Bryan Morris wrote:
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Bryan Morris wrote:

There can't be many people left who have personal memories of VE-Day. After
the care homes crisis, their number has probably halved in the last couple
of months. Not a great way of celebrating them.



Your normal ********

In the UK there are 3.2 million people aged over 80 and 1.6 million aged
over 85

But then what would I expect from you

As I've already said, I was thinking of people who were old enough to know
what VE Day was about. That doesn't include children.

That's what you say now but your main aim of course was to talk about a
"care home crisis" for which , you doubt, you would like to point a
finger at the current government

But millions of people who were children during WW II would remember
what it was all about, who lost fathers and mothers, who had members of
their families in the armed forces, who remember VE day celebrations,
who remember being bombed or spending nights in shelters. Who were in
some cases evacuated from Continental Europe where their parents have no
known graves

Ahh the generation who just because they happened to be around in short
trousers at school at some point between 1939 and 1945 makes them the equal
of blokes in tanks in the desert or drowning in the North Atlantic and have
spent a lifetime since spouting about how “they”won the war in the
reflected glory of efforts genuinely earn’t by their parents and
grandparents , not a few of them anxious to finally have a chance to stick
one over on the Hun themselves voted for Brexit as if the UK was still in a
shooting war with Germany and the EU was all a plot to reverse what
happened in 1945.


Now that’s a political point to keep you occupied for a bit.

GH