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VJ day
Posted by deeuu on 14/8/2025, 5:30:15
Tomorrow, it really is sad when you think there are hardly any people who fought in the war here to tell their stories.
God bless everyone of them, we can never repay our debt.For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Re: VJ day
Posted by RGDave on 14/8/2025, 13:45:29, in reply to "VJ day"
Well said.
Re: VJ day
Posted by Madpig on 14/8/2025, 12:55:12, in reply to "VJ day"
+1
Re: VJ day
Posted by Wessex on 14/8/2025, 10:45:18, in reply to "VJ day"
Read a good book on The Chindits Orde Wingate, and understand the brutal and exhausting warfare in the Burmese jungle fighting the IJAOnly dead fish swim with the tide.
Re: VJ day
Posted by Farhat on 14/8/2025, 9:43:46, in reply to "VJ day"
I'm just watching through The World At War, loads of stuff that I didn't know or had forgotten, and even worse than me forgetting is the parallels that can be drawn with what's going on in the world today.
WW1 - the war that ended wars; it didn't. WW2 - the war the ended fascism; it didn't.
So many people, so many young people, dying needlessly to satisfy the immorality of psychopathic men.
Re: VJ day
Posted by J in C on 14/8/2025, 10:53:09, in reply to "Re: VJ day" Sarah
Watch it regularly and I shake my head at how fascism dragged us into these wars.
Legend
Re: VJ day
Posted by Wessex on 14/8/2025, 11:11:36, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
No you don't, and Germany wasn't fascist in 1914Only dead fish swim with the tide.
Re: VJ day
Posted by J in C on 14/8/2025, 12:20:55, in reply to "Re: VJ day" Sarah
Yes I do probably watched every episode 4 maybe five times all 26 of them .
Now run along girlyLegend
Re: VJ day
Posted by Wessex on 14/8/2025, 10:46:32, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
#obsessedwithfascismOnly dead fish swim with the tide.
Re: VJ day
Posted by Madpig on 14/8/2025, 13:18:33, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
Let's be fair here, Germany was not a liberal state in 1914, it was an ambitious Imperial regime, with the Kaiser consummately envious of the British empire, and eaten up by anger at his low order in Victoria's funeral parade, being somewhere about 22nd in the cortege, whilst considering he should be at the front. The Hapsburgs were seeing the Austro-Hungarian empire cracking up. For all parties, war was a way to shore up and strengthen their grip on their subjects. It was common practice for socialists to be hunted down a got rid of in many central European states. Monarchic rule is little different from totalitarian rule. We are not living in a ' post war' Europe now. This is now a condition of pre war Europe as experienced by our grandfather's and their fathers. Their mantra being ' The existence of a stable society is based on the maintenance of an external enemy or an internal suppressed minority.'
Re: VJ day
Posted by Poster from the past on 14/8/2025, 15:39:37, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
Kaiser Bill was a total fucking twat of the highest order whose actions unnecessarily fucked up an inordinate amount of people over the next 30 odd years. A total cunt.outlaws is not the barometer of sanity.
Re: VJ day
Posted by Caught Jester on 14/8/2025, 10:06:05, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
Last month I went to a place called Seelow, about 40 miles east of Berlin and the site of the last major battle before the Russians reached Berlin. Whilst there I visited the war cemetery and was stunned not just by the row upon row of graves but the age of those killed - almost between 17 and 22yrs old. Forget the politics of it, I could only think of the madness of it.
Re: VJ day
Posted by deeuu on 14/8/2025, 10:44:53, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
A visit to Oradour-sur-Glane near Limoges is a sobering experience.For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Re: VJ day
Posted by Fife Hatter on 14/8/2025, 9:57:18, in reply to "Re: VJ day" Come on England
One of the best id not the best documentaries that's ever been made, watched it multiple times
Re: VJ day
Posted by Andy Cappuccino on 14/8/2025, 8:17:17, in reply to "VJ day"
Thanks to everyone who fought for this country, RIP those who have died
Re: VJ day
Posted by Hoofit on 14/8/2025, 8:51:51, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
Agreed.
God help us if we have another war the way successive Govts have treated vets and especially in today's WOKE era.
Re: VJ day
Posted by Well on 14/8/2025, 10:41:59, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
We are lucky to have patriots like you I guess.
Re: VJ day
Posted by Wilts Hatter on 14/8/2025, 9:27:56, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
My father was in the Royal Navy and was on the King George V in Tokyo Bay at the Japanese surrender. Between my two brothers and myself we have photographs of the surrender ceremony that took place on the USS Missouri. My father had a tough war but he and my uncles who also fought never made much of it. They returned to civvy street and got on with their lives. However, my father saw some of the German and Japanese handiwork at first hand and never forgave them. He would never knowingly have anything German or Japanese in his house.
Re: VJ day
Posted by Captain Pugwash on 14/8/2025, 10:56:43, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
The Imperial War Museum would be happy to have copies of those photos for thier records
Re: VJ day
Posted by Nearly a Genius on 14/8/2025, 9:13:10, in reply to "Re: VJ day" Legend of Outlaws
What a crass phrase at the end of your last sentence. Treating people equally, and not discriminating against others, was one of the reasons for fighting the war.
Re: VJ day
Posted by Andy Cappuccino on 14/8/2025, 9:36:29, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
It's clear this country now values unvetted economic migrants over those who put their lives on the line. Whether that's because of the relentless Woke agenda or other reasons I don't know but I know it's wrong. I won't debate this.
Re: VJ day
Posted by jimmyp on 14/8/2025, 11:34:05, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
Good, it was an absolutely retarded thing to say.
Having an absolutely retarded debate about it wouldn't add anything to anyone's life.
COYH, Jim
Re: VJ day
Posted by Well on 14/8/2025, 10:44:52, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
I remember Falkland vets sleeping on the streets.
Long before you idiots could even spell “woke”.
Re: VJ day
Posted by RADSB on 14/8/2025, 8:12:37, in reply to "VJ day"
My Grandad on my Dad's side was a prisoner of the Japanese. He didn't say much but he did say he only survived because he was one of the cooks at the camp.
It's been said by a few vets that they came out of it with no fear for the rest of their lives and my Grandad certainly lived by that. It's reflected in the country itself - the best times were post war until the late 70's when those vets retired and then started to die off. They have been replaced by lesser people unfortunately. Mr J.C. Lomax having been called upon to give his opinion upon the proposed formation of a Town Club, said he was most emphatically in favour of a proposed Luton Town Football Club - 11th April 1885
Re: VJ day
Posted by Caught Jester on 14/8/2025, 9:31:48, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
Late 70’s. What significant event happened back then that caused the country to take a marked turn for the worse I wonder ?
Re: VJ day
Posted by RADSB on 14/8/2025, 9:33:46, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
Mr J.C. Lomax having been called upon to give his opinion upon the proposed formation of a Town Club, said he was most emphatically in favour of a proposed Luton Town Football Club - 11th April 1885
Re: VJ day
Posted by Ronnies Finger on 14/8/2025, 8:33:41, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
Recall starting my Apprenticeship in 1975 in the print, and there was a proof reader, who must have been 6 stone dripping wet, really quiet guy, and always blowing his nose.
A fellow apprentice turns up one day on a brand new Kawasaki motorcycle, the old guy went fucking mental at him, and totally out of character, just for buying it. Found out later he was captured at Singapore in 1942.
Passed away in his late Sixties, often wondered what he went through in captivity.
Re: VJ day
Posted by MG on 14/8/2025, 8:09:28, in reply to "VJ day"
Very true. Well said.
Re: VJ day
Posted by J Block OAP on 14/8/2025, 7:52:56, in reply to "VJ day"
Well said. All heroes fighting in the toughest of conditions against a merciless enemy.
Re: VJ day
Posted by Wilt on 14/8/2025, 7:35:16, in reply to "VJ day"
So true, never taken for granted and forever appreciated.
Re: VJ day
Posted by Buzzard on 14/8/2025, 6:22:06, in reply to "VJ day"
Absolutely seconded
Re: VJ day
Posted by Fife Hatter on 14/8/2025, 8:29:13, in reply to "Re: VJ day" Come on England
RIP all vets
Re: VJ day
Posted by Nearly a Genius on 14/8/2025, 8:44:23, in reply to "Re: VJ day" Legend of Outlaws
My dad was in the Signals in the War. He was in Egypt, on his way to India, when the news of the Japanese surrender came through, and he wangled some leave, got transport somehow back to England, and he and my mum got married a couple of weeks later.
Re: VJ day
Posted by RADSB on 14/8/2025, 9:29:45, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
Phew, that was close. Lovely story of a love story. Of course in Victorian times you would have been named after your saviour - Nagasaki or Hiroshima? Mr J.C. Lomax having been called upon to give his opinion upon the proposed formation of a Town Club, said he was most emphatically in favour of a proposed Luton Town Football Club - 11th April 1885
Re: VJ day
Posted by Captain Pugwash on 14/8/2025, 11:04:13, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
My uncle who was on the D-day second wave, an 18 year old carrying a 2" mortar barrel, would never say anything against the A bombs, as he was on his way to the Far East with the Warwicks for the invasion of Japan.
Knowing what the US marines went through, he was not looking forward to it.
He received the Legion d'Honneur in 2005.
Re: VJ day
Posted by Caught Jester on 14/8/2025, 11:45:45, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
My Uncle too. He was 96 when he passed away 4yrs ago, I only found out he had that honour after he died. The French Consulate sent a representative to his funeral.
Re: VJ day
Posted by Berko Hatter on 14/8/2025, 11:01:05, in reply to "Re: VJ day"
We will remember them.
My Norwegian Grandfather served in the Norwegian resistance army against Nazi occupation. They caught him, but he was able to escape the night before he was due to be shot. 17 of his comrades weren’t so lucky. Very traumatised, though, and didn’t have much luck after the war, it was really tough in Norway.
On a lighter note, Bestefar enjoyed his few visits to KR. If he was alive today I dare say he’d be saying “Lasse - come home” ..
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