Remembrance Sunday

I had a few Great Uncles that fought in WWI and WWII, luckily all survived. My Great Uncle Victor, won the MC on the Somme for bringing in wounded off the wire, and he lost only a finger for his trouble.
Always remember him as jolly and a massive moustache aka Lord Melchet from Blackadder.
 
flyer said:
There doesn't seem to be many people wearing poppies up to now which is a bit disappointing. We owe those who serve(d) so much, and a couple of quid for a poppy could help so many of the injured soldiers that are still with us today.
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what makes you think people are not buying poppies?
 
Mrs S has four Great Uncles that were lost in WW1. Two at Passchendaele, one at Arras and one as a prisoner of war outside Berlin. We have been able to visit their resting places in France, Belgium and Germany over the last three years. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission do an absolutely wonderful job at keeping the memorials and cemeteries in absolute pristine condition. Researching their stories was a very humbling experience and we owe them and their fellow servicemen a great deal. RIP.

On a related note, my daughter got us enamel poppies sitting next to a City badge this year. I noticed Pep was wearing one the other day as well. First time I have seen them.
 
flyer said:
There doesn't seem to be many people wearing poppies up to now which is a bit disappointing. We owe those who serve(d) so much, and a couple of quid for a poppy could help so many of the injured soldiers that are still with us today.
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I think the British Legion still raise enough money from their sale - I am sure that people buying an enamel badge this year will still drop a quid in their tins next year - they don't have to take a poppy.

More of a concern to me is the way government ministers bang on about the military covenant and its importance then you see how they are failed by their government. Stats on your likelihood to be homeless, suffer from mental illness, take your own life or die early show ex - service personnel are incredibly poorly served.
 
George Hannah said:
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This is my grandad in hospital blue in 1918 - after 3 years at the front he unfortunately shot the little finger off his left hand at Battle of the Somme and managed to spend the last few months of the war in blighty.
(Well fortunately for him and me really because if he's stayed he probably wouldn't have made it back and I wouldn't be here.)

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This is my Dad just before D Day
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Great photos those, it’s a good job your Grandad only got shot in his little pinky and not his little dinky :-)
 
flyer said:
There doesn't seem to be many people wearing poppies up to now which is a bit disappointing. We owe those who serve(d) so much, and a couple of quid for a poppy could help so many of the injured soldiers that are still with us today.
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The fundraising target for the Poppy Appeal 2017 was a record £47m

In 2018 the Poppy Appeal raised more than £50 million pounds

I suspect this year will be even higher.
 
My dads cousin a pro boxer from Ashton (Jack Davies) who had 138 fights died at the hands of the Japanese in a POW camp (think it was Sarawak) in WW2 and my Mums uncle died on the front in WW1, he’s buried in France.

Watching the Remembrance on TV now, Boris Johnson doing his Churchillian walk as he laid his wreath.
 
I have quite a few metal ones including a couple of the City ones plus the usual one I buy each year. But I go online to the British Legion Shop each year and buy their Charity cards and other items as Christmas presents. This also can be a year round way of raising money for our war veterans and wounded.

I do it in memory of my Grandfather who was killed (blown to bits) in October 1917 just over 2 months before my father, his only son, was born in January 1918.
 
Watching the remembrance before on bbc, our very own Ian nevin with buzzer pushing his wheelchair,never knew till last week he was in the Chindits.
 
Eccles Blue said:
I have quite a few metal ones including a couple of the City ones plus the usual one I buy each year. But I go online to the British Legion Shop each year and buy their Charity cards and other items as Christmas presents. This also can be a year round way of raising money for our war veterans and wounded.

I do it in memory of my Grandfather who was killed (blown to bits) in October 1917 just over 2 months before my father, his only son, was born in January 1918.
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Its a shame with so much money raised so many of our ex forces are in Prison, in Mental Hospitals, are Homeless &that so many have drug &alcohol problems and that so many commit suicide
 
Some idiot in Eccles set a firework off during the 2 minutes silence. The people there tried to give him a good kicking. Absolutely no respect.
 
bluemooners09 said:
Some idiot in Eccles set a firework off during the 2 minutes silence. The people there tried to give him a good kicking. Absolutely no respect.[/QUOTE
bluemooners09 said:
Some idiot in Eccles set a firework off during the 2 minutes silence. The people there tried to give him a good kicking. Absolutely no respect.
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fuckin sickening the **** wants alot more than a good kicking
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I was just reading about that idiot and on behalf of the wonderful people of Eccles I can only apologise. At the moment having watched part of the video submitted online I am s little too emotional, way past anger, to make much sense but I assure everyone that this is not typical of Eccles. I’m sorry.
 
Eccles Blue said:
I was just reading about that idiot and on behalf of the wonderful people of Eccles I can only apologise. At the moment having watched part of the video submitted online I am s little too emotional, way past anger, to make much sense but I assure everyone that this is not typical of Eccles. I’m sorry.
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Don’t ever feel the need to apologise for someboby else’s disgusting disregard my fellow blue :)
 
Watching the service this morning makes me think that Britain does this kind of ceremonial so much better than any other country could.

I am proud to be a British citizen, at a time when so many right-on gobshites accuse anything done by Britain as colonialist or imperialist and should be expunged from history. Anyone remotely patriotic is branded as pro-National Front. One can be proud of one's country without being one whit fascist. We have, as a country, done a few things that don't reflect well on us, but we're a damn sight better than most.

I'd put these delusionals in a Japanese POW camp or a Nazi concentration camp to see what oppression really was like.
 


You really do have to wonder about some people. Okay; he may not agree with the idea behind remembrance sunday. He may well be anti-war. And that's fine; that's his choice. But deliberately disrupting an event that many others do believe in, and look forward to taking part in, is just incredibly crass.
 
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