D Day commemoration ideas for Scouts

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[EltonFrog]

Invade France?

 

[TissoT]

Vist to a War museum.. With corn beef/spam sandwiches for lunch

 

[stephec]

Well done if you do it.

A few years ago when my lad was a scout his leader told me that he'd been told from above there was to be no official remembrance day parade, fair play to him though he still went ahead on his own and organised one.

 

[Over The Hill]

Around this way (Hampshire) we have lots of army and navy museums and things on. Not sure what is local to you.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I suppose you could do nothing and they have a really crap time; a reminder that if we'd had that kind of poor attitude towards planning ahead back in the 1940s then we'd all be speaking German (or something like that)

 

[stephec]

Have you got a local veterans association, how about meeting up with a few of the old guys if you have?

 

[Beebo]

See if you can find some WWII Pill boxes near you, and arrange a hike between them using their OS coordinates.
This will work on their map skills too.
Or, you could arrange a film night, the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan will give them a good idea.

 

[jayonabike]

Sticking with the film night theme, before showing the first 20 mins of Saving Private Ryan show them the episode (3 I think) of Band of Brothers where the 101st airborne division were dropped behind enemy lines on the night before D Day

 

[snorri]

I think it would be quite appalling to expose impressionable UK youngsters to excerpts from US made war films without also showing films of a more realistic nature depicting UK involvement in WWII.

 

[Tim Hall]

A few years back we did a wartime cooking evening. I found some suitable recipes, either on the web or from some v old books handed down to my mum. Corned beef hash and potato cakes were two. I think we stewed a rabbit too, as an example of how people living outside of a city could augment their rations. I got my parents, who were children during WWII, to come and judge the meals. It gave Dad yet another chance to tell how he hasn't forgiven Hitler for spoiling his 12th birthday. (He was at Scout camp just before war broke out and they came home early, calling in at the baker's to cancel his cake).