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05-08-2020, 10:34 AM | #1 |
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VE Day Commemoration
Many elaborate public celebrations were planned throughout the UK to mark the 75th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day which have all been cancelled due to the current anti-pandemic lockdown.
Instead, communities have found other ways to mark the occasion. This is our local effort. (There is a point where the narrator's voice is duplicated by accident, it doesn't last long).
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05-08-2020, 03:51 PM | #2 |
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Dad served in the Royal Navy in WW2 and was on HMS Glenroy (Landing Ship, Infantry) in the Far East.
I asked him this morning if he remembered where he was on VE Day. It took but a moment's thought before he said 'landing troops to the north of Singapore'. He was nineteen years old at the time.
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05-08-2020, 06:17 PM | #3 |
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I was three and remember being told about the day.
I was four for VJ Day and actually remember a bit of the hullabaloo. |
05-09-2020, 07:44 AM | #4 |
still says videotape
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05-10-2020, 06:35 AM | #5 | |
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From the Daily Telegraph:
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05-10-2020, 11:54 AM | #6 |
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limey, your video is inaccessible to me, saying it's marked private.
I'm gonna fall out for a smoke.
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05-10-2020, 04:41 PM | #7 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
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