D-day 70th anniversary.

[merehazle]

As second world war veterans, and our allies gather.  Any thoughts and memories?

We owe them so much. These totally amazing people, who achieved something enormously important and unbelievably difficult. We owe them so much.

As we often see the landings on those flat open beaches how utterly exposed these guys were as they came off the landing craft. It is simply amazing that any of them made it off the beach. And most were very sea sick.

[merehazle]

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Well thank you for that. (heh).  Still no THANK YOU to them from you and your mate? Sometimes more is revealed by what you don't say.

Now someone else have him. I wont.  zzzzzzZZZZZzzzzzzz and a wolf! your lucky you got that.

Come on England. 

[upthecreekyetagain]

I do thank all the brave soldiers, including my father who was in the Royal Engineers and was one of the first on the beach to clear mines.

However I believe he, along with many of the other brave soldiers on that day would turn in their graves at the thought that what they did that day was somehow being used to support the idea of limiting the freedom of others rather than obtaining freedom for all.

Points 7 and 8 of the German Workers Party's 25 point manifesto read:-

7. We demand that the State shall above all undertake to ensure that every citizen shall have the possibility of living decently and earning a livelihood. If it should not be possible to feed the whole population, then aliens (non-citizens) must be expelled from the Reich.

8. Any further immigration of non-Germans must be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans who have entered Germany since August 2, 1914, shall be compelled to leave the Reich immediately.

It was to end this type of thinking that my father and millions of others fought for, not to support the views of Little Englanders!