The eighth of May is the eightieth anniversary of the Victory in Europe. Plans for the seventy-fifth anniversary in 2020 were largely cancelled and the anniversary passed in the stillness of the Covid lockdown. There are few people alive now who can recall VE-Day clearly, and fewer still who can recall it as members of the armed forces. VE-Day is becoming a matter of retrieving records, rather than personal experience recounted by the living.
