11AM tommorrow .

[Andy78]

I'll be in town tomorrow with my family observing the silence, hopefully attending a service too.

Before I became a wire rustler I studied art and art history. A particular project saw me studying war artists, one of which was Paul Nash, the official British war artist for WWI and serving soldier.

I think that some of the paintings he produced, particularly the ones depicting shelled battlefields with scorched trees, serve as some of the most powerful images I have ever seen to remind us of the futility and destruction of war, most of all the human loss.
For me there is no better reminder than these pictures.

 

[PEG]

Will be doing our tribute,in the morning,at our small clay shoot...flags up,silence and three shot salute...my sixteen year old,myself and our raggity bunch.

My mum's father was pilot of a Wellington,shot down over France,when she was 2 years old...there's two generations touched...my calling was elsewhere,but my lad will be off to Lympestone,for Marine Officer Training,after his A levels,so,the link continues...

So,for what has been,and what's to come - tomorrow matters.

 

[Squid]

Miss my Mum on days like this.

 

[pirate]

Thank you all for your contributions to this thread...it's good to know how much rsspect is out there.

 

[Squid]

Popped down to visit my Mum today and to light a candle, years back I managed to get a good spot for her in the cemetery, she would have been happy.

 

[diyterry]

Agree Mate but I'm afraid I will be within a MRI scanner in John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. can't avoid it so apologies.

Hope it went well Pete, had a brain scan a few years ago and had to have all my fillings redone afterwards as the scanner had loosened them all.

 

[Rpa07]

Church did us proud for the remembrance - never seen so many suits on the peoples - looked liked court day (but not my lot!)
My mate pastor Ken, 82 who served in the SAS and as an MP went up to children’s church and used his parade stick to bring them into order. I don’t think they’ll forget that one for a while.

 

[Pete999]

Hope it went well Pete, had a brain scan a few years ago and had to have all my fillings redone afterwards as the scanner had loosened them all.

All fine so far, the only thing I didn't like was being cocooned in the scanner with ear plugs in and Nursey mumbling just a small ----- and jabbing a needle in my arm and filling me up with some mildly radioactive dye, to be fair she had warned me before hand, but don't know about you I like to watch when someone is injecting me, a very disconcerting experience, but all went well otherwise, thanks for asking. Stopped for some scran at M40 Junction 10 services, Burger King looked inviting so got my Burger and sat down watching the day go by, something caught my eye saw this Asian family Young Hubby and Wife ith what I could only assume was Parents of some sort, they looked Afghan judging by the traditional clothes the Old couple were wearing, the Old Bay had a long white beard and looked totally bemused at the shops etc, I really felt for him, and he was wearing a poppy in his tunic, made me think about things for a while.

 

[Octopus]

We live quite close to Brookwood Cemetery, which houses one of the largest Military cemeteries in the UK. The misses and I have just been for a wander around to respect the fallen:

To visit any of my family military graves I would need to go to France / Belgium and then on to Berlin

May they all rest in peace.

 

[pirate]

Beautiful pics Murdoch, thanks for sharing.

 

[Squid]

Trying to locate some photos of my Father in his whites, but can't find them but I remembered about a letter my Grandmother who I never met sent him, it starts off with "Władek, I am glad to hear that you are alive", my Fathers name was Władysław the letter was sent in 1952 my Father left home in 1939 before the war to be a trawler man.

I just can't imagine what people went through.

 

[Pete999]

Trying to locate some photos of my Father in his whites, but can't find them but I remembered about a letter my Grandmother who I never met sent him, it starts off with "Władek, I am glad to hear that you are alive", my Fathers name was Władysław the letter was sent in 1952 my Father left home in 1939 before the war to be a trawler man.

I just can't imagine what people went through.

No neither can I

 

[Octopus]

What I struggle to cope with , is the loss that the parents must have felt .......

So many of the brave ones were under 25

 

[Toneyz]

Read through this post and am finding it a bit disrespectful for those that have taken it off topic on other issues.

 

[GMES]

Several posts deleted for being off topic, probably not intentional but let's give this thread the Respect it deserves.