VE Day Celebrations

Me to merlotgran I confess to having a tear in my eye.

It was so moving when the 100year old was thanked for what his generation did 80 years ago

Yes. Walked the dog early and prepped lunch so we were ready to enjoy.

Reassuring to see the King and Kate looking so well.

merlotgran

Anyone watching the BBC coverage?

I’ve just settled down with a coffee. I love occasions like this. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Yes I am watching the tv.

Mj 😊

The commentators are making some awful mistakes. The Battle of Britain was NOT in 1930 😡

yes, silly mistakes from the bbc coverage. who was the man commenting?
great to see the King up and down to take the salute. years in him yet harry

Yes, DH and I are watching, it’s very humbling and I truly hope it’ll strike those who veer towards the far right!

Amazing woman talking at the moment who is 101! Very wise words!

merlotgran

Reassuring to see the King and Kate looking so well.

Lovely to see all the royals out and chatting and sitting with our very brave vets

We're in Gran Canaria at the moment, but we've been watching the BBC coverage since 10am this morning 🇬🇧

So nice to see the royal family members sitting alongside the veterans and chatting with them during the march-past parade.

Cossy

Yes, DH and I are watching, it’s very humbling and I truly hope it’ll strike those who veer towards the far right!

Amazing woman talking at the moment who is 101! Very wise words!

I could listen her all afternoon but she’d probably need a nap. I would never have guessed she’s 101!

So stylish as well.

Remembering our own families.

My dad was in the RAF in India - working on aeroplanes.

One Uncle was a prisoner of war in Japan near Nagasaki. His war had a few more months to go.

Another uncle was in the Middle East

One grandfather was in the army in India, the other had a protected occupation working in Portsmouth dockyard.

Dad told me recently that he, my Granny and his brother and sister, plus the other army wives and children, were evacuated from India in 1940 by ship to Marseille then up through France by train and across the Channel.
They arrived, out of the blue, at a relative's door late at night and said we've come to stay.

Just watched the fly past, Sophie doing a little hip movement to the Dam busters music!

We always watch events like this on Sky News, you get none of the constant waffling you get on BBC.

Just watched the fly past. I was just 6 months old on VE Day.

We've been out and only just caught the last ¾ hour but will try to watch it all on iPlayer but at least saw the fly-past 🙂
DH watches but it must be with a sense of sadness and loss as his father, who was an RAF officer, never returned from the war.

Watching on GB News. Doing it for my Pop, Mum & StepDad who were all involved in the 2nd World War. Pop was in Scotland training troops & ended up with pleurisy & pneumonia every year till it killed him. Mum later married his best friend who Pop had asked to look after my Mum for him! Pop had a brother lost in a Japanese Concentration Camp & one of the last soldiers killed at the end of WW2 was another of Pop’s brothers! I will be the last of our small family doing this for Pop, his brothers, my Mum & stepDad. When I die my son will not know all of those & having his wife & children will not be able to! So as long as I am alive & VE Day is celebrated I will happily sit & watch as now to old to get out to celebrate!

Watched some of it, I fetched the washing in to iron in front of the tv.

Yes, I noticed Sophie swaying to the music!

The Duke Of Kent looks very frail, but the Princess Royal made sure he was included.

Thank goodness for her, the Wales’, the Edinburghs, all there supporting the King and Queen.

I wonder what they were having for the afternoon tea?

Absolutely loved this semi solemn occasion. As always an excellent display from our armed and civilian forces. Said a silent prayer for my long dead father, killed over the Netherlands before I was born, a Navigator in a Lancaster, also my mother's cousin, killed in.North Africa, and lastly my much loved stepfather who was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore, and who spent 3 + weary years as a POW. Such brave men and so very young.

I still have the gold RAF wings broach, worn by my mother.

It is very sobering to remember how many made the supreme sacrifice as combatants and how many civilians were bombed and did not live to see VE day.

jaberwok that is a somber read.

My father was a wireless operator in Coastal Command, firstly Catalinas then Sunderlands. They were involved in the Murmansk run, protecting the convoys from German U boats and the Luftwaffe. It was always so cold he was allowed to smoke a pipe so he could keep his fingers warm by holding the bowl.

My grandfather and uncle were both in the Merchant Navy doing the Atlantic runs.

We were very lucky not to lose anyone in the family.