Lest we forget . 80 years today.

[V8Druid]

Bigger threat right now as we all know is the army within....terrorists nutjobs. I think if we ever knew truly how often M15 etc stop such stuff wed crap it a lot more. Regularly we get house raids up here "terrorist activity" hardly hits the news now

Whilst we moaning about generations...what about the older fools who have screwed us over a barrel with unchecked immigration etc...last time I checked house of lord fekkers were all nursing home age...

totally agree ... you forgot the immi army, getting imported in their droves - all young, fit, fighting age men, with fanatical religion indoctrinated backgrounds ..

the 'Lords' is a 'kin joke - unelected privileged pr*cks with far too much say and no idea of 'the real world' - only there for themselves and 'the establishment' that put them there ... should be gone - freeloaders the lot of 'em

 

[6feetdown]

I would fight for the country but not for the politicians or the royals.

It would have be an immediate threat as there are too many profit from wars who are quite happy to stir the pot and encourage them then rake in our money that takes generations to pay back.

Until 1 of our so called leaders grows a set of balls or tit's they can kiss my arse, I have no time for them

 

[Bri963]

In real terms though my generation fought in Afghanistan and Iraq stepped up to the mark served and died.

You older lot spouting about how great your generation is and how bad the following ones are had what the falklands recapture operation and deployment to Northern Ireland and Germany with nato?

I bet your previous generation sat there bemoaning you lot, no males sit there and are like oh there as good as us because we all suffer from fragile masculinity and wont to believe we’re the peak of maleness.

we wont really know until it happens

I don’t rate one generation over another, Giles. There’s twats in every new batch. You do seem to like lumping people together and generalising.

 

[topkit]

My friends father was a marine and bought the troops in on the landing craft he never told his son much about it but he would has seen men drowning and men being gunned down before they got onto the beaches every one of those men are absolute hero's and should never be forgotten, We should also remember those that died in the run up to D Day on Slapton sands in Devon where a practice took place and was intercepted by German S boats. There is a memorial down there just give yourself a little time if you are down that way and pay your respects.
I don't think we can compare Falklands,Iraq, Afghanistan etc to what happened in 1939-45 they were on different scales, War is War I know, my mate was a marine and went to the Falklands and to this day has never spoken about it, But WW2 and what went was much different after all we were bombed most nights. All we can do now is visit museums or watch programmes like World at War to imagine what our forces were up against.
RIP all those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in saving our country and helped in ending the war.

 

[V8Druid]

my father was in the para.s .. did 30 odd drops ... hardly ever spoke much about it, other than his time after the end of the war when his unit was deployed to India for 2 years (no idea why?) ... told a few 'light' stories about those times, but never before that

 

[Bri963]

my father was in the para.s .. did 30 odd drops ... hardly ever spoke much about it, other than his time after the end of the war when his unit was deployed to India for 2 years (no idea why?) ... told a few 'light' stories about those times, but never before that

Think I must have worked with the only two WW2 vets who did want to talk about it. One was a navy mechanic, the other a driver in the marines. Also had an uncle who enlisted before VE day but didn’t see action until he was parachuted into Haifa to join the force overseeing the British withdrawal and handover to the UN protectorate. He was happy to talk about the yank pilot putting the drop light on a few miles off course and dropping them on the slopes of Mount Carmel.

 

[bobthebuilder]

had an uncle who was a pow at colditz and was involved in the glider effort ,we only found out when my grandfather paased away and we found evidence of their service ,never said a word ,wish i knew what i know now and was old enough to ask ,

 

[pettsy]

Grandad was in the Royal engineers. I believe he drove a landing craft on d-day. Dad says he never talked about the war much other than to say he didn’t like the Americans he was near and how they treated the women and girls (he had 4 daughters at home) so would try and get them out of the way.