I like cricket, I like sitting on the boundry with a cold beer, nattering with my friends, half an eye on the game, getting burned because I forgot the sun cream. I like listening to heavy metal, and speed metal, and The Streets, and bouncing around in a drunken manner at concerts. I like reading, and writing, and travelling when I can find time, I've been to places all over the world. I like dropping in on others people's blogs and leaving comments, some of the these people are black, some are Jewish. I only have these freedoms, which we all take pretty much for granted, because 60 years ago the finest young men of a generation were conscripted into the Allied armies and threw themselves upon the beaches and landing fields of Normandy. Thankyou one and all. During the coverage of the D-Day commemorations there were a series of very short interviews played on R5 in which school children were asked about D-Day. I found their level of ignorance a bit frightening, so I thought I would ask my own workers. All my current staff are aged 16 - 22. At the lower end, those aged 16 - 18 and taking their GCSE's/A and AS levels, not one of them could really explain what D-Day was, nor could they tell me anything about WW2, it's causes or who fought on which side. They did not know what had happened at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. I asked about the Holocaust, things were a little brighter here, but only just, at least they knew that the Nazi's wanted to eradicate the Jews. I pressed on with more recent events, Suez - nothing, Northern Ireland and The Troubles - nothing, Korea, Vietnam (they had seen war films about this, but couldn't actually explain what was going on), Rwanda (don't think they could find it on a map), Sarajevo, and I would have been happy for either the assasination, the Olympics or our cowardly retreat and the massacre, Yugoslavia, oh dear, this produced the following result.............. "Yugoslavia fell to pieces, one bit called Slavia, and cheese got really expensive." Now to defend these youths, they are all bright, they are all doing very well in their exams, academically there is nothing wrong with them, but they seem to have no interest in the world beyond Ibiza and Ayia Napa. As far as the newspaper headlines that proudly stated "We Must Never Forget Them", well I'm sorry old soldiers, but todays youth has never even heard of you.