We salute Manse Everard and James Bond as two (fictional) veterans of World War II. I used to work with WWII veterans but they retired long before I did. This year, there were only twelve veterans of that war at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. Today, at 11:00 am, some people in Lancaster came out of their workplaces to stand for a minute's silence and others joined them. There have been too many wars since WWII.
See also War Memorials.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I'm amazed! There were still twelve veterans of WW II at that Remembrance Day ceremony? The youngest men plausibly old enough to serve in the armed forces in 1944-45 would be 18 years of age. Any veterans still alive now would have to be 100 or or more years old.
Is that King Charles presiding at that Remembrance Day ceremony in the illustration?
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
There are several over 100.
Yes, King Charles.
Paul.
My father was a veteran of WWII -- in fact, he met my mother because of a complication in his military career. Aiming a 7.2 inch gun at his CO, in fact!
He died at 93.
My father was a mining engineer - a "reserved profession" that could not be called up - so he was in the Home Guard.
Paul: Yeah, that was an essential trade to keep war production going.
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