Remembrance Sunday - what will you be doing

[wisdom]

Today I fired the maroon on L ytham prom to mark the start of the silence tomorrow I will lay a wreath at Lythams memorial on behalf of HM coastguard search and rescue service.

 

[smokeysmoo]

I'll be paying my respects to all who have paid the ultimate price, including my Great Grandfather Private Joseph Hilton who lost his life on the Somme in 1916.

We will remember them.

 

[Drago]

Just dusted off my beret. Looks tidy enough so I'll don it tomoz.

 

[Saluki]

Is it a rise in nationalism? but remembrance seems to be more noticeable this year, just come through the next village & they have large poppies fastened to the lamp posts, never seen that before, it also seems to have more prominence in the news & elsewhere.

We have those too.

I might be riding but my alarm is set, on my phone, so I can stop for 2 minutes at 11. I'm a Forces-brat, ex RAF wife and currently dating a Military kind of chap. I think that it's hardwired into me.

 

[Accy cyclist]

This new flat i'm in is right next to the main road the police block off while the band and folk walk up to the war memorial in the big park up the hill. I can watch them go past, then either walk up after them or watch the service on the telly. I usually ride up there,but seeing as i'm now closer i'll walk, if i decide to go. I didn't start going to the local service till after my dad died 16 years ago. I look on it as me representing him when i go. He did his national service in Hong Kong in the early 1950's I still have his blue boxed United Nations medal from the Korean War. I know he wasn't involved in any fighting but he was there when it happened,so it counts i suppose.

 

[Katherine]

I have a large poppy to put on my handlebars tomorrow.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Today I fired the maroon on L ytham prom to mark the start of the silence tomorrow I will lay a wreath at Lythams memorial on behalf of HM coastguard search and rescue service.

Can you go and visit my mum afterwards? She's in Lake View Nursing Home right across from Fairhaven Lake.

 

[Helenbells]

I was on the Mercers Float, ringing handbells, at the Lord Mayors Show. In all the hullaballoo just before the start of the parade EVERYONE FELL SILENT AND STILL at 11am. Stunning silence. Just as it should be.

 

[classic33]

I remembered my fallen colleagues from Nimrods XV230 & XV239 in war and peace

2 September 1995, Nimrod XV239 was lost in Toronto during an airshow. Exactly 11 years to the day, 2 September 2006, Nimrod XV230 was lost in Afghanistan. Both aircraft were crewed by CXX/120 Sqn from RAF Kinloss."

 

[Glenn]

2 September 1995, Nimrod XV239 was lost in Toronto during an airshow. Exactly 11 years to the day, 2 September 2006, Nimrod XV230 was lost in Afghanistan. Both aircraft were crewed by CXX/120 Sqn from RAF Kinloss."

I should have been with XV239 in Toronto, but 3 days before it flew out to the airshow I was sent to Seeb, Oman for 2 weeks.

 

[ozboz]

Well , day began at 6am , down to stables to sort Mr Horse Arnie out, Grabbed a Macca's and now on bus off to Parade ,
'Lest we Forget
Rest in Peace '

 

[Drago]

Celer Et Audax!

I will not forget.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Celer Et Audax!

I will not forget.

I hope no one does but I suspect there will be another selfishly I hope not in my lifetime but I worry about my grandchildren

 

[FishFright]

I do my quiet and thinking on the 11th of the 11th et al.

 

[ozboz]

I remembered my fallen colleagues from Nimrods XV230 & XV239 in war and peace

I was reading the Wreath Messages at the Brentford Cenotaph this morning , There was one Lady , quite upset , the Wreath she had laid was for her Brother who had died on the XV230 , what a coincidence, I told her I had read about this earlier on this site , he was a Manchester Lad