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Watch as cafe's spectacular VE Day display helps ensure Washington never forgets those who made the ultimate sacrifice
Sunderland Echo
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07/05/2025
A knitting group at a Washington cafe have been decorating Concord to help celebrate VE Day.
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okay and philip have you just asked about what are some of the things that you've been doing
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to recognize ve day so what we've been doing we have a knitting class every tuesday and they've
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been knitting handmade poppies which is behind and they've also done a post box topper with
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the little v memorabilia around it and we're also selling poppies for the british royal legions
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which is all again handmade by our knitters why do you think it's important that eight years only
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remembered days like ve day i think it's important to let the younger generation know the sacrifice
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that these people made um for us not only in the forces but the the land girls the miners and people
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like that that stayed behind to help as well and there's going to be a big day here tomorrow yeah
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what are some of the things taking place tomorrow so we have a little mve day um tomorrow here at
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the coffee shop it's an all-day thing we have you can come dressed up in your 1940s um finery we're
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going to have 1940s music and we'll try our very very best to have the 1940s food just to make a
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little bit more authentic and but it's it's going to be a good laugh yeah
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