V E Day anniversary:

[merehazle]

Wonderful. And the Church bells are to ring out across the UK.

A debt for our freedom freely given by so many so long ago, that can never be repaid. We their children shall remember their selflessness.

Our Vera Lynn, is 98 - years old now.    Any memories, or thoughts? 

[bill-xxx]

I have one. As a very young child my mother stood me in front of a wireless set and said I must listen to it and never forget it. I learned much later that I was listening to the VE celebratiions from London. I have never forgotten it and never will.

[dark_castle1]

For those brave men and women who in some cases gave everything and those that came home we salute you.

[merehazle]

Yes. We will remember them.  (well some will ).

 Hazle, went with mum, to Westminster Abbey, to hear the bells. They rung throughout the city for 70 minutes.

 People were shaking hands, and hugging. Shops were offering free tea, and coffee, cakes , and sandwiches.

 Anyway.  Do, ju, no, wot?   It  inspired me to rite this lik wot I rote:

 Hear the bells - Silver bells!

 What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

 How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,

 In the icy air of night!

 While the stars that oversprinkle

 All the heavens, seem to twinkle

 With a crystalline delight,

 Keeping time, time, time,

 In a sort of Runic rhyme,

 To the tintinnabulation that so-musically wells

 From the bells, bells, bells,

 Bells, bells, bells --

 From the jingling and tinkling of the bells. 

 Well...I will be honest and admit I only wrote it after I see what someone else had wrote.   

[ravendays]

Unfortunately it is our glorious leaders who appear to forget what these occasions actually represent whilst allowing guests to trounce over values our ancestors died to uphold.  You know, trivial things like freedom of speech, democracy and justice.