Mephistophilis wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:46 pm
Philulhu wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:27 am
Seeing it now portrayed as history some 30 years later made me stop and think. It can be a sobering moment when you realise what is considered history for some people actually occurred in your lifetime!
Even worse when you get told what happened in some event you distinctly recall or might even have been involved in and it completely differs from your recollection. It's funny how an official version of history can be constructed after the fact.
Yeah. "History is written by the victors."
Mephistophilis wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:41 pm
Mr. Handy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:06 am
Thank you! I know the history because I lived through it, and anything I don't remember, I can look up online.
Me too but it seemed early. Just checking it seems TNG didn't air in the UK until 1990 which probably explains the discrepancy, I'd always thought of it as very early 1990s. Might also explain the frankly dodgy sexual politics.
The original series' sexual politics were even dodgier.
Snapper wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:57 am
I work with a very buff older guy who was a Royal Marines Commando in the Falklands War. Later migrated, needless to say.
He pointed out that when he was a young marine, in the pubs around the RMC base would be these fit, tough, 60-something year old retirees, downing the pints. Those guys were the RMC WWII veterans!
And the gap between WWII and the Falklands is the same as the gap between the Falklands and now.
That is still making me ponder.
It's sad how there are so few WWII vets left today. Few people are around that actually remember, and we'll probably end up making the same mistakes from those days again rather than learn from them.
Philulhu wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:27 am
I took my kids (now all grown up) to the Imperial War Museum in London a number of years ago, and there was an exhibition about events that happened in the UK. This included the 1980
Iranian Embassy Siege which I’d watched live on TV as the SAS stormed the building.
Seeing it now portrayed as history some 30 years later made me stop and think. It can be a sobering moment when you realise what is considered history for some people actually occurred in your lifetime!
I visited the Imperial War Museum a few times during trips to London, and it was always worth seeing. I was around during the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis, but I didn't hear about the details at the time, as I was too little. I do vaguely recall the ensuing oil embargo, with gas lines and odd days and even days (this sort of thing is coming back soon). We were very close to World War Three in 1983, and while I didn't hear about the precipitating events at the time, I could feel the fear of it in the air then. We're so much closer to it now.
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