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Old 05-08-10, 02:16 PM   #1
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Default V-E Day 65th Anniversary

Today is the 65th anniversary of V-E Day....I'm a little suprised nothing has been posted yet (20:15 GMT).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day

http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/remembrance/ve65


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Aye, and on Monday it's another anniversary, a little less cheerful one though admittedly.
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How many years?

1949 lifting of the Berlin blockade?
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70 - 10th May 1940 - Fell Gelb begins
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Oh heck!....and somebodys garanddaughter got shagged in a haystack and someone crossed the road for the first time with a glass eye and somebody.....
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Fall Gelb.
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Fall Gelb.
Oh dear...political/grammatical correctness
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Hitlers dead, good riddance, shame he never blew his brains out before he started WW2.
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Ditto
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Today is the 65th anniversary of V-E Day....I'm a little suprised nothing has been posted yet (20:15 GMT).
Sorry, was too busy drinking in celebration.
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Just watched the Victory Parade in Moscow. Amazing.

Also it was simulcasted live on the BBC news site.
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would have saved us all a lot of .... of .... of .... lots!
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Late post i know, but on days like that i just feel like saying thanks to the men and women who gave their lives (and offered them) so that i can have the chance to sit on my backside playing Hilent Hunter 4.
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