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Because nobody mentions it!

Why do you feel few care ?

Quite sad really that very few on these threads seem to care anything at all for Remembrance Sunday! I suppose we all have such well cushioned lives these days that hero's of yesteryear or even last year are just an irrelevance. No doubt Christmas and all the jamboree and MONEY will be the talk of the town, but not war veterans. Really really sad. I won't be renewing my sub time come.

Dear stranger pause as you go by,
For here lie young men sent to die,
The years have passed, the grass is green,
The carnage no more can be seen.
But if you dig it will be discovered exactly where these boys are covered.
So stranger pause upon your way, and whisper a prayer for them today.

Pat, so many in your family lost. As far as I know I can't name any relatives we lost in WW1 and only a couple in WW2

Lovely words Pat. I have just been to the short service at memorial to remember OH's 2 great uncles <3

We Shall Keep the Faith
by Moina Michael, November 1918

Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.

We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.

And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.


Remembering my relatives found when doing my tree

WW 1 DEATHS

Bertram James Bywater aged 23 yrs
Herbert Daft aged 26 yrs
Thomas Degville aged 25 yrs
Arthur Leonard Devey aged 19 yrs
John Fletcher aged 24 yrs (brothers died same day)
William Fletcher aged 28 yrs
Charles Henry Mold aged 24 yrs
Arthur Henry Paddock aged 20 yrs
William John Alan Paddock aged 24 yrs
Bernard George Whitehouse 17 yrs
Josiah Allport aged 20 yrs
Richard Bellingham aged 32 yrs
James Henry Bradley aged 23 yrs
John William Hancock aged 27 yrs
Simeon Lloyd aged 20 yrs
William Thomas Lloyd aged 18 yrs
Absalom Price aged 26 yrs
John Joe Tyler aged 24 yrs


There is only one year,1968, when no British serviceman/woman died since WW2.

Remembering all those who died and those wounded both physically and mentally.

WE WILL REMEMBER

Remembering all those who have fallen and also thoughts for all those still serving <3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/remembrance-week BBC set to mark Remembrance Week 2016
Tony Hall, Director-General of the BBC, says: “We’re bringing the commemorations to everybody – with all our services, local, national and global, joining in. It’s really important we continue to remember all those who’ve served our country and the BBC plays a vital role in that.”

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/666185/Battle-of-the-Somme-centenary-poppies-contain-part-of-battlefield-anniversary-charity-RBL The Somme 100 Poppy Pins will all contain a small part of the battlefield.

The RBL has called them a “fitting tribute to every son, brother and father who lost their lives fighting for their country”.

Each poppy will be made from British shell fuses fired during the battle and collected by designer Christopher Bennett, of TMB Art Metal and local farmers. The paint on the red enamel at the centre of each poppy contains earth collected from nine points across the 18-mile British front line.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37780257 This year's Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal is calling on members of the public to recognise younger veterans and serving soldiers.
The charity says people commonly associate Remembrance and the poppy with older, World War Two veterans.
The "rethink Remembrance" campaign will launch with a video installation in London, featuring four videos of young veterans' experiences.
In the charity's videos, World War Two veterans aged between 88 and 97 tell a story of conflict or injury.
But it is later revealed in the videos that the stories are not their own, and actually belong to the younger veterans or service personnel.

Claire Rowcliffe, director of fundraising at the Royal British Legion, said: "Individuals and families from across the generations of our Armed Forces community need the Legion's support, as well as our older veterans.
"When you pin on your poppy, or pause to remember, we're inviting you to rethink Remembrance and who it is you picture when you think of a veteran.
"We hope through our campaign this year we will help people understand who they are supporting when they donate."

They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

http://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/event/7152413-remembrance-in-london

Each year in November, the United Kingdom remembers the men and women who gave their lives in the two World Wars and subsequent conflicts.

11 November is known as Armistice Day, Remembrance Day or Poppy Day. From 2014 until 2018, this day takes on added significance as it marks the centenary of the First World War years.

During the First World War, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare. In many parts of the world, people observe a two-minute silence at 11am on 11 November. Don't miss the special Silence in the Square event in Trafalgar Square led by The Royal British Legion, from 10am until 11.45am.

http://www.itv.com/news/central/2015-11-08/schoolchildren-read-out-their-remembrance-poem-at-leicester-service-remembrance-sunday-bridge-junior-school/
Two schoolchildren who wrote a poem to pay tribute to the country's war dead recited it in front of hundreds of people at today's Remembrance Sunday service at Leicester's War Memorial.


The poem was written by Hafsah Muhammad and Aaliya Radiowala, who are both 10-years-old and attend Bridge Junior School in the city.
'Goodbye' by Hafsah Muhammad and Aaliya Radiowala

My name is George.

I was born in 1891.

Bridge Road School is where I was taught.

Pembroke Street is where I lived.

Nineteen is the age I got married,

To the most beautiful woman in the world.

We shared happy times

Until they were stopped by the Great War.

I fought this war hard and strong.

I carried it on day and night.

The terrifying noise of the battlefield,

The screams of young men dying.

The filthy trenches, the hard conditions,

Lack of sleep, an awful nightmare,

The constant fire of shells and bullets

Finally one had my name...

And now my life has come to an end,

I leave you behind in peace.

For our blood has given you all

A peaceful restful sleep.

Remember us when you shine in glory,

When you hear there are no more cries.

When finally you look up,

And see the bright sun in the skies.

So now I say goodbye to you.

Please look after what you have.

So many have shed their blood for you.

Lost their lives to give life to you.

We will remember <3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34737451

The Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Harry have paid tribute to Britain's fallen soldiers as they opened Westminster Abbey's Field of Remembrance.
The pair spoke to veterans and their families beside the annual display of more than 100,000 small wooden crosses, each with a poppy and personal message.
They honour service personnel who have lost their life since World War One.
The Last Post was played before a two-minute silence and the duke and his grandson planted their own crosses.

When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today

http://www.burmastar.org.uk/memorials/kohima-epitaph/

Pyramids:
M8 motorway Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland
It looks stunning !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLqobNkhN0E

http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/diary-of-the-great-war/diary-of-the-great-war-for-1915/5207-3-november-1915.html#sthash.kRnSGK8x.dpbs


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11963638/Daily-Telegraph-November-3-1915.html

Two of the most senior men in Britain led the news today. Pride of place went to Herbert Asquith’s “speech of most unaccustomed length” as the Telegraph’s leader on page 8 put it, on the war’s progress in the commons, which was reported, alongside Sir Edward Carson's resignation speech and other members critical of the Government's handling on page 9 and reprinted for those brave enough to which to read it all in full on pages 5 and 6.

Rather more succinct was King George V, who sent an Special Order of the Day to his troops complimenting them, reprinted on page 9. Next to this can be found the “authorised version” of his accident whilst visiting them (even though it admitted it is “exactly as stated in the bulletins”) which appears to have been issued to discount gossip that it had been caused in a different manner to that reported.

Also in today’s paper
- Lord Kitchener is going to review the City National Guard, the description of which makes it sound like a precursor of Dad’s Army – page 8

Thank you, Phil and Katie, for organising the thread to have a sticky.