May 12, 2020
Crowds gather to celebrate VE Day in Piccadilly Circus in London on May 8, 1945.
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PETER YOUNG – Stiff upper lips as Britain remembers and vows: we’ll meet again (just not for a little bit)
Last week’s commemorations and celebrations in Britain of the landmark 75th anniversary of VE-Day have been described as a joyous demonstration of national pride. May 8, 1945 marked the end of the Second World War in Europe - and being in the coronavirus lockdown did not stop people paying tribute to those who had saved them from the tyranny of Nazi Germany. In the words of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as he urged his fellow countrymen and women to take inspiration from the generation that had won the war, “We are free because of everything they did”.
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