im appalled that you dont know that, thats why i asked
agewise, it seems to be going out of fashion to actually care about these things, so i was assuming your on the young side
We will remember them.
sadly, i dont think we will
next year is last official ceremony for D-Day landings, and with 90 years of WW1 this year , i think in 20 years people wont even remember it happened :\
but we certainly shouldn't forget that if it wasn't for their gallantry and sacrifice, we'd all be speaking German and under some form of communist regime.
I often drink in the local working mens club, most of which are affilated with ex servicemans clubs and the likes, and as a result I get to mingle with a lot of the very people who's friends and allies we strive to remember. They might be a load of old codgers every other day of the year to the average joe on the street, but we certainly shouldn't forget that if it wasn't for their gallantry and sacrifice, we'd all be speaking German and under some form of communist regime.
Not to belittle the efforts of our veterans and politicians, but 'speaking German' is something often mentioned which is completely untrue. Hitler had no viable plans to invade Britain, it would have been practically impossible.
Sure, in the early 1940s.
However, if he'd actually got a couple of miles further into Moscow though and took it and the USSR had surrendered then he'd have effectively won the war in Europe and could have taken his own sweet time about when to invade Britain.
Of course the US nukes in 1945 could still have turned the war again.