Remembrance Day...lest we forget

[gryphon]

I think the central European approach is different , I live right next door to Germany and of course they don't wish to remember what happened. It is very strange to most people but the German people have a blank space in that department. It is not that they don't acknowledge what happened they do and with considerable regret .............more so than you might think But they had to move on and against very difficult circumstances , so their view is different and they have the approach that they look to the future.

Here in Holland especially in the South liberation came very late most people in Europe saw a lifting of the problems in late 1944..........The Southern Dutch were not so lucky they were liberated very late and there were several failed attempts and they were largely forgotten.............as a result many people in Southern Holland starved to death whilst the Germans over the boarder received help........................It is a rather forgotten story but it is called The Tulip Winter and is only now coming to light to the rest of the world...............The Dutch down here were so desperate that they even tried to eat the bulbs in the fields, rats and anything else they could whilst they waited and waited.......................

Also here I am near Vlanderen which translates of Flanders ...........It was on these grounds that the fighting of WW1 and WW2 happened .................The Belgians next door are still digging up bodies whenever they build something new..........They are sick of War and feel that the celebrations of 11/11 mean little to then as they had to bear the consequences of the battles twice in the last century

So here the big celebration is liberation day in May !