Remembrance

Dark88 said:
I bet the silly little boy thought he was 'the man' at the time.
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i bet he din;t even realise what he was peeing on tbh.

Hoe many stories have we heard on here of people peeing in a wardrobe thinking it was the lav?
 
Am shot after today, a mile march at the front of the parade, up hill, service at the cenotaph and then a mile march back but always happy to do it tbh. I play for a brass band and we are out every year, makes you feel proud to see how many of our village come out for it as well.
 
I go to our local Cenotaph in Fenton every year and it was nice to see a record turn out today (about 400).
I went once when there was only 10 people there.
 
Lest we forget.

RIP to all that have served their country and paid the ultimate price.


And anyone who hasn't, go do a trip in France and Belgium of the massive graveyards and monuments with name after name of the missing. It puts the scale of war into prospective.
 
Kitchster_uk said:
Am shot after today, a mile march at the front of the parade, up hill, service at the cenotaph and then a mile march back but always happy to do it tbh. I play for a brass band and we are out every year, makes you feel proud to see how many of our village come out for it as well.
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I did the rememberence sunday march once, problem is I can't stand still for more than about 10 minutes without feeling sick so to my shame I got to the point just before and had to step out and go see a medic.:( In my defence it was that or puke and or faint on the floor, which probably wouldn't have gone down very well...:p
 
I like seeing any mass military parades and i don't think our country has enough of them. I went to 2 services every year when i was a wee air cadet we were allowed to carry .22 rifles before 9/11 that was always a highlight.

Do the Americans do this or is it a British thing?
 
Mr. Anderson said:
I like seeing any mass military parades and i don't think our country has enough of them. I went to 2 services every year when i was a wee air cadet we were allowed to carry .22 rifles before 9/11 that was always a highlight.

Do the Americans do this or is it a British thing?
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If I'm right the Americans have Vetrans Day.

EDIT linky : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day
 
Lest we forget.

Have been to Ypres and seen the mass graves there, really puts it into perspective. If you see/hear a number, you don't think much of it, but when you see all the headstones, it hits you.
 
The store I work in halted for two minutes today at 11am. I'm sad to say that some people carried on talking without thought, despite the fact that every member of staff was standing together in silence with customers.

Never forget.
 
Being in Plymouth me and a friend went up to the Hoe for the service today. It was excellent there must have been a good few thousand people there, mixture of ages, and of course the various military groups around Plymouth - lots with girlfriends/families too.
 
I went to Church (something that seems to be becoming a more regular feature in my life) for the Remembrance Service today.

Our Rector was born in Germany. German Rector leading an English Remembrance service. Now that's forgiveness.

We will remember them.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Lest we forget.

RIP to all that have served their country and paid the ultimate price.


And anyone who hasn't, go do a trip in France and Belgium of the massive graveyards and monuments with name after name of the missing. It puts the scale of war into prospective.
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Amen to that.

I really had a lump in my throat when I first went there, and still get one every time. I drive past Verdun and a lot of the trenched battled fields on my way to my grandmother and uncle's homes in East of France - I often stop off to pay my respects when I go there. It's always rather harrowing seeing all the names, and nameless graves after graves.
 
GingerNinja1989 said:
It seems quite sad that as I was sat in a busy restaurant in town today there was only one other person besides myself wearing a poppy.

I have huge respect for our solders, past and present.
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That is very sad and I also have massive respect for our soldiers, if it were not for them and the RAF who knows how things would have turned out.

My grandad (rip) used to be an engineer working on spitfire/lancaster engines, once he had finished working on a plane they would make him go up with the pilot so that any attempts at sabotage would end in his life being taken too, he always used to say there would be a soldier with him watching him fully armed 24/7.

Imagine working in those conditions, completely understandable though.
 
GingerNinja1989 said:
It seems quite sad that as I was sat in a busy restaurant in town today there was only one other person besides myself wearing a poppy.

I have huge respect for our solders, past and present.
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I give the donation but don't display the poppy*, as a lot of people do.




*except for the one on the cross that i put on my granddads grave every year.
 
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