>> Afterwards, over a cup of tea, he said to me "This is the first Remembrance
>> event I have ever been invited to, it was lovely and I really appreciated it".
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>> I am gratified but also a little sad about that.
For those of our generation, very much a global minded generation, its difficult to comprehend how this "war thaw" has taken so long. Our parents , however?
>> It is both a time to remember and a time to forget.
Its funny our parents, those of an age directly affected by WW2, seemed to be able to forgive the actions & crimes of the Germans, and not those of the Japanese. My Mother for example, despite the fact she was bombed out of her house, twice, by the Germans, and worked for a family firm that lost its elders in the Holocaust, never hated them, but positively despised the Japanese "for what they did". Right up to the day she died. (mind you with vascular dementia in her last year, she hated everyone)
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