Some pictures from the memorial and parade in Ottawa today, new war museum was opening as well.
I hope this is okay, I’m not sure what the picture posting etiquette is…
I don’t think there are any special picture rules—I’m sure this is fine. I’m glad it was such a lovely day for the parade and museum openning. 
In our little town, on the 4th of July there is a parade and the veterans and the color guard come first in a wagon being pulled by a tractor!
To the men and women who served to bring down the expansionist and oppressive Fascist and Nazi movements I say thank you. To the fighting men of the Allied powers, to the men and women of the resistance within the Axis countries, and to my friends Leonard Weakley and Al Storie, I say a hearty thank you.
And to all those who voted for the British National Party in the UK elections,
I hope you didn’t have the nerve to show your faces at any of the events today.
Mukade
Yes, because I’m sure there are thousands of BNP voters here on C&F. :roll:
The very fact that there are elections here in the UK, that the BNP is free to exist, and that people are free to vote for them if they so wish, is what the fighting was all about, neh?
Celebrations for VE day here in the UK were rather small. There’s to be a bigger “Day of National Remembrance” on 10th July, and HM the Queen will be attending that one (unlike Sunday’s parade, where the Prince of Wales laid the wreath at the Cenotaph).
There are ceremonies being planned for VJ day too, in August.
My brother (auxillary Legion member), my sister and I marched in the parade and service with the Canadian Legion honouring our father and uncles (all at Dieppe)..in a small town..Kingsville outside of Windsor yesterday. I’m veteran not of WWII, served seven years in the Canadian Army with peace keeping duties in Cyprus, Gaza Strip (7 days war) and UN observation (Geneva Convention) in Vietnam in 1968.
Kim was marching as a representative of the mothers, daughters and women who were at home duing that war but contributed just as much to the war effort. Our mother worked in the Ford plant in Windsor making Bren Gun carriers as a young woman.
Then the three us, along with other family members and veterans went to the local cemeteries and placed small bouguets on the graves of the veterans there
In Canada it is approximated that 100 veterans of WW II are dying every day now. It won’t be long before any of them will be marching so proudly as they did yesterday.
MarkB
I didn’t say they should be banned or be denied a voice.
But a vote for the BNP is a slap in the face to anyone who fought against facism sixty years ago.
Mukade
My girlfriend’s grandfather was taken prisoner at Dieppe Mark.
My own grandfather was awarded the Military Cross during the invasion of Germany.
It is a shame to lose these guys, won’t see a generation like that again. It was a pretty long march from the War Memorial to the new museum and about 2000 of the old boys walked or rode all the way down Wellington street. They had a good time too. As Paul Martin said in his speech, “… you guys have to be the most undisciplined group of soldiers I’ve ever seen in my life!” Wish I could have been in Apledoorn (sp?) though, that would have been something.
British National Party=Nutbars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party
http://www.bnp.org.uk/
In Norfolk the newscast said, “…parades to celebrate the end of WWII”.
I died of outrage.
No kidding.
The Bataan memorial is an eye-opening place. We also camped out on Corregidor. So many grisly things there, to be discovered, even at that time, some 40-50 years after the fact.