It hurts to see the generation that won WWII pass, not the least bit because we seem to have forgotten the lessons from their struggle.
In their prime, they too forgot the lessons of their own ancestors struggle.
Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
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#14Somewhat unrelated: I'm hoping to go to Bletchley Park this summer, any recommendations?
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#16It hurts to see the generation that won WWII pass, not the least bit because we seem to have forgotten the lessons from their struggle.
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#17Somewhat unrelated: I'm hoping to go to Bletchley Park this summer, any recommendations?
The main 'Bletchley Park' exhibition is good, but it focuses on the human experience of the code breakers. Head around the corner from the car park to the National Museum of Computing (also on the Bletchley Park site) to see more technical exhibitions: they give proper demonstrations of the machines invented at Bletchley, as well as the oldest working computer in the world (which was computing prime numbers when I visited).
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#18Somewhat unrelated: I'm hoping to go to Bletchley Park this summer, any recommendations?
They have a neat computer history museum there so make time for that too.
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#19It hurts to see the generation that won WWII pass, not the least bit because we seem to have forgotten the lessons from their struggle.
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#20https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Webb_(code_breaker)
From wikipedia:
some tasks performed include registering messages on little cards, which Webb believes totaled 10,000 a day in the whole park, and organizing the cards into shoeboxes according to a strict order so they could be retrieved efficiently when called for.
I suppose times have changed.