Vj 75Th Anniversary

[Deskdiary]

Anybody been watching this today?

I watched most of it, in between watching every Premiership Rugby game - god I've missed rugby.

Did anybody see the Kohima Epitaph: "When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow, we gave our today."

Jesus Christ, that sent a massive shiver down my spine.

[youngmafbog]

About 25 years ago I had a few personal problem. A very close friend of the family and his wife helped we through it. This quiet man from Wimbourne had never mentioned the war in the 30 odd year I had known him but whilst helping me it transpired he had fought in Burma alongside the Ghurkas. Some terrible stories and he died not long after. Such a privilege to have known this man.

I salute him and all his colleagues for all the sacrifices they gave.

[Apc2604]

All very humbling. They were such a strong generation. The forces and the civilians.

[youngmafbog]

The civlians in APAC paid a terrible price. Tenko was based on real experiences and toned down but still bought it home what they went through. The Japanese at the time were bar stewards.

[tamborine]

This war was brushed under the carpet due to British surrender.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/the-fall-of-singapore-an-avoidable-catastrophe/

[david small]

My father was out in the Far East, Island Clearing...He would not talk about it. I remember the tears in his eyes as he remembered. My uncle was a Japanese prisoner of war for several years. They locked him in a tiny bamboo cage and jabbed him with bayonets. Lest we forget.

[Mamyalynne]

So many never spoke of the horrors, they found it too painful.

We owe them so much.

[zebo]

// I'm a bit in love with Martin Shaw. He lives quite near us! Beautiful speaking voice.//

Hingham? I once bumped into him shopping down the road from there, I couldn't place his face for a while though! Grandchildren were horrified when I used the words 'sex on legs', grandmas don't have those thoughts apparently.

[tamborine]

Mother Superior office where I spent floods of tears in detention :(

https://ibb.co/wrHR32q

[jourdain2]

Going back to the broadcast VJ Day event at the arboretum........ I'm certain that the 'a cappella' singers were 'VOCES 8'. If you haven't come across them, please check them out on you-tube. Their 'LUX AETERNA' is enough to bring tears from a stone. Singing as it should be - just stand there and do it (often in jeans and leggings!).