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I loved the Wren veteran Edna who received her medal at last. A perfect salute and a great sense of humour.

You're right but I don't remember much about it. Perhaps I had one too many. :drink:

The majority of the media (if you follow the posts back in the thread, that is what I was referring to) #17

Yes, I visited my Dad there when I got south for another weekend, having visited him in the County after the op. It was light, airy, well looked after and the residents very cheerful.

Gifford House. My Dad convalesced there in 1990 following a big operation. He was very well treated and donations at his funeral 8 years went to them at his request. Whilst he was convalescing the Not Forgotten Society took him and several other resident veterans to a garden party at Buckingham...

I don't have a problem with Union flags but I do have a problem with making it exclusively about us.

There was a commemoration of 50th anniversary of Dday and subsequent years of that. I'm not entirely comfortable with all the Union flags flying when it was the Allies who won the Peace not just Britain.

It's the jingoism in the media that I find so galling. I have seen several references to Victory over Europe, when it stands for Victory in Europe. There's hardly any reference to the Allies. At the Cenotaph in November you will see representatives of the Commonwealth who fought alongside us...

I find it strange celebrating VE Day nowadays when it wasn’t celebrated before. Remembrance Day was always the day for looking back. My Dad would have been 100 now, serving from 35-68 in the RN, but sadly died 22 years ago. There are very few left now. He would have been puzzled by today.