Makes you proud...

[chubsta]

I live between Folkestone and Dover in Kent and we have a memorial nearby to the RAF who flew in the Battle of Britain.

As it is the annual commemoration ceremony I have spent the morning chatting to some of the last surviving pilots who flew and it is a really humbling experience to hear them talk about stuff that they remember as if it was yesterday. Very few lasted more than a few months and they said they all knew they were going to die up there, most of their friends died and sometimes they can't understand why it didn't happen to them, just luck...

As i type this i have a Spitfire and Hurricane doing a display over my house and despite this being an arcade forum I really just felt like putting something up so people remember today what these guys went through, I am not sure I would have had the guts myself...

 

[Nintendo Arcade]

It is amazing mate and very touching and emotional to listen to these old guys stories .
My road was bombed a lot during the war as we have many potential targets in the surrounding area .
And I always take time to talk to the old boy across the road about the difficult times they went through.
It makes me shudder to think if we ever had to go to war again how our kids would cope with the crap they went through .

 

[Alpha1]

Those guys are awesome, I have the utmost respect for them.

 

[Hurray Banana]

Those guys are awesome, I have the utmost respect for them.

couldn't agree more

 

[Bods]

It's an Honor to talk to these guys. Remember chatting to a guy in Petrol Station, he was collecting for poppy apeal, I already had one but put some more money in his tub as well

Very interesting and nice to be able to thank them too