moments I've ever experienced. You don't have to be a royalist, a nationalist or an anything hopefully to respect the event, and it's vitally important that current and future generations hear, see and feel the message and lessons from our past. Even more so every year, with less and less with us to actually tell us how it was, and more and more distractions to help us forget what true sacrifice and evil looks like.

I had a grandfather in the navy and another in charge of a factory. We found out a few years back that my wife's grandfather was also in the navy, and took an extended leave of absence for the birth of his first child, my mother in-law. His ship was The Hood, and he missed that fatal last journey.
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Just pressing like is not enough for this brilliant post. Thank you @bluetonium. :-)
 
bluetonium said:
Regardless of who you are and what your priorities are, I do hope that everyone in the land can take a moment to remember those who worked, fought and died for us to even have the chance to be ourselves today.

The Lancaster went straight over my head a few years back and it was one of the most brilliant moments I've ever experienced. You don't have to be a royalist, a nationalist or an anything hopefully to respect the event, and it's vitally important that current and future generations hear, see and feel the message and lessons from our past. Even more so every year, with less and less with us to actually tell us how it was, and more and more distractions to help us forget what true sacrifice and evil looks like.

I had a grandfather in the navy and another in charge of a factory. We found out a few years back that my wife's grandfather was also in the navy, and took an extended leave of absence for the birth of his first child, my mother in-law. His ship was The Hood, and he missed that fatal last journey.
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" The Mighty Hood" ,which unfortunately lasted only a few minutes in the naval clash with " The Bismarck" !!!
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
The Russians probably did as much or more than the rest of the allies put together but they don't seem to have been invited!
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Russian losses were about 27m of which about 10m were military.
Russia was the hero of the war on land in Europe, eventually defeating the Nazis on the eastern front, which gave the allies a much easier task in the west.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
The Russians probably did as much or more than the rest of the allies put together but they don't seem to have been invited!
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To be fair we were fighting on every front AND supplying the Russians via the Atlantic. The Russians only did what was expected of them when they were attacked by the country they made a pact with when they carved up Poland.

Bombing Berlin and Dresden softened the Nazi cunts underbelly and when the Nazis were on the run only then did the Russians mobilise in earnest.

In some countries in Europe they suffered the Commie cunts instead of the Nazi cunts, fuck the Russians.

Rant over as you were :)
 
My parents did their bit in the navy and the women's ATS.

They, and their kind made massive sacrifices to help ensure we maintained our freedom.

We owe them all a massive debt of gratitude. So few of them remain worldwide.

I hate how these modern lefty snowflakes have no idea and a complete lack of respect when the hardest thing in their life is the wrong coffee, expired gym membership, missed flight to somewhere or constant moaning about being addressed incorrectly.
 
Scottyboi said:
The antique roadshow VE day special was worth a watch last night too, I find it mind blowing how Europe recovered from 2 world wars and the horrors of it.
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You have to give kudos to Germany particularly for that. After the lunacy that was you know who. Anything engineered or well manufactured I always reckon is German.

I don't go abroad nowadays so can't even dislike their love of beach towels draped over sunbeds either....
 
69FACUPfinal said:
You have to give kudos to Germany particularly for that. After the lunacy that was you know who. Anything engineered or well manufactured I always reckon is German.

I don't go abroad nowadays so can't even dislike their love of beach towels draped over sunbeds either....
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I'm a big fan of the German way of life, looks like it's changed to shit these days but it was lovely.

One thing they were were grafters.
 
69FACUPfinal said:
You have to give kudos to Germany particularly for that. After the lunacy that was you know who. Anything engineered or well manufactured I always reckon is German.

I don't go abroad nowadays so can't even dislike their love of beach towels draped over sunbeds either....
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I'd take the German beach towels saga any day over the antics of pissed up Brits
 
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