Quote Originally Posted by TipperaryBaggie View Post
The Battle of Britain is very close to my heart as I live in a town which encountered many dogfights with the Germans. My parents used to tell me about watching the action from their back garden. We still have Spitfires coming over most days sometimes two abreast. The sound of that Merlin engine is very distinctive and I still go out into the garden to watch them before they head back to Biggin Hill.
While I lived 10 years on the Isle of Wight I was engrossed by the tales of those heroes who kept national socialism from our door steps. My landlady was a child around Biggins hill and I spent hours into the wee hours listening to all her stories of her young adult life watching all this unfold. What marvellous memories I have af that time. The hotell i worked in served as a billet for the allied soldiers before D-Day and often we found items when ever we did renivation work in the hotel.
Not a day goes by when I don't think of these heroes. Not one f u c king day.
And now we face the same tyrants today and are sleep walking into it.