Remembrance Sunday
 

As we have quite a number of the ' younger generation ' posting on here I wondered how relevant, if at all, Remembrance Sunday is to you.

I have been prompted to post after walking through the University of Liverpool Campus today and the only other person out of the hundreds I passed who was also wearing a poppy was a white haired old gentleman who nodded and smiled to me as I passed.

It reminded me of the last few lines of the famous poem.....



In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing , fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.


Written on the battlefield by
Lieutenant Colonel Johm Mc Crae M.D. 1872 - 1918
Canadian Army ( Front Line Surgeon Ypres 1915 )

I always wear a poppy and again I shall be filming in Birdcage walk as the troops leave wellington barracks as I have done for many Years.

I don`t think any one should forget the sacrifice that so many made for us all those years ago.

I have the greatest respect for those people.

Lest we forget.

I only hope that on Saturday everyone pays there respect at 11 o`clcock by being silent for two minuets.

I'm away with the TA this weekend so i hope we will do something to remember the day.

I'm sure you will :)

I'll be remembering, and I'll be making sure the kids understand what it means as well.

Shouldn't be too hard, Byron is well and truly getting into his military history. We played Top Trumps a lot last weekend and his cards were warships :)

He knows them inside out!

Rockhopper,

Is there a rule about wearing poppies if you are in uniform?

There was a recruitment van in our local town yesterday, staffed by about six or seven soldiers and not one was wearing a poppy.

I'm really not sure about wearing poppies. I'm taking one with my just in case though! There is nothing in the papework we have to say we are doing anything special on sunday.

Edit - yes we are allowed to wear them, they should be placed behind the cap badge apparently.

The rules state, unless they've changed in the last couple of years, that you're not allowed to wear a poppy on official parades (because it's not part of the queens uniform), but you may wear one with your uniform on normal duty with permission from the CO.

hth

Totaly Agree 100%

I've been wearing my poppy for the last week on my work jumper, but i dont' transfer it when i leave my jumper at work change in my bike gear for ride home and clothes at home, but i shall be remembering and may even catch the last part of the rememberance march in Chichester to lay the wreath..

Hi Mel
I used to live in Sidlesham nr Selsey and quite often went into Chi for the rememberance. I always found it to be exceptionally tender and beautifully done. The organisation of these things are always spot on. I just think that the youth of today need to be taught - this must never be allowed to happen again. I believe there are only something like 2 - 4 of the original soldiers still alive?? If anyone knows the correct figure, please do correct me.

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.:(