A great time to marry during such a feel good atmosphere Of course, not for everyone and I will always think of them
Two things I found upsetting me today beside my personal situation; in the U.S., there has been no public acknowledgement of the significance of today and in reading some of the comments in the newspapers of the U.K. There were many disparaging remarks that were totally uncalled for, and utter disrespect for those lives given for the freedoms these people enjoy today.
@Lois Winters - I'm upset to read that 'you' are upset by what you have read. In the past I would have been, but today its a way of life to be this way. People of our generation and before, would never speak like this and those are the ones that count. Please don't be upset - petty minds will not destroy our thoughts
I read that after V-E Day there was a victory parade in London with all allies participating except the Poles. Stalin told Churchill to not include them since Stalin had plans for Poland. A sad situation indeed. This I read in a book about Polish pilots who escaped Poland in 1939 after a fruitless effort against the Luftwaffe, who made their way to England and volunteered for the RAF and fought in the Battle of Britain. Google Kosciusco Squadron for more. I cannot leave out the Poles service in the British Army also. They were the ones who eventually took Monte Casino in Italy.
I have that book and it was an eye opener. The Poles were treated shabbily to say the very least. Also, the fact that the Brits and Americans made the decision to give into Stalin's demands where not even their right to do so.
Polish mathematicians broke the enigma code, but realizing an invasion was imminent, passed the information on to Britain where Turing constructed a type of computer to speed up the decoding. Long hand decoding took too long to be useful.
I never knew this so looked it up. The parade was in 1946 and it was a Labour Govn in charge at the time Any way enjoy this.
Just a teenie-weenie bit bigger than modern laptops perhaps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
76 years ago today, on D-Day, June 6,1944, Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandie, France to begin the long drive that eventually led to the defeat of the Nazis,who surrendered to the Allies on May 8, 1945. They actually surrendered to the Russian Army, who also liberated all the Nazi Concentration Camps. Hal