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  • 09/05/2025
In the Advertiser's weekly voxpop we asked why is it important to remember VE Day?
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00:00People who gave their lives and things like that, and all the camaraderie and things like that, yeah.
00:15Because all the men and women had died, so that we could live.
00:22In the factory, when the factory was bombed.
00:27The Ransom and Miles factory, Albert's sister Estevani was killed in the bombing there, wasn't she?
00:35Yeah.
00:36And they never found a body, no.
00:40But yeah.
00:41But Albert, tell them what they did a few years ago, the road, didn't they?
00:45They named a road, didn't they, after her?
00:47Yeah, they've made a road, a little road, yeah.
00:50And it's called, it's Estevani Road, isn't it?
00:54Yeah.
00:55And we've come here today to remember her, yeah, for that, haven't we?
00:59Yeah.
01:00I think because of the generations gone by, really, and you know, it's emotional to sort of think about it, isn't it, Albert?
01:06Yeah, she was only 19.
01:09So you don't forget these things, do you?
01:13And there's no grave to go and put flowers on.
01:18No.
01:19Because there's nothing.
01:22The bomb actually hit her.
01:24Hmm.
01:25Because they didn't find her, but...
01:28Yeah.
01:29Because of Albert, the story has lived on.
01:31Yeah.
01:32I can't forget.
01:34I think it's important because we should remember the sacrifice that people made.
01:39The sacrifices they made during the war, and also those who died in action.
01:44That was a sacrifice, and I think it's important to remember that.
01:47I'm researching a member of my family at the moment, who died flying his Spitfire over northern France, and so I remember him particularly at this point in time.
01:59Sacrifices?
02:00Yeah, all the sacrifices, all the soldiers and that.
02:02They went through, weren't they?
02:03To keep us free.
02:04I think I could.
02:05Well, I've got grandparents.
02:07One served out in Africa, one served out in Italy, back in the war, and that, and the sacrifices they made.
02:17The people who we've lost during the war, right, and because of the war that went off between England and Germany,
02:28and in my opinion, the war was a terrible thing.
02:36And the fact is, it cost people's lives, and we cannot bring them back when they die.
02:47And that's the devastation, but it's better to remember these people who put their lives on the line during the war.
02:58You know, and fighting for a good cause to bring us into peace in our time.
03:07Okay?
03:08It's a very special day today, 80 years ago.
03:11Many people sacrificed their lives to save our freedom, so we need to remember those people that lost their lives all over the Commonwealth and the United States and Russia.
03:22So we're very grateful that we're having a commemoration at 7 o'clock in front of the town hall.
03:27I put a few flags out on display to remember all the people who sacrificed their lives for our freedom.
03:33and we hope to see more about that.
03:34All right, great犯.
03:35All right, great犯.
03:41Let's go there.

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