We don't all remember the war

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I've just been for a walk and passed a pub with a notice up about a lunch with entertainment for the over 60s. The entertainment is a crooner singing a selection of wartime favourites. Now I'm 66 and the cultural movements that informed my youth were hippies, glam rock and punk. For people 10-20 years older than me it would've been Elvis, mods and rockers, the Beatles and there can't be many people in the target age group with clear memories of the war, many wouldn't have been born. Obviously I realise the audience will be self-selecting and anyone who prefers Led Zeppelin will give it a swerve, but I did find it depressing that this is still considered appropriate entertainment for people my age. I don't want to find myself in a care home in 20 years time being forced to listen to Vera Lynn.

Where's Slash when you need him?

My mother's 95. She would never listen to Vera Lynn voluntarily; given the choice, it would be something like the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals and Elvis and Cliff.

@CaptainMyCaptain - no, Australia

Fair enough.

This reminds me of a youtuber posting a video a few years ago about a dispute he got into with an older man who was being abusive towards him about his supposedly bad parking. The youtuber was then started on by a baying crowd of delinquents who kept shouting "how dare you argue with an older person, they fought for us in the war you know". The older man was no more than 65 😂He didn't correct them

We still have living relatives who remember the War. But they were children at the time!