Thanks Yanks indeed, from the bottom of my heart. And I'm sorry there will always be a few clever dicks who drag their current obsessions into this kind of thread, pleae ignore them.
    I was there, in spirit(well, I was in my mother's womb).My dad, due to an an extremely un-life-threatening injury, D-day dodged quietly in Kent (though there were a few doodle-bugs and such about).. My grandfathers did things (or had things done to them) in the previous unpleasantness that shocked them so much they never talked about it.
    Britain was in deep doo-doo then(as was the world). I thank those Americans deeply who saw what was happening and swung the waverers round, so that you did come and join in. It doesnt bear thinking about, what might have happened if you all had not been overpaid, oversexed and over here. We needed you. Thanks very very much.