Victory in Europe Day.

[Gnasher]

How brave were those men and women who fought and lived through that? What a generation!

 

Then they came home and denounced war and hatred and built good affordable housing for our children and a national health service for the old and young if they fell iill.

 

Our working class ancestors have made this country great, many lost their lives and the ones who didnt came home and did the name of their fallen friends proud.

 

We shall remember them.

[Gnasher]

The whole world is grateful for what our people did, lets not let Murdoch, the Tory's and the media take that away from us, don't let them take it away from them.

 

its ours, that's our victory and victories don't come bigger than that.

[KopOut]

Also my Mum's birthday. Imagine having a birthday on the day the war ended? She's 87 now.

 

Her and my dad have their wedding anniversary on 6th June. D-Day.

 

We must never forget the carnage, the heroism, the blood and brutality or the tiny moments of mercy.

 

I watched 'The Pianist' the other night. Fuck. German invasion of Poland. True Story apparently. Adrian Brody is superb. Just one story from a world in flames.

 

RIP all those who served, died , survived, witnessed.

 

I'm leaning toward Atheism these days, but my humanity has never been more real, or my empathy more rewarding.

 

Shit happens but we should never just let it.

 

Oh yeah, one more thing:

 

Lets stop the genocide in west papua.

[Kevin D]

I hoped we'd get beat.

[ratcatcher]

Remmember them all.

[JagSquared]

I genuinely struggle to understand what it must have been like to live in that time. The sacrifice all made, not just in this country is simply staggering.

[stringvest]

I danced all night.

[Liverpool lad]

This was before the days of low cost airlines and that 

 

I think kids today don't realise how big Europe is and the sacrifices they made

 

God bless them

[Anny Road]

I mean this with no disrespect to those brave individuals who sacrificed their lives for our freedom during WW2 which was a completely justified and unavoidable conflict.

But what does piss me off , especially watching similar ceremonies for WW1, is the sight of politicians and top generals dressed in all their finery laying wreathes and saluting and bowing heads to the cenotaph and then going back into the foreign office and sending young lads off to Iraq and Afghanistan. If they truly remembered the dead they would stop sending our lads off on unjustified foreign campaigns to add to the sacrifice

[Bjornebye]

Brave brave men. Despite their sacrifices, no lessons have been learnt. The only difference between then and now is that then wars were fought against evil. Now they are fought for profit. 

[Section_31]

Lots of good came out of it on the home front, such as greater equality, a welfare state and the NHS. Oh wait.

[VladimirIlyich]

I mean this with no disrespect to those brave individuals who sacrificed their lives for our freedom during WW2 which was a completely justified and unavoidable conflict.

But what does piss me off , especially watching similar ceremonies for WW1, is the sight of politicians and top generals dressed in all their finery laying wreathes and saluting and bowing heads to the cenotaph and then going back into the foreign office and sending young lads off to Iraq and Afghanistan. If they truly remembered the dead they would stop sending our lads off on unjustified foreign campaigns to add to the sacrifice

They are now just private armies who save the rich the cost of hiring merecenaries to protect their oil and mineral interests. Politicians dont give a fuck because they are just told what to do and simply do it.