My Grandads Letter

[andy s410c 61]

Good read SM,shows what these men endured to keep the world free from tryanny.The way the world is now looks like it was in vain :realmad: My grandad fought in Italy,he would show his campaign medals to us but he would,nt really talk about it.

[Guest WILF]

Thanks for sharing that pal, very moving and I am sure for you it is very precious.

 

The piss ants that inhabit our country/world today are but pale shadows when compared to the millions of great, brave but ordinary men of that era, men such as your Grandad.

 

I am sure you are very proud of him, and rightly so!

[mart123blue 0]

My Grandad was POW who escaped and spent a year travelling back to England. When he arrived back it was the war was more or less over.

 

Thanks very much for sharing that, as others have said it really puts things in perspective.

[cúagusgiorraí 57]

Thanks for sharing that.

 

I wonder what his feelings were on how Europe began to change in the following decades?

 

just a few wiki pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Grese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Kramer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen-Belsen...centration_camp

 

 

I dont know how the soldiers restrained themselves. It is horrible the pure evil that can come out of mankind.

[ferretville 69]

A letter from the heart how your grandad seen it through his own eyes something im glad i never had to endure . My grandad was at monte casino before d-day began god i take my hat off to all those men and women and the one`s we lost they shall never be forgotten in my eyes. Like andy s410 says i think alot of what they did was in vain just look at the world now its f****d up big time.

[Guest WILF]

Sorry lads, but to say what they did was in vain is a fecking insult..........they did there duty and what was right and that is never in vain.

[Simoman 110]

I am sure you are very proud of him, and rightly so!

 

 

Cheers bud, yes i'm very proud Just moved me when I read it and thought I'd share, thanks for the kind comments

[beddyman 6]

unbelievable reading sm .. you must be so proud ... totall respect bud

[Gav 1,708]

Thanks for sharing that pal, very moving and I am sure for you it is very precious.

 

The piss ants that inhabit our country/world today are but pale shadows when compared to the millions of great, brave but ordinary men of that era, men such as your Grandad.

 

I am sure you are very proud of him, and rightly so!

[Simoman 110]

Thanks for sharing that.

 

I wonder what his feelings were on how Europe began to change in the following decades?

 

just a few wiki pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Grese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Kramer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen-Belsen...centration_camp

 

 

I dont know how the soldiers restrained themselves. It is horrible the pure evil that can come out of mankind.

 

 

Thanks for the links, very interesting

[FJager 0]

Great read Simoman, thankyou for sharing.

[wink hound 0]

thats the kind of history that needs preserving, not these bullshit, it might of happned like this txts i rember from school.

 

your late grandad has my full respect.

 

wink

[Simoman 110]

Thanks again fellas, I'm seeing my nan soon and apparently my grandad kept a photo album of his time during the war so I'll see if I can get hold of it.........

[Bagpuss 0]

I am always in awe of these men who went through such horror in the war, then came home and became parents and grandparents and never let on or moaned about post traumatic stress disorder and compensation.Well at least mine didn't he was a great man who didn't really talk much about the war.

I don't think people like Simonmans Grandad are appreciated or considered enough for what they endured.

thanks for posting that

[Simoman 110]

Cam anyone recommend any good books on the history of WW2?