Dday programme

[Sweetpea55]

Just been watching this on BBC.
Very enjoyable and extremely touching.
Just wondered if anyone else thought Prince Charles needed his jacket sorting out. It looked like the weight of his medals was dragging it down.
And who saw one of the dignitaries picking his nose..

Sweetpea I watched all of it. Very moving. Unfortunately no one on MN gives a stuff about this.

Yes, Derxa, there are some.

It's a pity that all the OP can take from the very moving Service is sartorial and picky!

I've been watching. I never knew my Grandad but knowing what they went through makes me heartbroken but also so very proud.

And I think it's more relevant now that ever. We are always stronger in a union than alone. Should the unthinkable happen again, it will be Europe standing by our side.

Is there a thread about the D Day ceremonies? I had to Google to find that one.

The ceremony was very moving and my Grandad was involved in the landings, those men fought for our freedom and free speech, they went through hell and have my utmost respect.
I didn't notice Prince Charles as I was remembering my Grandad

My family weren't involved in fighting because they were farmers. However I appreciate what those old boys did. It must have been absolute hell.

@derxa there's a thread that didn't start out being about D Day, so it's not surprising you didn't find it, but it has become an interesting discussion on the merits and demerits of still remembering, how it should be done, etc. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3604422-Youd-think-Trump-or-someone-would-offer-Melania-a-hand-here Lots of respect and a bit of dissent.

thanks

My family were the wrong generation to be fighting (DF was just too young.) However my DGF was involved at a reasonably seniorish level with the engineering side of the Mulberry harbours before they were shipped out.

We took our DDs to see the beaches and war graves a few years ago. It is important to remember the sacrifices of the past so we don't find ourselves needing to repeat them.

I've got the BBC1 programme on at work (and am recording it to watch properly later on). Naga Munchetty looked close to tears a few times on Breakfast this morning. I'm not surprised, as she was talking to a veteran who was only 15 on D-Day (he lied about his age to sign up).

I visited the war graves and landing beaches last year and found it such a moving experience.

I watched the programme didn't pay much attention to Prince Charles, i was thinking of my grandad who fought in WW2, he would tell me some horrific and brutal thing's during his time in the war, he would cry at the horror's he saw, i have great admiration for what these men and women did for there country, they should never be forgotten, as for Prince Charles and his medal's what did he actually do to deseve to wear them, couldn't careless if his jacket wasn't sitting properly

DH and I spent quite a while trying to work out what Prince Charles had done to deserve all those medals.

Conclusion - nothing whatsoever.

Do you think Charles will be King when they do it all again in 5 years time for the 80th anniversary?

Prince Charles has earned some medals. He served in the armed forces. Mot all medals are for combat.

Did anyone see the veteran being interviewed in Southsea on BBC yesterday afternoon? He had no idea it was going out live. It was such a sweet moment when the reporter told him and he looked all embarrassed!

I didn't see Naga this morning but can see how difficult it would be not to show emotion when actually eye to eye with these brave humble men.

Lest we forget.

Just listened to Frank Baugh's account of landing on the beach and his dead colleagues floating dead in the water.

@NannyOgg Prince Charles received some of these medal's for serving in the armed forces? My x brother in law was in the army for 20 years did 2 tour's of NI during the trouble's where's his medal? My next door neighbour did 16 year's in the army also went to NI no medal no Prince Charles doesn't deserve to be wearing medals at all

@NannyOgg Princess Anne and Prince Edward both wear medal's to what for? As far as i remember Prince Edward did a few week's training in one of the armed forces them dropped out because he couldn't hack it, he get's a couple of medal's for that? They get medal's for who they are not for serving there country, Prince Andrew is the only one of the Queen's children who deserves to wear one.

Ive been welling up listening to the surviving veterans and the fact that my scottish grandad by D day was already dead and buried in Italy , my dad at the time was REME fighting in North Africa and was in Germany (Berlin) at the end of the war sadly he died when i was nine so i never got to talk with him about the war but we all of us owe these men and women (nurses) so much that we can never repay their sacrifice

I've been watching all morning and can't stop crying, it's so very moving. Especially seeing hearing from the veterans. My grandad landed on gold beach at Arromanches on 07/06 and we have visited many times over the years with him and my gran. They are both dearly departed now but we still visit with our kids every summer. Anyway, I'm blathering on, it's a very emotional occasion, and I wish I was there with my grandad.

I thought it was beautifully done. Naga was really fighting back the tears

There's a thread in chat, and another one In the News.
My DF was 22 when he went over on DDay +2
I've been watching Sky News this morning. A little boy asked his Great Grandfather if he missed his mummy when he went to war.
It was the kind of question only a child would ask. I burst into tears.
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It is so moving, those young men (and women) gave everything for us. My heart breaks when I hear stories of the wives (and girlfriends) left behind, of husbands and fathers who never came home.
I remember a story from a lovely lady I worked with years ago, during the war she was a mechanic, her and her 3 female colleagues were sent off to a base in Portsmouth in April 1944, they worked day and night preparing trucks and other vehicles, they serviced and repaired them and on the last day as they finished the last vehicle they headed of to bed. Next morning they went to the workshops to collect their tools before heading back to Cambridgeshire and to their surprise all the vehicles were gone (they had worked on 100s of them) when they asked the Sergeant on duty he told them that they had been working on a top secret project and their vehicles would help in defeating Hitler and his forces. They found out a few days later that the project was DDay! She was always so proud of the tiny part she played in the landings xx

I think about them all. The brave men, those who did the jobs such as mermaid has described, the friends and family waiting and worrying, the people suffering with losses, the mothers trying to keep everything together, the people keeping supply chains going, emergency services, medical staff treating the horrific wounds and mental scars, the children missing out on a carefree childhood, the evacuees. Everyone really. Even the poor animals who had to be put to do horrific work and lost their lives and the much loved family pets who had to be put to sleep. I can't even begin to fathom what it was like and I have such respect for all of those who lived through the wars. Sadly we've lost everyone in our family now who lived through it. They were very special people indeed.

I'll look up the medal situation properly later.

Some of the Royal's medals are obviously honary where they are commanders on chief of various regiments. But PC was an officer in the navy and I think the RAF? So more likely entitled to some. I didn't say that was fair.