Thanks Grandpa!
Well, Rememberence Day is huge in my family and my wife's family as all four of our grandfathers served in WW2. The photo is of my grandfather, Harold Irvine, on their initial push into Holland to liberate the Dutch people. He served in a British tank division, the 79th Armoured and drove the troop transport in the background. He told me once that the worst part was loading it up with soldiers, hauling arse to the front line and unloading the reinforcements then loading up his modified Sherman with the severely wounded and sometimes dead soldiers to bring them back to the feild hospital and continuing this cycle for days at a time.
I get annoyed when the word "hero" is thrown around i the media today because of men like my grandfather. We (our generation) can't even begin to wrap our minds around the sacrafices these people made. Imagine leaving your pregnant wife and two year old son to go halfway across the world knowing every day may be your last. Boggles the mind really.
Anyhow, thanks grandpa, I'll continue my personal crusade to make sure the world never forgets. RIP.
(Grandpa is the soldier on the left, holding the little boy. My grandma still gets letters to this day from this family)