11AM silence
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Observed it as I always do and will be at the Rememberance Sunday service at the local memorial. We do owe are freedom and the life we have today to those who died protecting are way of life and values. This has to be remembered always with nothing allowed to stop it. Those men and women died for us and our children to forget them is to dishonour the sacrifice they made.
Ive mentioned lots of times on here before that my Mum was born five months after her Dad was killed in Normandy aged twenty two.
To us Oswaldtwistle War memorial is his grave. Long after Mum and myself aren't here to do so, I hope my brother's children will still lay a wreath there for him. and for the other 1.3 million other service men and women who gave their lives for us.
To us Oswaldtwistle War memorial is his grave. Long after Mum and myself aren't here to do so, I hope my brother's children will still lay a wreath there for him. and for the other 1.3 million other service men and women who gave their lives for us.
i had sky news on .and i swear they said the 2 minuets was up before it realy was ,,everybody was still stood with their heads bowed.. i thought it was a bit insensitive
Maybe she was a bit not quite with it, you know?
BBC Breakfast News this morning were asking whether the young knew what the poppy signified. They spoke to one gormless black woman in her twenties who thought that it might have something to do with the Labour Party. There were other examples of ignorance but that was the most glaringly ludicrous and, somehow, insulting.
The other question which seemed to take up quite a bit of air time was which side should women wear their poppy on. I also noticed that one Blackpool School, St. George's of all places, had a very poorly secured Union Flag flying at Half Mast.
I am probably getting old and crotchety but once of a day nobody would have thought to ask how these things were done correctly, everybody knew. What is the matter with people these days? It is all very well expecting new citizens to sit Britishness examinations, I rather fancy that a large proportion of the indigenous population could also do with a refresher course.
The other question which seemed to take up quite a bit of air time was which side should women wear their poppy on. I also noticed that one Blackpool School, St. George's of all places, had a very poorly secured Union Flag flying at Half Mast.
I am probably getting old and crotchety but once of a day nobody would have thought to ask how these things were done correctly, everybody knew. What is the matter with people these days? It is all very well expecting new citizens to sit Britishness examinations, I rather fancy that a large proportion of the indigenous population could also do with a refresher course.
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On Sunday morning my daughter will be leading her Brownies on the Remembrance Sunday church parade. They march with the other organizations, guides, scouts etc. and all the old (and not so old) men from the British Legion. After the service they stand at the War Memorial in the churchyard and The Last Post is played. Every year the brownies look at my daughter and say, "Why are you crying, Brown Owl?"
I'll be at home watching the wreath-laying on TV and I'll shed a tear too. We owe them so much and 2 minutes, today and on Sunday, is so little to ask.
I'll be at home watching the wreath-laying on TV and I'll shed a tear too. We owe them so much and 2 minutes, today and on Sunday, is so little to ask.
Acrylic-bob said:
Traditonally men should wear poppies/buttonholes/medals on the left side, and for women it should be the right.
All a bit daft, but it goes back to when a man had to defend himself, and most people being right handed, the sword was kept on the left side for eswiftness of movement. Centuries later that's why men's and women's clothes still fasten the opposite way from each other.
We had the 2 minutes silence in our department at work today, it was observed by most, it really irritates me when the younger members of staff just continue with their duties, I dont think its a total lack of respect just that they dont know why its done, anyway a few got an education today.
Maybe it needs drilled into them more at school and home. My daughter understands why we have it and she is 9. What chance would there be if she and others like her didnt know or couldnt be bothered with it. They should pride themselves on knowing why we have this day and what would have been if the selfless ones had not stood up to be counted.
I was getting ready for work at 11am and even stopped shaving.
On Sunday I'll be at the front of St John Anbulance, even though I'm working till 02:00 Sunday morning. I hope that there is a good turn out both in town and in Oak Hill for the wreath laying after the Church Service at St James.
Think that some people are being taught about what has happen in the two world wars with the events that are happening around the world now, let us hope that they will give the respect a bit more thought next year.
Cant quite recall at mo who started thread and commented about an old dear (not sure now who replied either now) butr maybe she "in her own world" and not knowingly making a noise in the 2 minute silence.
On Sunday I'll be at the front of St John Anbulance, even though I'm working till 02:00 Sunday morning. I hope that there is a good turn out both in town and in Oak Hill for the wreath laying after the Church Service at St James.
Think that some people are being taught about what has happen in the two world wars with the events that are happening around the world now, let us hope that they will give the respect a bit more thought next year.
Cant quite recall at mo who started thread and commented about an old dear (not sure now who replied either now) butr maybe she "in her own world" and not knowingly making a noise in the 2 minute silence.