I'm Garn Darn The Pub.

To have a couple of beers and think about all the poor buggers who never made it off the beach 76 years ago today.

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cheers!
we did that as well, only at home LOL

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I'm doing it again today, getting wound up at work and need to relax.

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My Hubby used to every day when he was at work, too.come home stressed out.

now we're both retired and relaxed but we still have a drink every day!
Cos we can

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Dunkirk or Normandy? One of my Uncles was captured at Dunkirk,another was too busy in the Med on air sea rescue/covert ops? to have been at Normandy. But fear not my father was nice and sound in Rhodesia and never saw active service. Odd how he won WW2 -he was ill in the head

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Dosn't matter which one, they all deserve a mention.

thats sad about your Dad.

I had an Uncle who was captured and worked on the Burmese railway. He was a broken man when he got home, and sadly didn't survive much after.

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Yesterday was the anniversary of D Day.

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There are very few remaining now who remember their treatment by the Japanese. I used to know a couple of chaps who thought nuking them was not enough.

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Beds and Herts were captured at Singapore, had only just got there.

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I used to confuse Japanese students of English who thought they were perfect with a bit of Aussie slang. "It's bloody hot, mate. I'm goan down to the rubbity (rubbity dub = pub) for a coldy." Worked every time.