I think that it is important that you remember the sacrifices of men who died on 6 June 1944. The Normandy landings on those five beaches in France helped bring about the end of Nazi occupation in Western Europe. It was fitting that all the major powers were represented, including Germany, who is now a key western ally. The number of D-Day veterans is getting fewer as time passes, which is why we must remember. It is moving to see the veterans return to France and the reactions of the French people including the French President Emmanuel Macron.

However, I dislike the narrative that is depicted in the media about World War Two. I kept on hearing phrases like " turning point" when journalists talked about D-Day, which smacks of laziness and ignorance. The turning point of World War Two was the Battle of Stalingrad in January 1943.

The war on the Eastern Front was a brutal one between two ideological enemies, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Having invaded Russia in June 1941, Adolph Hitler discovered that the vast country and the extreme weather were just as brutal enemies as the Red Army. It was at Stalingrad, that the Germans met their first major defeat in the European War. An entire army under General von Paulus surrendered to the Russians. The aura of the invincibility that cloaked the German soldier was shattered.

It would have been nice that the D-Day coverage placed the Normandy landings in context. How many children even know that Russia was on the Allied side during that war? The Russia contribution/slash sacrifice has been airbrushed about of the World War Two narrative. Twenty million Russians died during the war. That is nearly half of all the casualties of the entire conflict! D-Day did not happen in isolation, it was part of a larger conflict that engulfed the entire continent.

It would also have been good that we had studio discussions on television about D-Day with historians. Do television producers not think we can focus on men discussing history with a visual aids or dramatic reconstruction?There is a complacency and total lack of imagination that goes with the coverage of these anniversaries.

Next year will make the 75th anniversary of the end of the war. I hope that remember the sacrifice of the fallen. We also should not afraid to debate and discuss the war.