Comments on: Intruding memories http://trenchfever.wordpress.com/2006/04/11/intruding-memories/ War - what _is_ it good for? Mon, 13 May 2013 15:46:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dan http://trenchfever.wordpress.com/2006/04/11/intruding-memories/#comment-131 Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:22:42 +0000 https://trenchfever.wordpress.com/2006/04/11/intruding-memories/#comment-131 Indeed. Leslie ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson, ‘This is Worth Fighting For’ (don’t know date, but early WW2, I think) contains the line: ‘Didn’t my folks before me/Fight for this land before I was born’.
Carroll Gibbons, ‘Mr Brown of London Town’: ‘He’d got his wife, he’d got his kids, and things were right as rain/Until the Godforsaken Hun got busy once again…’

And I think there’s probably something very interesting to be done on the local war memorials as sites for rituals during the Second World War.

]]> By: George Simmers http://trenchfever.wordpress.com/2006/04/11/intruding-memories/#comment-129 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:45:40 +0000 https://trenchfever.wordpress.com/2006/04/11/intruding-memories/#comment-129 Have you thought about the WW1/WW2 interplay in other popular media than film?
I’m thinking of the Bud Flanagan song which goes something like: “If a white-haired lady says How’s your father, she’ll be Mademoiselle from Armentieres.” I’ll bet there were others with a similar theme.

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