Lest we forget...
It's a good point - 'our generation' experienced The Falklands campaign so perhaps we have a better grasp - not on the same scale but the horror was there in spadeloads, despite the media doing the jingoistic 'lets stuff it up the Argies' stuff.In her speech yesterday, Lizzie called those who fought and who died for freedom "The Resilient Generation".... and rightly so.
Such a shame that the current self obsessed Snowflake Generation treats that hard won freedom with such casual indifference.
Peace and freedom come at a price and so many paid the ultimate sacrifice to achieve it. The very least we can do is show due respect for that gift.
It's a good point - 'our generation' experienced The Falklands campaign so perhaps we have a better grasp - not on the same scale but the horror was there in spadeloads, despite the media doing the jingoistic 'lets stuff it up the Argies' stuff.
That is why I said 'not on the same scale'. I am sure anyone of age remembers the horror of The Sheffield amongst other things.I can safely say that the Falklands landings was a far less bloody affair than the beach landings at Normandy.
We never faced an opposed landing like they did and I can't even begin to imagine what that would have been like. Tossed around in a landing craft for what would seem like an eternity, hearing and then feeling the gun fire from the beach defences. The sensation that it felt like every weapon is firing at you. Down goes the ramp and then the carnage. It's impossible to imagine the guts that it took to advance under fire up the beaches and cliffs. Everything must have screamed "don't head that way", yet despite what they saw around them, forward they went. The phrase "into the jaws of death" couldn't be more apt.
Casual indolence fits as well Cougar..In her speech yesterday, Lizzie called those who fought and who died for freedom "The Resilient Generation".... and rightly so.
Such a shame that the current self obsessed Snowflake Generation treats that hard won freedom with such casual indifference.
Peace and freedom come at a price and so many paid the ultimate sacrifice to achieve it. The very least we can do is show due respect for that gift.
Casual indolence fits as well Cougar..
As for freedom .... Over the past 10 years or so that has been eroded to the point that the UK has been mentioned on another countries news as: 'The UK Police State' and to be honest I do not think they were far wrong..
Often here the term nanny state, but often what is being referred to works equally well being described as police state .. think about it
I know what you mean. Sometimes it seems like they fought and died only to replace one form of Nazi regime for another.
Then we're reminded of what the real Nazis were like (see Squags post on the village of Oradour) and it puts it into some sort of perspective.
None the less.... we could do with the spirit of that generation now.
What is just as sad is how such terrible events are still very much remembered by many German people, leaving scars of memory even younger generations cannot leave behind
I will never forget to the day I die a young German couple, here for the Bash on their bikes, sitting in my living room crying openly one night..
I asked what was wrong...
The people are so warm and welcoming. How can you possibly forgive what happened ?
I replied that in many cases we have not forgiven, will never forget, but have moved to another point in history, hopefully without people like the fanatics who wore the SS badges.
That was about 16 - 17 years ago
And once again I look at news items and realise the world is gripped my fanatical, dangerous people..
This time hiding behind a facade of normality and claiming they do what they do in the name of Allah
I doubt the human race will ever be free of such people, and is the reason I have, as the years have gone by, become an atheist
If there was / is a god such people as Adolf Diekmann would surely never exist
Never forget..................................