It's Rememberance Sunday tomorrow, for those of you have don't know about the History of this day and it's importance i strongly advise you to spent 5minutes of your life reading here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day

And please, support the royal british leigon and buy a poppy

 

Agree completely!

 

Great point made fella, il be out tomorrow for the heros

 

No greater love hath a man, than this a man who lays down his life for his friends and his country,

will be thinking about all of you tomorrow


Luciano

 

got my poppy today

 

Donated last night mine is infront of me

 

never forgotten

 

Very good post. Keep this at the top of the page

 

100% agree, though ashemd to say i have not managed to get a poppy this year as just been to busy and not seen anywhere to get one, once pop to shops. Anyone know if you can donate online?

 

Same here - only seen a few and had no money on me. Online anyone ?

 

lost the ability to google?!

https://www.secureweb-services.com/RBL/

 

i will be watching tomorrow on tv , the march past at the cenotaph will be a quite time in my house to watch and pay respect to those who went through world wars and recent wars my thoughts with the thousands that never come back

lest we forget


to be quite at 11 for a short while is the least we can do

 

 

Two years ago I finished my 7 month tour of Iraq on Remembrance Day.

I remember the journey back from the airport listening to the Remembrance Day Parade in the minibus. I don't think a word was spoken amongst us for the whole journey

 

with the greatest

 

At the Holiday Inn in Doncaster where I stayed for a couple of nights last week they had a sign on the reception counter saying staff would be observing the two minute silence on both Remembrance Sunday (tomorrow) and Remembrance Day (11th).

It went on to say that although they realised not all guests would wish to honour the fallen, they should respect those of us who do.


I thought that was a lovely way of telling some of the arseholes who surround us every day that, for just a couple of minutes they should shut the fuck up and think of others instead of annoying us all with their pointless, self-centred selfishness.

 

I support the british leigon, I'm a member and use the place
I also have a direct debit "gift" set up that runs alongside my Membership

 

Mega respect fella

 

we owe so much to these truely magnificent people. will be thinking about all of you tomorrow.

 

one of my favorite Churchill speeches of all time :-

"we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"

the young'uns of today could learn a thing or two about Pride a Patriotism if they boherd to read up on churchill

and the greatest ever :-

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour"

 

I notice round my way a few chavs are even wearing poppys this year.

I shall be watching the ceremonies on tv tomorrow.

Did anyone watch the Homeless Veterans documantary on BBC1 last night?? Quite shocking really.

 

anyone watchin the rememberance service?

 

I strongly believe that the Forces have acquired a much larger respect from the British public over the past two years.

Soldiers being presented their medals at local football matches etc does the world of good

Having the public behind us makes a massive difference to morale.

Thank you all

 

Will be thinking of everyone who fought for our country.

Without them.... we wouldnt be here today.

 

I am very impressed by this thread and the way you guys think of it. The 11th of November is for us Poles the independence day, commemorating our regained independance after 123 years under boots of foreign occupiers, yet not too many people talk about it in their private lives, and I haven't seen a one thread on our internet forums about it, most people leave the celebrations to politicians, honour guards of the armed forced etc. Tbh I am a bit ashamed of that .

It's great that you remember about the servicemen and civilians who made sacrifices for the better future

 

Boo!!

 

Born at the end of the 2nd World War, Rememberance day was a biggie back then & its great to see the respect that the latest generation is showing on this thread . I will be leaving soon to attend my local memorial service.

 

and don't forget how lucky you are living in this country compared to other parts of the world.

we have no natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes etc to deal with (except the odd bit of rain now and again)

we have a welfare state

we have a national health service

we have a temperate climate

we have opportunities for education and improvement

we have a democracy and freedom of speech and religion

overall, it's a pretty good place to live and we must be grateful for those who sacrificed their lives to make sure that it remained that way

 

Respect to the ones we have lost, and the ones who are still with us.

 

i cannot comprehend what it must have been like or must be like for our lads (and lasses) defending our way of life,i only wish when i was younger i listened more often to my grandads war stories,too late now.

we owe them so much,thankyou.

 

That has to be the most emotional 2 minutes of the year.

 

Thats exactly what I was thinking. They are heros, not over paid sports man who cry or moan over the slightest thing.

 

and so we all should be behind everyone thats put their life on the line so we can all live our lives as they are , we all moan but it could be so differant

i aint ashamed to say i will be shedding a few tears and a lump in my throut in a few mins time when the march past starts

brave men from all walks or life,young and old , we will never know what they went through personaly and total respect to them and their freinds that never made it home

 

In Flanders field 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 with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields. ~~By Major John McCrae, May 1915.~~

 

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O8F2UP...eature=related

We must never let this happen again, My Father in Law helped liberate Belsen, he talked of that Bulldozer & the incredible smell.

 

went to florida this january and went to waterworld where every serviceman past and present american or allie was asked to stand and recieve a round of applause,it wasnt a spedcial day holiday or anything,you can say what you like about the yanks they honour theit servicemen and women,not that we dont but it was around that time a british soldier was told to go out of uniform to hospital after returning injured from iraq so as not to offend non-brits who may be there,WTF!

these guys should be honoured for what they do for us on a regular basis not just annual.

it will be a sad day when the last ww2 veteran is laid to rest,again thankyou for all that has sacrificed................

 

 

Couldn't watch all of that peice of film, it makes you ashamed to be human.

 

When I was at school, one of the girls in my class brought a load of photos in that her grandad had taken when they liberated a prison of war camp, it was for a project or something she was doing. In those photo's there was also a bull dozer, would it be the same camp or were all camps run the same way? tbh it hit us kids...seeing it in books doesnt really mean much at that age as your constantly looking in books but, to hold a actual photo that some one had taken at the scene brought it all to life and gave it depth.