Admin Post I'm sad. I was supposed to be in the Netherlands this week with students to commemorate the liberation as well as VE day. The students were looking forward to it for a year and a half.
It still means something to me. My wife and I are too young but our families were directly affected by the war, as were many others'. My next door neighbor passed on about 5 years ago. Before he died his company were all awarded the congressional medal. I guess to me WW II was the most important war in history, and Im very very thankful to those that fought.
Same here, my parents both grew up during WWII. Like so many others of their generation, they're gone now and the link to the past is weaker.
I was asking because my daughter went to the university of Brighton for a few semesters. The plan was give her some time to get settled and my wife and I Would take our dream vacation there. But 911 hit and ruined that , my daughter and friends were scared to death with the uncertainty with what happened. Anyway she said the people of England and Ireland watch over and treated these kids great .
We have lots of overseas students at Sheffield's two universities normally, but it's very quiet in the city at the moment. With the roads pretty clear at the moment maybe, under normal circumstances you would need a helicopter to make those times. . Luckily, I've been to Brighton and will never need to go there again.
When you have a 94 year old Monarch who served in the war and remembers the day with a UK wide speech it's pretty difficult not to remember the occasion.
