$1000 Subsidy ALL D-Day Vets for 60th Anniversary

Originally posted by V_D
Thanks R.

Dammit. Its cruel isn't it? Like slapping the Vets in the face, especially if you know that 60 years ago the Vets were mostly around 20 years old. 11th hour safe offer that can't be used?

Disgusted in Winnipeg

I understand.

We can only tell it as it is.

Your age estimate is about right, maybe some of the NCOs and junior officers were 30 somethings; so, they're all 80 something now and most will be somewhat infirm. You can't go carting these people about for miles and miles, then expect them to walk a fair way to the closed-off beaches etc, arrangements should have been started at least a year ago between governments.

Just shows how thoughtful those in power actually are perhaps and their grasp on history; with regret I note that this may well be the last big do, the math alone suggests the 70th will see very few actual D-Day vets at all.

Paradoxically it can be frightening for these old warriors too; on the 55th Mrs N and I strolled around Pegasus bridge - the new scaled-up one, when a mini-bus of red beret old soldiers arrived and in minutes they were literally mobbed like pop-stars in a huge crush of people which only resolved itself when the gendarmes arrived.

R.