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I don’t think we and future generations should ever forget the sacrifices made, not only on d,day, but throughout the entire conflict, yes the world had experienced the horrors of the First World War, but this conflict brought the war to civilians through the blitz, d,day was the first step to free Europe from nazi tyranny, I’m glad I never had to run up the beaches in 1944 , but many brave young men did, and a lot would never return
We should never forget them...

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Hear, hear Primus. Totally agree.

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I disagree . It's OVER.

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Yes thankfully it is
So let’s forget the bombings, of our cities
The thousands that never came home or were affected badly both physically and mentally,if they did , those that were imprisoned in Far East camps and treated brutally, the six million Jews killed in concentration camps,
Let’s consign it to history, completely forget all about it


Then we won’t ever make the same mistakes again

Will we?

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Important for a few years to a few people...really?

Not every day do 1000's die for the freedom of others.

I get upset if somebody forgets my birthday.

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Comerating anything about past wars will not make one iota of difference to what happens in the future especially when it's the Americans and Russians who should be leading the field. It was them that defeated the Axis powers, not the Brits.

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The defeat of the Axis powers principally by the Americans once having been dragged into the war by Pearl Harbour and the Russians who sacrificed MILLIONS before operation Barbarossa was squashed once Ogólna Zima (General Winter) kicked in tends to be overlooked by Brits even though having been driven into the sea and allowed to escape.

I KNOW this is something that probably most of you guys don't like to be reminded of or even believe but nonetheless that's reality.

There's a number of very good factual books that have been published in Russia as well as Germany that puts a very different light on things. One of a few in English is "We DIDN'T win the war! by Peter Hitchens that sets out the non-Jingoistic story.

Many very brave men engaged in awful conflict - of that there is no doubt.

But on BOTH sides.

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Is someone disputing the loss on both sides? No.

What we are doing is paying respect and saying "Thank you" to our own.

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It's over though. It's not as if they'll hear it and since so many young people don't know and don't even care who the protagonists were in WW2 what's the point?

Moreover lets never forget who was to blame for WW2. HINT - It wasn't the Germans. They certainly weren't the root cause nor did they declare war on Britain. It was the Brits who declared war on Germany.

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Do you believe the Earth is flat?
Than Princess Di was murdered and mankind didn't go to the moon?