Lest we forget

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DrNick

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 Wickham, Hampshire
A beautiful autumnal day to remember The Glorious Dead and all that continue to make sacrifices for us all.

The service at the Cenotaph seems to become increasingly poignant each year as the World and the human race become more complex.


On a lighter note it continues to impress me how fantastically the Queen can walk backwards down the Cenotaph steps at her age!!
 
I watched the pomp and ceremony last night and then read this,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230732/What-way-remember-VC-heroes.html

Perhaps the powers that be should remember a little more which is hopefully being put right.

Tim.
 
I've always wondered why you Brits, carry mayflowers in your jackets in november - I suppose thats it, is it?
Similarily, we have independence day at 11th november in Poland

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McKoval said:
I've always wondered why you Brits, carry mayflowers in your jackets in november - I suppose thats it, is it?
Similarily, we have independence day at 11th november in Poland

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They are poppies. They represent the blood of the fallen.
 
They were also the only flower to grow on the battlefields and graves of the servicemen lost at war...
 
Beautiful Photo Stuart, just come back from a service, great too see so many turn out in respect.
 
Finisterre said:
I think it becomes more poignant as we get older because we gain a better grasp of loss with age.
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Or a better grasp of the feckwits in power. If they ever want me to "go over the top" it will be locked and loaded behind the 650 politicians who should be made to go in front. It will be a short charge (as long as it takes me to run out of ammo)

I take my hat off to anyone that puts their life on the line for others. I stick two fingers up at anyone who causes them to need to.
 
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