VE Day - 75 aniversario del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

Hello everyone, I'm Sophie!

Today there is a big celebration in my country. We are celebrating the 75^th anniversary of VE Day. The end of the Second World War. People have street parties and celebrate with food and drink alongside their neighbours, friends and family. The queen also makes a speech.

In this photo with red dots, you can see the bombs that fell on my city Southampton. 

In just 2 nights there were 700 bombs and a lot of buildings were destroyed and people were killed.

In these photos you can see the people of Southampton celebrating VE Day in the past and present.

This is the Itinerary for my street’s celebration today:

There will be a 2-minute silence at 11am to pay respect to and remember the people who died in the war and fought for our country. At 3pm a speech from Winston Churchill, who was the prime minister at the time of the war, will be shown on television. After this, everyone will go outside to their front gardens (in front of their houses) to eat and drink.

There is social distancing because of the virus but all the neighbours will be able to see each other. At 9pm after the queen’s speech everyone will sing a famous song from the war called, “We’ll meet again.”