of this commemoration. absolutely, portsmouth is a naval town, i know the people in southampton, i was chancellor of the universityre, they feel a bit, why was it all in portsmouth? we were important as well, and all these other places as well, and all these other places as well, but it had to be somewhere, and there is a d—day museum in portsmouth, it is the home of the navy in a sense, so it made sense to do that. and just a final thought on why we should still be commemorating d—day. why we should still be commemorating d-day. well, i think it did actually mark the end for hitler and what was an absolutely loathsome regime. you know, if you think of the holocaust and the horrors that he caused in europe. and it marked as well, you know, the pulling together of so many nations. i guess the big nations, america, the uk, canada, the big invasion force, but in amongst them were pole, czech, the free french fighting there, all the nations were there, and you can see that from all the heads of state to have come to this thing, and that pulling together in the face of a really common, ghastly threat is an important th