Armistice

[BigonaBianchi]

This is an important day for me , I've always had a 'thing/interest' in the subject. I carried the flag at the remembrance service when I was a small kid and never knew why it was important. I went to most of the WW1 battlefields except Gallipoli, the Normandy beaches, the Falaise gap, Arnheim, Dresden, then I walked across the Camp at Bergen Belsen, then I understood.

I wear my poppy with humility because I benefit each day and never gave anything to pay for the freedoms we enjoy today.

 

[ScotiaLass]

Despite having a father that served in Malaya and being married to an ex-marine (US), I'm ashamed to say I never really took much notice of Armistice day. Until my children joined the Army.
My daughter has just left the Blues & Royals after 10 years (her husband is in for the full monty), my eldest son was medically discharged due to an injury during basic, and my 19 yr old has an interview with the Army next week (REME).

I saw first hand the effects when my daughter lost a friend in Afghanistan and had another come home minus his legs.
I saw how profoundly it affected her.
I send welfare boxes at Christmas and help where I can.
As well as remembering the fallen, we should also remember those suffering post traumatic stress syndrome and other mental health issues.

 

[Hill Wimp]

It's a time to remember them all that's for sure.

 

[rbreid]

As well as remembering the fallen, we should also remember those suffering post traumatic stress syndrome and other mental health issues.

As a PTSD sufferer, one amongst many, I thank you on behalf of us all for that sentiment ScotiaLass.

 

[ScotiaLass]

As a PTSD sufferer, one amongst many, I thank you on behalf of us all for that sentiment ScotiaLass.

You are very welcome. It's something that doesn't get discussed often enough and is probably more common than physical injuries.

 

[rbreid]

You are very welcome. It's something that doesn't get discussed often enough and is probably more common than physical injuries.

It's also a time to remember the strain on parents, friends, children and partners of those serving today.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Seems like an apt day and thread for this picture I took at the Commando Memorial in Spean Bridge a few years ago...

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[ScotiaLass]

Seems like an apt day and thread for this picture I took at the Commando Memorial in Spean Bridge a few years ago...

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Cracking!

 

[BigonaBianchi]

When I first went to Omaha beach I sat on the sand and wrote a tune ..when I got home I recorded it. Then I took another trip back there and left a cd of the song at the Grave of one of the many unknown soldiers graves there.

 

[stephec]

Cracking!

Spooky, as soon as I looked at that photo I was preparing to write just that, then I scrolled down...

 

[ayceejay]

My father was in both big ones and said he did it so that me and my brother wouldn't have to - we didn't. My wish is that no one would have to go to war and that Armistice Day was really a celebration of peace.

 

[ufkacbln]

We never make a big thing about our wedding anniversary.

I was on weekend leave due to the Falklands, and got married on June 12 1982.

Unfortunately my brother was on HMS Glamorgan, which was hit by an Exocet on the same day. He survived, but it has always seemd inappropriate to make a big thing about that date

 

[Berties]

As a young soldier I used to compete in the military marches based around famous battle grounds,I was honoured to lay a reef at the menin gate and take a march by at Nijmegen ,I rode Normandy's history this year ,and the human lose still touches me,I took time out today to attend my local war memorial at 11 ,to think of people We have lost ,a fact the pardre said was only one year in the last 95 we have not lost a service man was 1968,and that in the Great War some died every 3 mins for four years all leaving a widow,mother and or children,
Take a moment as I did to think about life