I agree with you and found celebration very hard to contemplate given the circumstances throughout the World, the dreadful death toll here and my own grief that I am experiencing presently. I had many mixed feelings too.

However, I couldn’t help but feel that it was important to mark the day for many reasons but not least among them, is the fact that so many people who lived through WW2 and experienced the events firsthand may well not be with us next year, not only given the seriousness of the virus on the elderly population but also given the fact that even the youngest of them are over 80 and many approaching 90 and more, Time isn’t on their side.

I came to the conclusion that it would be churlish in the extreme to deny a celebration for them, and that my own reservations and feelings should be put to one side for the day, for their sake, as none of my generation would be here in the country as it is now, without the effort and sacrifice of our parents and grandparents’ generation.

We must never forget what that generation went through and maybe a little celebration amongst all this sadness and confusion is actually a good thing? A way of getting through it just for a few hours? I don’t know… it’s hard!

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