Lest we forget

[briggie]

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[jims-terrano]

Pete, get your self in to my home town for 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoon mate.

Jim

[briggie]

Pete, get your self in to my home town for 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoon mate.

Jim

bit of a problem with my truck jim , i thought id sort it by fitting a zorst ... but it hasnt .... so dunno mate

[jims-terrano]

Just watched the RBL Festival of Remembrance, how proud we should be in this country.

Tomorrow will be the big parades in most towns and cities. Next year will be the biggest for many years due to Remembrance Sunday falling on the 11th. I will be playing what I consider to be a small part in my town's parade tomorrow with a tear of pride. It is good to see that people have not forgotten what Remembrance is about. Then a drink with the VET's at the end of the afternoon. Will buy one particular VET who took a pounding at Monte Cassino a wee dram of something warming, a very nice man and a real gentleman.

Briggie you know exactly where I am coming from.

Jim

[briggie]

For the Fallen
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables at home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.

Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)

[Liam]

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[paulp]

great pictures Liam

Decided to go myself to the menin gate yesterday.

Truly beautiful.

paulp

[Liam]

great pictures Liam

Decided to go myself to the menin gate yesterday.

Truly beautiful.

paulp
Hope the weather was as good for you as it was for us, 20 degrees a few weeks ago.

[jims-terrano]

Yeah cracking pictures Liam.

Great afternoon and very moving. Saw two British Para vets assist a German Para vet lay a reef, that was moving and I nearly shed a tear. He made it through Monte Cassino to live his life here in the UK and become best of friends with people who were once enemies. They all share the same past just different clothing when it comes down to it. RBL Bikers led the parade, with the metal on some of their chests I don't know how they kept their balance. Saw something that I have never seen before, people lined the route as per usual but they were clapping the whole parade even down to the youth groups. We've had it official that it was the 2nd biggest parade in the UK. A very moving day and proof people have not forgotten what service men and women have given and still giving.

Went for a drink afterwards where a lot of people that had taken part were. Had a great chat with an old vet. I wish my old man could of been there too.

Jim

[Liam]

Jim, it only hits you what those few words "We will remember" actually do mean whe you see the wreaths and photographs on graves over 90 years on. My grandfather was lucky, he came back when millions of others didn't. It makes you think when you see so many graves in such a small area.May they all rest in peace.