Quiet celebration

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Tony,

Same here, not in the news in The Netherlands - to my surprise. Usually there is a (short) news item and often they would air a war movie like The Longest Day.

Maybe it is because the 70th anniversary of Market Garden and the liberation of the Netherlands were so extensively covered during the past few months.

I know in France they don't forget, if only to keep the revenue stream from tourists going

Hanno

[Little Jo]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Tony,

Same here, not in the news in The Netherlands - to my surprise. Usually there is a (short) news item and often they would air a war movie like The Longest Day.

Maybe it is because the 70th anniversary of Market Garden and the liberation of the Netherlands were so extensively covered during the past few months.

I know in France they don't forget, if only to keep the revenue stream from tourists going

Hanno

Hi Hanno

Good Point, you can over do it with to much coverage on TV and newspapers people stop looking and listening. We had the same problem with the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC Gallipoli landings.

Cheers

Tony

[Private_collector]

I was bitterly disappointed that, once again, there was nothing on the television and radio news reports here in Aus. We have time to make news from insignificant rubbish, but not for the single biggest human endeavour in the history of the world. I made a point of phoning the veteran I know, just to say Thankyou. Put the poor old dear in tears, it did. He thought no-one had remembered.

[Keith Webb]

I attended a Bomber Command memorial service on Sunday and D-Day was definitely remembered as part of the service at the Melbourne Shrine.
A Channel 9 Cameraman was despatched to cover but some officious person would not let him in due to lacking a media pass. What an ASS.

There was a flyover of Harvards, Winjeel and CT4s in one formation and slightly later another formation of CT4s also flew over in very blustery wintry conditions.

[malcolm erik bogaert]

just a short mention here on BBC TV news...although the brilliant new channel FORCES TV did show a documentary..cheers malcolm

[Little Jo]

Hi Hanno, Keith Malcolm and Tony

Thank you for your comments - But all I can say is:

" LEST WE FORGET "

Cheers

Tony

[Grant Bowker]

Either I missed it or there wasn't much coverage in Canada, perhaps because it wasn't a multiple of 5 or 10 years since the event.