Many thanks Stephen,
I think your family experiences sums up the sacrifices made by those family members who have gone before us in ‘recent’ times, and the debt of gratitude we owe to them for the life we are currently able to enjoy. That gratitude can in a little way be acknowledged by a simple ‘Thank you’.
I’m old, and have gone through the decades where you were firmly told off if you didn’t say ‘thank you’.
Sadly, those two important words seem to be lost in our current daily vocabulary, and their use might even be seen as a sign of weakness.
This forum, and many many more by what I can see, suffers from a lack of acknowledgement for advice and help given, so why don’t we make this day a ‘Thank you’ day, and think about getting into the habit of using it again the day after - it really doesn’t hurt!
Kind regards,
Gareth.
p.s. Lancaster bombers:- I had the privilege to be able to stand under the cockpit of one of these many years ago - you need a ladder to get into it. Unbelievable. I had to do some research about the Water Orton district a couple of years ago, and talked to a knowledgeable inhabitant of that area and he had interviewed descendants of those involved in the build and trials, and he informed me that you could loop-the-loop in them!
Blinking heck.