Dunkirk

[Hugh Spencer]

During this week's commemoration of the Evacuation of Dunkirk can we not only remember the bravery of the army, navy and little ships but that between 28th May and 3rd Jun 1940, 956 sorties were carried out against enemy targets around Dunkirk by Bomber Command with the loss of 57 aircraft, about 160 aircrew. They, too, should be remembered.

[MarkRae]

> the people who fought are still dead, and we are still indebted to them for their sacrifice

I never said that they weren't, or we weren't...

[Peter Pedant]

erm Sorry Coventry and Dresden were separated by four years or so
Perhaps that is the reason why we should remember them - or our history anyway.


and we dont remember or revere Suez, but the Egyptians do. - anniversary of the British being kicked out of Egypt unceremoniously by Col Nasser is a big thing for them.

John Foster Dulles, who was engineering a run on the Pound, said when he landed at Heathrow in 1956, "I have come to help"
and an Egyptian is the only person I know who was able to complete the quote.
The English not realising the significance tend to say, it was all a long long time ago.....

[jno]

123Everton, perhaps there comes a point where we think (possibly quite unconsciously) that they'd be dead by now anyway and the urge to commemorate their sacrifice fades? Everyone's aware of Harry Patch's death; though I believe there are some non-frontline combatants still alive the nation sort of feels a line has now been drawn under WW1?