patsylabrador Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 D-Day today. I always get goose bumps when I think about what happened on this day. Incredible, brave people. D-Daylink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 I agree, very brave people. I must admit that I feel more emotional about WW1 as we lost some family members in that war (my Gt Granddad being one) but I respect and admire anyone who fights for this country, then or now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadietoo Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 We took my Dad to see the landing beaches a few years ago. He was nine when war broke out and the eldest boy, and his dad was reserved occupation, so spent his war in the UK. Dad used to watch Portsmouth being bombed night after night. My other Grandad was evacuated from Dunkirk and thankfully also survived the war. You look at those beaches and the hairs on your arms stand on end. So many men (well mostly boys actually and many of them conscripted) and so many lives destroyed, not just their own but their families too. Horrific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 Yes, it was such an amazing day in history. I try to remember the passion & fear of all those people so many years ago. Some of them are still alive with terrible memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 there is what sounds like a wonderful new exhbition at Dover Castle, opens June 10. all about what it was like to survive the Dunkirk Evacuation; and revamped Tunnels exhib (masterminding D-Day from Dover...). Dover Castle is totally evocative of this period of history (and much else as well). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
