Not sure how many men are still alive from Armistice day, but it's become much more than a remembrance of the 11th hour 11th day 11th month.
After the second world war Armistice day was renamed Remembrance Day and is now set asside in respect of those fallen not only in WW1, but also in all conflicts since.

Tomorrow my eldest nephew (12) is parading with his sea cadet unit... and it's good to know that at least the younger members of MY family are still wanting to mark this occassion. I shall be going along also.

That's lovely to hear, you must be very proud of him. :)

On 4 August 2004 there was a ceremony honouring the remaining British WW1 veterans still alive. 23 in England. The four who were at the ceremony were 108, 106, 104, 103. The latter walked with help to lay a wreath at the cenotaph. I don't know how many have passed away since.

But rememberance day is not just for WW1 - it is for all wars since. When you look into it, the amount of armed conflict us Brits have been involved with is astonishing:

World War I (1914–1918)
Easter Rising (1916)
Russian Civil War (1918–1922)
Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)
Anglo-Irish War (1919–1921)
The Pacific War (1937–1945)
World War II (1939–1945)
Anglo-Iraqi War (1941)
Greek Civil War (1941–1949)
Malayan Emergency (1948–1960)
Korean War (1950–1953)
Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960)
Cyprus Emergency (1955–1959)
Suez Crisis (1956)
Brunei Uprising (1962)
Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation (1962–1966)
Aden Emergency (1963–1967)
Northern Ireland Troubles (1969-mid 1990s)
Falklands War (1982)
The First Gulf War (1990–1991)
The Bosnian War (1995–1996)
The Kosovo War (1999)
Sierra Leone Civil War (2000)
The Afghanistan War (2001–Present)
Iraq War and Iraqi insurgency (2003–Present)

My Father-in-Law was in the RAMC in the Malayan Emergency and only talks about it very occasionally. Even after all this time he is still traumatised by what he saw.

War. Good for nothing.

Too rite Bob they sacrificed, so drugies can steal from their own family, so the country can fill up with scroungers, dole wallers can stand in the pub and brag how the dole pays them to do nothing!
so as youths who smash cars and property and stand outside shops and spit, intimidate , old people as they pass by, and so on and so on and so on

some sacrifce that!


Mav says

get all the scum and drag them around poppy fields!


















with a tractor















by their necks
!!

now thats justice for the sacrifice !


"keep it real"

wear with pride.

Spot on Mav!

For the last few years my youngest now 9 has always been involved with rememberance day through school, which is nice to see, as the older 2 didn't get taught anything with respect to learning about poppy day when they were at school.

my dad collects 86. fit as a fiddle only just stopped work full time a diffrent breed .he was in burma .only think that bugs me is all who gave there lives . just for scum blair to open the country up to every man . while my dad is taxed on his pension.

I think i heard on the News the other day that they have all sadly passed on.
Such a shame that children today are taught so little about such major events that occured in the 20th century.
I was a bit surprised while out today, just how few people (young and old) were not wearing a poppie. One of this countries most important charities. That money goes to help so many veterans, of old conflicts and new.:(