My air cadet unit visit to USAF Alconbury was cancelled the morning we were supposed to go in 1969. It was flippin cold and we went to the Shuttleworth Collection instead......I'm still "harrumphing" exactly 52 years later.....
You only have to listen to the intro music to realise how far we have come and how far we have fallen. I wasn't even alive when this was made but we have lost something, turned in on ourselves a fractured and insular people. Where are the old ladies on the bus who would chat and gossip with the rain still dripping from their coats. Everyone is silent now. Locked in their heads and afraid to be set free.
You two David's need to calm down, it's not that bad ahahaha- times change, the young arent gonna hold onto the ways of the old, and that'll be the same for the next generation and the next and the next
@@mattc3991 yes, but sadly some the ‘young folk’ today have little or no respect for the very country they live in. Like the secondary school children in London burning the union flag that was flown at their school.
@@Jimmythefish577 every generation has that, it's not about being "young folk" it's about having a distain for authority (whether you chose to agree with it or disagree is a seperate story). Look at the flappers in the 20s, the hippies in the 60s, the Iraq war protestors. To blame it on the youth is a disservice to what it actually is.
Upper Heyford England 74 to 77 lived in Glory farms an American housing area Bicester, loved it even tho I don't think we were liked by the english community very much and yes I'm a Air Force BRAT
As an Air Cadet in the 70's I went to RAF Little Rissington on annual camp & one of our days out was to visit the 20th TFW & their F111's at RAF Upper Heyford, we were made very welcome & enjoyed some great hospitality courtesy of the USAF, a brilliant day out
I have two friends who were born at the hospital at RAF Mildenhall. Their fathers were Americans and their mother's British. There must have been a lot of "activity" in and around Mildenhall.
We would have been beaten by Hitler but for the Americans. England should never forget the debt that we owe the United States. Sadly there are plenty of young people that have no concept of history and have never even been taught about the two world wars, when America came to our aid.
Rubbish, we beat them back during the Battle of Britain, after which Hitler turned his focus on Russia, who comprehensively drove the Germans all the way back from Stalingrad to Berlin, the Russians were in Berlin long before the Americans, they're the reason hitler shot himself, because they were on his doorstep, basic WW11 history.
