Showing posts with label 75th anniversary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 75th anniversary. Show all posts
Friday, May 08, 2020
Britain Was Led by Churchill Then — It’s Led by a Churchill Tribute Act Now
Somehow the quiet made it louder. By rights, marking the 75thanniversary of VE Day in the midst of a pandemic that has confined us to our homes – forcing us to keep our distance from one another, denying us the right to gather in crowds – should have muffled this commemoration. A celebration in private would surely feel like no celebration at all. Katherine Jenkins singing to an empty Albert Hall, streets with no street parties and the pubs all shut: how could that add up to anything other than a damp squib?
And yet Friday’s marking of the end of the second world war struck a deeper chord than it might, had it been just another sunny bank holiday. Yes, the usual rituals had to be suspended. There could be no wreath-laying at local memorials: instead, Prince Charles and Camilla laid two small wreaths on their own, in a crowd-less corner of Balmoral, watched by a lone piper. There could be no veterans’ parades, no reunions for those who had served, no grateful handshakes from the politicians: 102-year-old former staff sergeant Ernie Horsfall had to make do with a Zoom call from Boris Johnson. And there were limited opportunities for silliness: the Winston Churchill impersonators were all dressed up with nowhere to go, forced to perform their cigar-and-V-sign shtick online. » | Jonathan Freedland | Friday, May 8, 2020
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75th anniversary,
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Thursday, January 23, 2020
Remembering the Holocaust: Prince Charles Speaks
Steinmeier at Yad Vashem: 'I Bow in Deepest Sorrow for German Acts' | DW News
75th Anniversary of Liberation of Auschwitz: A Survivor Remembers | DW News
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75th anniversary,
Auschwitz,
Holocaust
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