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The attached is a letter my dad recently gave to me written by my late grandad who wrote it for my cousins History project. I have fond memories of him allowing me to play in the house with his ex army issues bayonet, single barrlled shotgun and a German bayonet he took off a POW, health and safety eh? :whistling:

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Tremendous read........written by someone who obviously was deeply moved by his experiences during the war.

Thanks for sharing that with us.............People sometimes forget just what scarifices people like your grandfather made.

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:thumbs: These are the "grandads " and old guys we push into homes and forget about .The little bent figures who now go to the local shop via a gauntlet of pathetic and spitefull teeny -thugs..This sort of letter shows that we should be talking to and learning from such men and women .Schoolchildren should have regular trips to interveiw the people involved in the making of our history rather than simply downloading a potted ,spun and politically correct version of the past. :thumbs:
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Cheers for that Simo. :thumbs: We don't know we're born these days, moaning about the price of fuel, immigrants, the hunting ban, etc. They're just minor irritations compared to what the older generation went through. My great Uncle Glyn, on my nan's side was twice missing presumed dead in Holland, shortly after D day. My G.Grandmother had the dreaded letter through the door twice. He was sheltered by a Dutch family the second time, and my nan still has the letter that the family sent to my G.Grandmother after the war, saying how lucky she was to have a son like my Uncle Glyn.

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Great read that, had me gripped.

 

Some things never change though "hunderds of Americans were killed by their own bombers", is hard to imagine it still happens with the technology of today.

 

Thanks for sharing :good:

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Choked. What a letter and we owe so much to that generation. Both my grandfathers and there brothers fought in the war. One grandad was happy to talk about it but the other would never talk about it.

 

Always in there debt.

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My dad was at Belsen when it was freed: he would never talk about it: it affected him for the rest of his life.

I just hope that the youngsters on this forum read your letter and learn a little more.

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