Remembrance Day "We Will Remember Them"

Glad to see people still care about this and take a moment out of their lives. I'll be popping down to the parade and service in the City Centre on Sunday.
 
My office did it properly, there was a big meeting in progress and the directors called a halt at about 2 mins to 11. Then put the DAB radio on so we got the chimes from Big Ben at 11, and also went round reminding everyone what day/time it was. :)

Better than my last company, who used to do nothing, and regularly had people chatting right through it. :(
 
Great...so they walk the english away but not the muslims, typical.

Little do they understand this is to remember EVERYONE who has died in war, not just those who have served and 'taken part'

So pathetic it just makes you wonder why people think what they think sometimes...then this happens!
 
It's not disgusting

hilly said:
I adorn my poppy with pride. There is however only a few people wearing them i nwork, which is disgusting.

I'll never forget those who gave up their lives, so that we can live now.

Thank you.
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There's no reason to be upset with people that don't wear a poppy. It doesn't mean that people don't care or aren't remembering those who fought/dies/were invovled or whatever.

All it means is that didn't wear a poppy.

Chill out.
 
Yet again, the Islamic minority cause shame to their rest of their community. Extremist behaviour like this can only serve to alienate the rest of the world to their religion even further. It's such a shame considering that Islam itself really is a peaceable religion at the core (my opinion gained from my own personal study of Islam).
 
At University today I was the only student I saw wearing a poppy, and I only saw one academic wearing a poppy :(.

Two minutes silence didn't seem to happen, though to be fair we had a 10-11 class and then a 11-12 lecture at opposite ends of campus!
 
Tefal said:
Now I'm not normally for this sort of thing but in this case I'd support some back handed bribe to some random African leader to grant them citizenship and deport them there.
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I can't beleive they are allowed to live in a country hey hate... GTFO!

I beleive in tolerance - everybody is allowed their own opinion but this is a totally different ball game. Damn racist religious nuts. Isn't this inciting hatred? Should be deported back to where they came from

- Pea0n
 
mike62 said:
Of course, there are always some scum out there :mad:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ning-Muslim-protesters-mar-Armistice-Day.html

(and, no, I don't read the DM myself).
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How ironic that they are only free to cause such anti-mainstream furore, calling for our soldiers to burn in hell, because of our soldiers who fought and died for those freedoms in this country. :o

Try holding a similar anti-establishment protest in a country they rave about as being 'better' under Islamic law, and see how far that gets you. Yeah. Thought so. While they may not represent the majority (and I'm not naive enough to believe they do), they are the ultimate irony. Protesting about freedom, besmirching democracy, and calling for Islamic rule that would have barred such protest to begin with. Idiots.

Never has 'Send them back' been more appropriate tbh. If they despise our values, and wish to live under a different system, great. They can go and live in Somalia and see how far they get in some backwoods dust bowl with no benefits system.
 
izzy eckerslike said:
You have to remember that they did not 'give' their lives it's rather they had their lives taken from them. When you remember the 1st world war when wave after wave of men were ordered to climb out of the trenches and run at the German machine guns or face being shot by their own officers it makes you realise just how bad things were.
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They WALKED into the machine gun fire, shades of Duke of Wellington era thinking, hence the high casualties.

A disproportionally high number of junior officers were killed due to their very distinctive uniform. After about two years afair, they changed to aviod being a sniper magnet.

Part of the WW1 'rules' were that both sides held fire whilst medics collected the wounded and carried them back to the trenches.
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Don't know where you got that one from. A lot of soldiers died in no-man's land from their wounds because the medics were not able to get to them. Even at night when a lot of medics went out, flares were sent up and snipers were active.

Apart from the 'Christmas day' truce there were informal agreements between opposing soldiers where warnings were given before bombardments or 'show displays' for visiting senior officers. These agreements were usually only active until one of the regiments got rotated.

See Professor Richard Holmes's book 'Tommy' for an exhausting account of the soldier in WW1.

I was in Crete a few years ago and went to the Suda Bay War Cemetry and I was shocked by the number of grave stones with no known identification.

Do we really remember them? Once a year if dead.

If alive and injured we forget them very quickly and they are regarded as a burden by society.
 
simulatorman said:
That is a very polite way to describe them.
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It's low rent trolling and best ignored as such. It's pathetic, but making a big deal out of it just causes more tension. If everyone ignored them then either they'd pack it in or they wouldn't, but we'd all be too busy not caring to care.
 
A sobering Great War statistic was mentioned on the news this evening. It was that just under 1 in 10 men under the age of 45 did not come back home from the war. That is just mind-boggling.
 
I forgot to buy a poppy. But I remembered them. Hearing the Last Post always sets me off.

I never lost any family in the war - but my grandparents lived through it. I now have no grandparents left, and remembrance day seems to be a trigger to their memories.

I went on one of those school battlefields trips as a 14 year old. It moved me. Especially the difference between the huge Allied cemeteries, and the small, dark German cemetery.

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/ypres-salient/cemetery-tyne-cot.htm
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/ypres-salient/cemetery-langemark.htm

izzy eckerslike said:
[my grandfather] would see the look of disbelief on the Germans faces that the British had been forced to run at their machine guns.
Many had tear stained faces and were openly sobbing
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Truly sad :(
 
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