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Not sure what one looks like so thought I would ask ☺ Sorry for the crappy photo

In the 60's we went on holiday to Austria. While driving through Germany we parked up at a stop on the Autobahn, this large chap wandered over and inspected the GB plates on our car. He turned to my Dad and said "You were in war?" "I was in war" Reached over to pop the boot of the car next to ours to reveal a case of beer. "Now we friends" he went on. "We drink". And they did. That was the only time I remember the war being mentioned.

See, now I would have thought a football reference was referring to the 66 World Cup, which they are forever harping on about (and it's getting boring) and not WW2. A bit ironic really that the inability to forget about the war is now almost exclusively the preserve of those with no experience. The wife's late uncle was on the Eastern front, my father got out of St. Nazaire, a fortnight after Dunkirk before going to the Far East and being a POW on the railway. They got on like a house on fire when they met. No axes to grind, despite one having half his jaw blown off and the other never being able to walk properly again. They were both happy to forget the past.

Another one cracked out of the slab ,looked a few times but ......... Swapped it a couple of weeks ago ,but sure i will eventually find a really nice one. Not easy to find that are decent but 1869 thats better than a washer