D Day Memorial Opening in Normandy

securespark · 4 Jun 2021

I think it is wrong that this should go ahead when people from the UK cannot get over there to join in.

Vinty · 4 Jun 2021

Why don't they have it in the UK and France.
After all the UK is where it all began.

bernardgreen · 4 Jun 2021

On Sunday 6 June, the National Memorial Arboretum will host an event in partnership with the Royal British Legion and Normandy Memorial Trust to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

https://www.thenma.org.uk/what's-on/events-exhibitions-and-talks/events/d-day-77

Doug99 · 4 Jun 2021

I had a tour booked June 2020 but due to pandemic it was moved to June 2021, now moved again to June 2022.

Scarlet Pimpernel · 5 Jun 2021

Vinty said:
Why don't they have it in the UK and France.
After all the UK is where it all began.

Wouldn't that be like having the Boston Tea Party in London?
Or having Australia Day in Portsmouth?

JohnD · 5 Jun 2021

Vinty said:
Why don't they have it in the UK and France.
After all the UK is where it all began.

"They" do.