VE Day ?
- Thread starter Fish
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Just a couple of tunes to get the morning Juices flowing ?
MegaSteve
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Intend to take a walk to the local memorial... Mixed emotions as would like to see plenty of others seeing fit to do so but at the same time want there to be sufficient space to distance...
rulefan
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The residents of my cul-de-sac will be sitting at our gates having a party
SteveW86
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Same with ours, bbq our in the front garden for a day with the neighbours
PhilTheFragger
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Red Arrows flying over Aylesbury about 10.15
Will offer a salute and raise a glass ????
Will offer a salute and raise a glass ????
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As with Armistice Day I will have a personal moment to remember parents, uncles, aunts, in-laws and family friends who all served throughout and, sadly, are all now departed.
They were part of a very special generation.
They were part of a very special generation.
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No 'Flower of Scotland' or other nationalistic tunes? Or was the victory all down to the English?
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We have a street party....well a sit in the road party appropriately distanced...
KenL
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No 'Flower of Scotland' or other nationalistic tunes? Or was the victory all down to the English?
Flower of Scotland Scotland wasn't even written then.
Despite being a Scot, God Save the Queen will do for me.
Doon frae Troon
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No 'Flower of Scotland' or other nationalistic tunes? Or was the victory all down to the English?
https://bagpipemusic.com/product/black-bear/
There you go Black Bear ...return to barracks.
Fastest march in the UK army as the troops wanted to get to the bar before it shuts.
Quite fitting for VE day
Today of all days we should remember that our ancestors faced bombs, machine guns, mines and shells to save lives. They spent years away from home in battle situations to save lives. They faced uncertainty, fear and horror every day for over 5 years to save lives.
We’ve been asked to stay home and watch TV, to not have a social life for a while and to stay 2 metres apart to save lives, and people are complaining about losing their freedom. Really?!?! Not really a sacrifice when you think about it.
They put their lives at risk so they could save many more. We’re being asked NOT to put our lives at risk to save many more.
Take the time to sit and think of the sacrifices they made so we have the lives we do.
So as we sit safe at home, don’t be be complaining of the hardship and the suffering of watching repeats, and queueing at the supermarket that has all the food you want, be thankful that while you’re in your home you won’t be bombed, and that you’re safe on your sofa, not being shelled in a trench or machine gunned on a beach.
We’ve been asked to stay home and watch TV, to not have a social life for a while and to stay 2 metres apart to save lives, and people are complaining about losing their freedom. Really?!?! Not really a sacrifice when you think about it.
They put their lives at risk so they could save many more. We’re being asked NOT to put our lives at risk to save many more.
Take the time to sit and think of the sacrifices they made so we have the lives we do.
So as we sit safe at home, don’t be be complaining of the hardship and the suffering of watching repeats, and queueing at the supermarket that has all the food you want, be thankful that while you’re in your home you won’t be bombed, and that you’re safe on your sofa, not being shelled in a trench or machine gunned on a beach.
Fade and Die
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No 'Flower of Scotland' or other nationalistic tunes? Or was the victory all down to the English?
Post them yourself if it bothers you. All Fish has done has put up some “patriotic” stirring songs. ?? ?????? Well done Fish.?
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PaulS
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It’s Victory In Europe Day - the “patriotic” was slanted towards English.
Can see why people would scratch their head a little
SwingsitlikeHogan
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FOR I WILL GIVE YOU THE MORNING STAR
In the sunset of an age and an epoch we may write that for epitaph of the men who were of it. They went quiet and brave from the lands they loved, though seldom of that love might they speak, it was not in them to tell in words of the earth that moved and lived and abided, their life and enduring love. And who knows at the last what memories of it were with them, the springs and the winters of this land and all the sounds and scents of it that had once been theirs, deep, and a passion of their blood and spirit, those four who died in France?
(Lewis Grassic Gibbon Sunset Song)
In the sunset of an age and an epoch we may write that for epitaph of the men who were of it. They went quiet and brave from the lands they loved, though seldom of that love might they speak, it was not in them to tell in words of the earth that moved and lived and abided, their life and enduring love. And who knows at the last what memories of it were with them, the springs and the winters of this land and all the sounds and scents of it that had once been theirs, deep, and a passion of their blood and spirit, those four who died in France?
(Lewis Grassic Gibbon Sunset Song)
jim8flog
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No 'Flower of Scotland' or other nationalistic tunes? Or was the victory all down to the English?
It is funny I was going to be the organiser of an event at our club today. I was thinking about what flags to buy and it would have been a very long list to remember all the nations that were responsible for the victory in the end I settled for just the Union and the current American flags.
User20205
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Whilst I agree with the sentiment, it’s a real false equivalence on many levels to compare the struggle of a citizen army 75 years ago to any current situation. Don’t want to derail the thread, happy to discuss this in another
Val
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No 'Flower of Scotland' or other nationalistic tunes? Or was the victory all down to the English?
Don't be an arse, today is not the day for it
