Old Geezers
I was on a tube platform not long ago, trying to get to MB for a meeting. Tube was delayed, and this old bloke came up to me and asked if I knew what the hold-up was. I noticed his tie - AAC wings, so asked him when he was 'in'; turned out he was a glider pilot. He'd been into Normandy on D+1, then done Arnhem, where he was captured. Later did the 'long march', the forced movement of POWs from Poland to Germany in January '45. We both missed the next train, but hey - chances to chat to someone like that are getting fewer. Somehow my own war stories just aren't the same...