Gone, But Should Never Be Forgotten.

RIP Group Captain John 'Paddy' Hemingway the last of the few now passed.

 

RIP to him and all the others. God bless you all.

 

Another little waypoint of WWII passing out of living memory. While l don't have personal memory of the war, my father and grandfather did. l feel like l'm part of the last generation to whom it has any meaning, really. My sons are decent enough blokes but they have a very different perspective on this to me. l'm sure there are others on here who could say the same....

 

RIP Group Captain John 'Paddy' Hemingway Thankyou for all you did to keep us safe. Now you can sit on the right hand of God our father and wait for the rest of us to join you.

 

When one thinks about what the vapid 21-year-olds are into today, one can only be in awe of what these young men and women did for us. True, there are good youngsters in our respective militaries today, but in that day, so many more enthusiastically answered the call. Bless him and those who went before him.

My father was a paratrooper. 82nd Airborne. On June 6, 1944, at age 19, he jumped out of an airplane, into the dark, over enemy territory.

Balls

 

Now and then, when I am having a bad day I pick up my grandfathers RAF log book and see what he was up to on that day in history. Certainly puts things into perspective.

With the current social media driven geopolitics, I wonder if we would have the ability to sacrifice time and opinions enough to come together in the way that their generation did.