How many on here take a bit of time at remembrance Sunday to think about those that have given life or become injured for their country , I'm not asking if people agree with any conflict or actions just the end results. |
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"I always go along unless able to. As do my children and they know why too.
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Good that younger people are starring to know what its about ,the shame is all the recent reasons that its relevant as well |
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As youngster in the Army Cadets I was fortunate enough to take part in the ceremony.
While I don't attend these days, the men and women that have given there lives or returned injured deserve that respect so I always stop and observe.
This year I hope as a nation we can all do this on 11/11 and mark the centenary that the Great War ended.
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I remember my friends all the time ,just seems the reasons for remembrance Sunday have been diluted and some people just don't want to know or think its only about one war not as it is now all and every conflict. |
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Never missed a Remembrance Day my entire life.
Attended services every year as a child with my family.
While serving in the RAF, then with the ATC band.
Proud to have been asked this year to be the RBL standard bearer |
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"Yes, and to remember those innocent people murdered after their country was invaded and illegally occupied, always good to remember the fallen "
Which one? There’s been a fair few. |
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"Yes, and to remember those innocent people murdered after their country was invaded and illegally occupied, always good to remember the fallen
Which one? There’s been a fair few. "
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"Yes, and to remember those innocent people murdered after their country was invaded and illegally occupied, always good to remember the fallen
Which one? There’s been a fair few. don't take the bait!!!"
I’m just interested. It doesn’t happen often, I’ve helped occupy a few places, I was just wondering if he doesn’t like me specifically or just soldiers in general.
Or maybe Serbs, Russians, Argentinians ... maybe Cossacks  |
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My Dad, both his brothers and my Mum all served during WW2. Dad saw active service as a young teenager in Africa and Italy, survived and was demobbed in 1948.
He absolutely insisted he fought for our freedom so the least I can do is stand quietly and respect what he went through and consequently suffered all of his life.
My maternal father suffered severe 'shell shock' after WW1 and was berated and completely misunderstood for it. He would leave the house and forget where he was, was aggressive, violent and would weep bitterly for hours.
Nobody called it PTSD in those days.
I served, and married a squaddie in 1982 during the Falklands War and we lost friends to that conflict and during our time in NI.
I remember them. |
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A mixed response as always ,I know some who cant parade as too many bad memories but we always meet up ,lost my dad just over a year ago and he was OC of his unit and I'm carrying their colours this year same regiment I was in so very close to me in more ways
We will remember them ! |
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With proud thanks giving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
We will remember them.
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