Remembrance

[Michael Booth 7,364]

My family and I always respect those who died for us in war, wherever we are. It's good to see so many others around you doing the same. At the same time, it angers me so much to see people, who are mostly younger people, ignoring it.

I fear that in a few years time people won't pay their respects as they do today. My father-in-law survived two explosions in WW2 and suffered with his sight and hearing. I also lost my uncle at the beginning of the war, which most of you know as I

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[mercurydancer 1,104]

Michaelbooth

Some of the young did what I did. They joined the services. There was a snotty lad with an attitude whose mother was a barmaid at my local hostelry. He joined the Navy and I complimented him on his turnout on Remembrance Day. Immaculate and proud. There will always be those who go after us. It is our duty to tell them what such duty involves*

*Although most of my army duty was in Germany, and lots of beer, sausages and staring at an army which never did invade.

[freckles 196]

Afternoon one an all,Might be teaching your granny to suck eggs here but did folk know that Notts County Council have a vitual memorial site celebrating the lives of all Notts lads that died as a result war ?

[FLY2 10,108]

Just been to pay my lottery. I'd somehow managed to win £13 on Thunderball last week. The assistant and other customers looked aghast as I put it in the collecting box and took two poppies, and a little wooden cross. 

I turned around and said that it all helps, and it's no skin off my nose. I hope in some small way they followed suit.

 

[catfan 14,793]

I take my hat off to you FLY !

[Jill Sparrow 10,307]

#79

 

Good for you, FLY2! I've not seen any poppies yet this year but I'll be sure to purchase and wear one. I'd feel guilty if I didn't remember the 5 members of my family whose lives were cut short by war, along with millions of others.

[FLY2 10,108]

I always feel SOooo proud wearing mine. I'd gladly wear it all year round if possible. 

[Jill Sparrow 10,307]

I also remember my great uncle Horace who, at home in Beeston on leave when the Armistice was declared, stuffed his Army uniform down a rabbit hole and declared that he wouldn't be returning to his unit! The military police had other ideas! There's one in every family!  

[Guest]

Its not even the 'ideal' that i remember the fallen,as it stands Germany lost the war but won the battle...look at them now!..and we rationed whilst we fed them!!

I wear a poppy because individual men and women stood up and made the ultimate sacrifice.Brave they were- they must have suffered fear,fright,loneliness and uncertainty.

Lovely gesture Fly..well done.

[carni 10,094]

We bought two poppies today, I attached one to each of our coats. Between now and 11th Nov; we will probably purchase another three or four each, depending on which coat we are wearing. Over the following weeks when going out, as I discover them, I remove them. We never transfer a poppy from one coat to another. It is a small price to pay to say thank you to the men who gave so much for us. 

[NewBasfordlad 3,599]

As always I will be with my old comrades association to me its only right and proper.

[FLY2 10,108]

So FIFA are refusing to let the English and Scottish players wear a poppy on their shirts for the forthcoming international match. 

Just tell them to BOLLOCK5. Who the hell do they think they are. Jumped up little prima donnas. 

Its not advertising or political, it's a gesture of remembering ALL who perished in wars over the last century. 

 

[NewBasfordlad 3,599]

You must remember Fly we have whopped it up most of em at some time or another

[FLY2 10,108]

Yes, and its high time that they also realised that we rescued most of them too. Ungrateful weasels !

[Guest]

Eaten apples soon forgotten.

[Hubris 0]

I said where I came in that Glenn Miller played a concert at Wycombe Abbey (Which was a girl's school.. ands very attractive they all looked in their 'Outdoor Uniform' of blue velvet hooded capes)

It may have been there where he played on despite air raids, or that may be a myth.

 

Anyway, I always wear a Poppy.  I think it is remembrance of all of the horror and waste of war.  It wasn't just the Brits, or even the 'enemy' who died in combat. It was families, communities ewtc., who were either killed in war or suffered the consequences.  It always had results far beyond those who died fighting.  It still does.

 

Also, I'm a socialist, but I won't let the right wing opportunists hi jack my symbols.  It's not their poppy.

 

Hubris

 

[freckles 196]

3 years ago hubby and I went on a mini cruise for his 70th we went on a shore trip to visit Ypes ,the Menim Gate and Tyne Cot cemetery and while in the cemetery we noticed the headstone of a young jewish man (it had the stones on top) He was just 21 when killed ,I took a photo and when we got home I started to trace him (on ancestry ) as there is quite a lot of info on the headstone so it wasn't too difficult,he and his family were tailors from London anyway to cut a long story short I have been in contact (through ancestry ) with his 3x great nephews wife they were moved to see the photo of his headstone.Hubby and I are going on a coach trip in May next year we will be visiting Tyne Cot again and they have asked us to put a stone on from them,I have a stone that I picked up from the Mall in Washington DC so I thought it appropriate that I use that.

I wear my little ceramic poppy all year round I brought it in Ypes,the British Legion poppy shop on-line sell some really nice things too.

[Guest]

Smashing post Freckles!

[FLY2 10,108]

After a Rhine cruise a few years ago, we stopped at the Menin Gate for the Last Post. There was a celebrity in our midst, and it was none other than Harry Patch. One of the last WW1 'Tommies' still alive. 

[Jill Sparrow 10,307]

#94

 

Wonderful chap, Mr Patch! Much enjoyed the documentaries about The Last Tommy, especially the irrepressible Arthur Halestrap. 

[freckles 196]

I forgot to add that the family now live in Chicago so its highly unlikely that they will ever be able to see it.

 

 

[Guest]

I bought an additional poppy this year to remember a man on NS ,who last year in a remarkably kind gesture - traced a Grand Uncle of mine who perished days from the wars end,storming a machine gun nest across a river.

Mercury Dancer,who himself has suffered parental loss- i salute you and all the fallen in war and battle.

[catfan 14,793]

Well  said young 'un !

[broxtowelad 175]

https://plus.google.com/+Forces-war-recordsCoUk

Here's where you can put a memory of a relative or friend.

[albert smith 803]

This piece of music  is well known to all particularly at this time of year but I think this young lady's rendering of it is very moving & unusual.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/NqHx1CDRQkc?rel=0