D-Day Commemoration, Portsmouth

[naomi24]

Britain does these things so very well!

Lump in throat, tear in eye – and that from someone who wasn’t around on D-Day but is nevertheless eternally grateful for the sacrifice made by that generation. I hope it is never forgotten. Heartfelt thanks to them all.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48522401

[Mamyalynne]

Fitting tributes.

[Spicerack]

Millions of rich kids avoided the draft, gromit. Including the ones in N. Vietnam.

[retrocop]

Strange world. I suppose they would of preferred giving their interview in German rather than their native tongue.
I saw a British vet in a wheelchair being pushed around Dunkirk by his daughter. A Frenchman crossed the road,shook his hand and said, merci.
.

[sanmac]

"...large group of elderly French that believe that more civilians were slaughtered by the Allies than needed to be." What a really bizarre statement or point of view by those elderly French. They are implying that it's OK to 'slaughter' some civilians but the Allies 'slaughtered' more than needed to be. How many more: 20, 1000, 5000...? I would really like to see or read that video or article that RR is alluding to.

[Rockrose]

and you are attempting to twist what i wrote sanmac - it was on the national news. - look it up

[ToraToraTora]

RR:"more civilians were slaughtered by the Allies than needed to be. " - yep you can always rely on the loony left to misrepresent what actually happened. Civilians were collateral damage, they were not sought out and "slaughtered". Slaughtering is what the Germans were doing to the Jews.

[sanmac]

RR, Naomi24 was polite enough to post a link to what she is referring to, perhaps you could do the same.

[Rockrose]

unfortunaltely sanmac I have neither the time or the inclination to look through the news programs to find the links.
So - carry on infer what I have said is an lie and wallow in your joy.

[ichkeria]

It’s certainly true that many French believe much of the Allied bombing, especially of Caen of course, was too intense.
As posted earlier, as many French civilians died on D Day as did allied forces landing. That is perhaps a strange statistic, offered merely as such.

[ProfessorMaisie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-48489460/french-casualties-on-d-day-what-i-saw-was-so-horrible

This is from BBC News a couple of days ago Rockrose - it touches on the point you're trying to make but in a much more measured way.

Could you give more details of the ITV piece you mention (I can't track it down)?

[ichkeria]

I don’t think there is anything unmeasured about stating the fact that many French people from Normandy feel the Akkues went over the top with their bombing raids.
I thought that displeasure was widely known.
Whether they are right or not of course is another matter

[sanmac]

My first post was merely inquiring about the attitude of the elderly French and their use of the word 'slaughtered'. And now you interpret that as calling you a liar and wallowing in joy? Jeez!

[ToraToraTora]

RR:"So - carry on infer what I have said is an lie and wallow in your joy. " - no one is denying civilians died, it's your terminology that's offensive. You say "slaughtered" like they were deliberately targeted, that's not the case, they were warned but were prevented from leaving by the Germans.

[ProfessorMaisie]

ichkeria - I'm referring to the way the BBC has reported the facts. What adjective do you suggest I use?

Perhaps you should have watched the piece before commenting - your reply didn't afford enough time for you to have done that.

[Spicerack]

Happens a lot, that, Professor.

[Ken4155]

Naomi opens a well worded thread giving her heartfelt thanks to those who made the ultimate sacrifice and yet all some of you can do in response is snipe at someone or something. There's something sadly lacking in some of you.

[naomi24]

Jackdaw, //I'm puzzled as to why it is today and not tomorrow, the actual anniversary. //

I think it might have been organised here today to avoid it clashing with the commemoration in Normandy tomorrow.

[ichkeria]

Sorry Professor I am ot what you are taking about. I was not referring to something someone may have seen in a recent tv programme. Just stuff that happened in 1944 and the different opinions different French locals who remember it have.

[anotheoldgit]

Rockrose
/// That is your opinion retro but not that of the people in question ///

What are you suggesting? That we should have first forewarned the French civilians that we were about to rid their country from Nazi domination?

[hereIam]

Sadly, I missed it. Would love to have seen it.