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V.E.DAY CELEBRATIONS.
May 3, 2020 14:32:02 GMT
Post by hattersussex on May 3, 2020 14:32:02 GMT
It is such a pity that the V.E.Day Celebrations will have to be cancelled due to the current lock down, the Bank Holiday was altered in order for the 75th Anniversary to be celebrated...There are a lot of programmes on most T.V. channels this week, and I hope they will be as good as last night's effort, with some incredible film, not seen before !
I have seen so many people on T.V. recently, trying to compare today's awful events with the War, one woman the other day saying " It's worse than the war, at least you could go out then "...Sorry, I can't agree with that !...Today we appear to live in a name and blame society, where the media and show business stars are looked upon, as being endowed with infinite political wisdom !...Can you imagine Winston Churchill having to face the T.V. News cameras every day, and tell the nation, how many people had been killed or injured during the previous nights bombing raids, over London and other towns and cities...Laura Kuenssberg would have had a field day !!
I was 7 years old when the War ended, I had known nothing else but War...Air raid sirens, the searchlights, huge anti aircraft balloons, the A.A.Guns opening up on Tooting Bec Common...The bomb that wiped out about 6 or 7 large Victorian properties in the next road and at the rear of our back garden, we played on that bomb site for about 5 years after the war !...The Doodlebugs and finally the V.2.Rockets...about 500 struck London...good job Hitler did not possess the Atomic Bomb !
On V.E.Day...My Dad was still not home from the Royal Navy, My Mum worked underground at Admiralty Arch, she seemed to know everything that was going on, Churchill was often down there...I had been brought up by my Nan...and so it was, at about 7:30 pm. on that very day, that my Mum came home from work, woke me up, told me to get dressed, we were going uptown !...Wow !...we got the underground train from Tooting Bec to Waterloo, I remember we made our way slowly down the Thames Embankment, I had never witnessed such scenes of absolute joy and happiness, the buildings where lit up, boats on the Thames were shooting huge spouts of water up into the night air, and these seemed to be coloured, There were Soldiers, Airmen and Sailors dancing with all the women, of any age, the air was full of laughter and the sounds of the Hokey Cokey, Knees up Mother Brown and the Lambeth Walk...I had never experienced such a massive outpouring of sheer joy...We finally ended up at Lambeth Bridge...We managed to get a Southern Electric train to Balham and walked from there back home, getting in at about 3 am.
The war was over, we owed billions of dollars, no one had anything, but National pride and unity to rebuild the country...It will be hard after this crisis is over, but in comparison to 1945...I don't think so !
I have seen so many people on T.V. recently, trying to compare today's awful events with the War, one woman the other day saying " It's worse than the war, at least you could go out then "...Sorry, I can't agree with that !...Today we appear to live in a name and blame society, where the media and show business stars are looked upon, as being endowed with infinite political wisdom !...Can you imagine Winston Churchill having to face the T.V. News cameras every day, and tell the nation, how many people had been killed or injured during the previous nights bombing raids, over London and other towns and cities...Laura Kuenssberg would have had a field day !!
I was 7 years old when the War ended, I had known nothing else but War...Air raid sirens, the searchlights, huge anti aircraft balloons, the A.A.Guns opening up on Tooting Bec Common...The bomb that wiped out about 6 or 7 large Victorian properties in the next road and at the rear of our back garden, we played on that bomb site for about 5 years after the war !...The Doodlebugs and finally the V.2.Rockets...about 500 struck London...good job Hitler did not possess the Atomic Bomb !
On V.E.Day...My Dad was still not home from the Royal Navy, My Mum worked underground at Admiralty Arch, she seemed to know everything that was going on, Churchill was often down there...I had been brought up by my Nan...and so it was, at about 7:30 pm. on that very day, that my Mum came home from work, woke me up, told me to get dressed, we were going uptown !...Wow !...we got the underground train from Tooting Bec to Waterloo, I remember we made our way slowly down the Thames Embankment, I had never witnessed such scenes of absolute joy and happiness, the buildings where lit up, boats on the Thames were shooting huge spouts of water up into the night air, and these seemed to be coloured, There were Soldiers, Airmen and Sailors dancing with all the women, of any age, the air was full of laughter and the sounds of the Hokey Cokey, Knees up Mother Brown and the Lambeth Walk...I had never experienced such a massive outpouring of sheer joy...We finally ended up at Lambeth Bridge...We managed to get a Southern Electric train to Balham and walked from there back home, getting in at about 3 am.
The war was over, we owed billions of dollars, no one had anything, but National pride and unity to rebuild the country...It will be hard after this crisis is over, but in comparison to 1945...I don't think so !
