Anniversaries

[poliphilo]

The 70th anniversary of the outbreak of WW2 went by without a great deal of fuss. There were news stories featuring the memories of child evacuees and the BBC is headlining a lightweight drama series about Land Army girls. I guess it's hard to get the tone right when you're commemorating the outbreak of the most terrible war in human history. 

Meanwhile the Beatles are everywhere. This is mainly because of the issue of the remastered versions of their albums, but also I suppose because we're in the season of the 40th anniversary of their break-up. I've no complaints. I love the Beatles.

WW2 and The Beatles- the two most important "events" in 20th century British history: Discuss.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I was born just six years after the end of WW2. It frustrates me sometimes that I missed it by so little. I grew up among memories of the war (I remember how our next door neighbour- who, incidentally, was Thomas Hardy's sister-in-law- told me about the Doodlebugs and how the locals christened our street "Doodlebug Alley" because they followed its course on their flight path into London) but even though it was so close it seemed like ancient history. It seems much closer to me now than it did when I was a child.

As for the Beatles I grew up alongside them. I dismissed the early records as "girls stuff" and really grooved to the later ones.

Poor old Robbie, already history and dismissed as "probably dead"! "The iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy".