OT D Day aniv

I think you need to check your calendar, Julian...

The bbc website said the 8th

The surrender to the British soldier was the start of a chain of events which culminated on VE Day, on 8 May.

Damn i mean VE day, not D day...sorry took a loads of meds for bad back. I just wonderd if it was t be celebrated happy or a silence to remember those who died.

In article

whoa! thought i had a oreo flashback for a second.

Oh. That makes more sense. ;)

Mmmmmm! Cookies!

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Julian 'Penny for the guy' Hales wrote

As far as I can see it's mostly being resolutely cheerful : there's supposedly dancing in St Anns Square in Manchester, a street party experience at the Cabinet War Rooms (though I can't help feeling they mean outside the war rooms), and a concert for 15,000 people in Trafalgar Square (with Dame Vera Lynn, Cliff Richard and Will Young).

Haven't seen any mention of any silences... except in the historical notes which pointed out that a lot people with relatives fighting in the Far East were upset by the original VE day celebrations [bit like the woman in my family who got the telegram about her fiancee on 11 November 1918]

Im wondering how the German girl Anett will feel being in England for the next month

Here in the USA most Americans wouldn't know what VE day was if it fell on them. I don't know if that's just an American thing (forgetting (or not learning) history), or if it's just general. As a group, I think we Americans don't have a clue about geography, either. I remember reading an article about a study done of 4-year college graduates in the early 80s. Somewhere around 50% of America's brightest couldn't find the Soviet Union on a map of the world! 30+% couldn't find Canada and Mexico! And these are the people running our businesses and government (congress, in particular) today. I'm sure things haven't improved much since...

Don McIntyre Clarksville, TN

said in his best cookie monster voice...

"Julian 'Penny for the guy' Hales" wrote

She should look at it as the day her country was pried out from under darkness and started its journey back into civilization.

Nothing to be ashamed about there.

KL

And it goes all the way down to the peasants. I went out on a blind date with a woman who originally came from Johnstown, Pa. She lived in Dauphin County and wasn't sure in what direction Johnstown lay from there. I knew things were going downhill at that moment...

OK, so I'm odd but I can't see a map without running my eyes all over it. I'd hate to say how many classes in school I had trouble following the lesson that the teacher was giving because the world map was down and I'm sitting there mentally moving South America over to snuggle up with west Africa. I'll bet plate tectonics was not being discussed.

There weren't too many countries of which I didn't have a rough idea of their general shape or their location re other countries. The former Soviet Republics have given me new forms to study.

How many people here are aware that South America is generally east of North America? Follow the longitude of New York straight south and it will pass through the Pacific off the coast of Peru. I've also come to realise that where I am is only a few miles north of Athens, Greece. Most of Europe is north of the US. Class dismissed. ;Þ

Bill Banaszak, MFE BTW, my first knowledge of Johnstown and the 1889 Flood came through a Mighty Mouse cartoon. ;)

As intended!

Bill Banaszak, MFE