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webbo3 | 15:57 Sat 15th Sep 2018 | News
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Today is Battle of Britain day and I’ve not heard a peep on the news

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6163129/Battle-Britain-Day-2018-need-know.html
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We owe that generation so much. Must have been made of sterner stuff than me for a start! My thanks to them all.
20:03 Sat 15th Sep 2018
I haven't had any News programmes on today, I know there have been stories and articles in the days leading up and also commemorations and flypasts in certain parts of the country.
I was born in the late 30s yes there has been violence in the 40s ,50s but what I am trying to say is ,there seems to be a viciousness now that wasn’t on the scene then,machetes and Samaria swords can’t remember them being used.
Wrong thread Jordy?
Sorry wrong thread to much sun and raki,sorry spare ed can you please move it?
Doubt there's an Ed looking in on Saturday afternoon, C&P it into the right place.
I am on my iPad Mamy,how are you?hope you are well did you see my lovely music post earlier not a bad post in the lot?
I'll copy it to the right thread.

Yes, great thread.
Done.
Thanks Mamy you’re a gem.XX
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster flew low directly over our house this afternoon. A magnificent sight.
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And a great noise as well, incredible sounding engines.
Spoiler alert, we won.
no! no ! douglas...we didn't it was just the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end....;-)

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Hello I am back on the right track to say
It’s surprising how many people don’t realise in the Battle of Britain it was not just British who were fighting with us.



we owe so much
In response to the post at 1804:
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-45516556
Commemorations now take place on the Sunday before the actual date, a bit like Remembrance Day.
We owe that generation so much. Must have been made of sterner stuff than me for a start!
My thanks to them all.
"Spoiler alert, we won."
Really. I am not so sure these days. I recall part of Sir Winston's speeches which said words to the effect, "we see our brave fighter pilots fighting in the skys every day.Let us hope we are worthy of their endeavours. For the rest we must gain that victory. That is our task".
Recited from memory. I think that those who fought and died for this country have been let down by future events.They would be proud of their achievments at the time but would now,be turning in their grave. :-(
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The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. All hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day, but we must never forget that all the time, night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets in the darkness by the highest navigational skill, aim their attacks, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate, careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war-making structure of the Nazi power. On no part of the Royal Air Force does the weight of the war fall more heavily than on the daylight bombers who will play an invaluable part in the case of invasion and whose unflinching zeal it has been necessary in the meanwhile on numerous occasions to restrain…


A good many people have written to me to ask me to make on this occasion a fuller statement of our war aims, and of the kind of peace we wish to make after the war, than is contained in the very considerable declaration which was made early in the autumn.… I do not think it would be wise at this moment, while the battle rages and the war is still perhaps only in its earlier stage, to embark upon elaborate speculations about the future shape which should be given to Europe… But before we can undertake the task of rebuilding we have not only to be convinced ourselves, but we have to convince all other countries that the Nazi tyranny is going to be finally broken. The right to guide the course of world history is the noblest prize of victory. We are still toiling up the hill; we have not yet reached the crest-line of it; we cannot survey the landscape or even imagine what its condition will be when that longed-for morning comes. The task which lies before us immediately is at once more practical, more simple and more stern.… "For the rest, we have to gain the victory. That is our task."

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