Well done, BA. You really get it. I saw the army and RAF cadets marching to the Town Hall on Sunday and was moved to tears; I also thought of my Dad every Remembrance Sunday crying as he watched the ceremony - he never cried, but when you're thinking of the things you've seen that nobody would ever want to witness, the people you knew who were killed, and the experiences that nobody who wasn't there will ever understand, you would, too.
I remember watching that episode of Blackadder when it was first shown with a load of, what can only be described as, 'grebos'. I think all of us had lumps in our throats when it had finished. It shows, amid all the statistics of numbers killed, that they were REAL people. People who just wanted to go home, marry their girlfriend and play cricket in their spare time. And they were so, so young - about the same age as I was when it was first shown. Heartbreaking.
And I know the BBC have come in for some flak over the past couple of weeks (some of it justified), but their 90 Years of Remembrance series has been excellent. From local news items to big primetime BBC1 shows with Rolf Harris, it's all been so very well done.
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Well done, BA. You really get it. I saw the army and RAF cadets marching to the Town Hall on Sunday and was moved to tears; I also thought of my Dad every Remembrance Sunday crying as he watched the ceremony - he never cried, but when you're thinking of the things you've seen that nobody would ever want to witness, the people you knew who were killed, and the experiences that nobody who wasn't there will ever understand, you would, too.
I remember watching that episode of Blackadder when it was first shown with a load of, what can only be described as, 'grebos'. I think all of us had lumps in our throats when it had finished. It shows, amid all the statistics of numbers killed, that they were REAL people. People who just wanted to go home, marry their girlfriend and play cricket in their spare time. And they were so, so young - about the same age as I was when it was first shown. Heartbreaking.
And I know the BBC have come in for some flak over the past couple of weeks (some of it justified), but their 90 Years of Remembrance series has been excellent. From local news items to big primetime BBC1 shows with Rolf Harris, it's all been so very well done.
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