Rememberance

[johnb5177]

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.


We will remember them

[jims-terrano]

We Will Remember Them

Probably one of my busiest weekends of the year. Was at a Festival of Remembrance last night, been at my local cenotaph this morning and again tomorrow for the parade. It’s said that my local parade is the second largest outside of Whitehall. But my job is setting up the PA system and looking after it.

Next year is going to be a huge year for remembrance as in April it is the 100th anniversary of the RAF and also the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War.

[Lazy-Ferret]

Suz and I are off to do road closures with SE4x4response for the Chatham remembrance parade tomorrow. It was going to be cancelled 5 years ago because of public spending cuts, until we took over the marshalling of it. This year, because of the heightened state of security the country is in, we have had to change the way we do it, no longer just a few signs, and cones across the roads, this year we will be actually using the 4x4's to block the roads completely, to try and reduce the chance of a run away vehicle getting into the procession. We have 38 vehicles for just Chatham, and another 5, for another parade in Rochester.

[Lazy-Ferret]

We made a tidy road block. All went off with out a hitch. Nice to see so many people in the procession, and just as many walking beside them, not only that but even the people inconvenienced by the road block seemed nicer this year.

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[Jay666d]

Best lookin' road block I've ever seen!

[jims-terrano]

Nice road block.
Well I was setting up and looking after the PA System for our parade, just a pity I missed the parade. Only slight hickup was the power socket under a grate was dead so had to go borrow electricity from a nursing home over looking the cenotaph.

I think it’s a very sad state of affairs that we need articulated lorries and council gritters to ensure no scumbags can do a hit and run terrorist attack but I suppose it’s the world we live in.

Start planning for next years now, going to be a very big remembrance season next year being 100 years since the end of the great war.

[johnb5177]

We attended a Rememberance service, this afternoon in St Marys in Swansea.

What a great service, with representatives from military and civilian services.

Seeing so many committed youngsters in their well turned out uniforms, was a heartening sight.

The singing was of course (being Wales) superb, and the prophetic words

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.

echoed in the silence.

A piper played Flowers of the forest and we remembered as we should, those who gave their todays for our tomorrows.......would that we would never have to do this ever again, but it is, I sadly feel a futile hope.......but

We will remember them

[Lazy-Ferret]

Originally Posted by jims-terrano

Nice road block.
Well I was setting up and looking after the PA System for our parade, just a pity I missed the parade. Only slight hickup was the power socket under a grate was dead so had to go borrow electricity from a nursing home over looking the cenotaph.

I think it’s a very sad state of affairs that we need articulated lorries and council gritters to ensure no scumbags can do a hit and run terrorist attack but I suppose it’s the world we live in.

Start planning for next years now, going to be a very big remembrance season next year being 100 years since the end of the great war.

Good job...

We were the last road marshal point before the cenotaph, so got to see the whole procession. I don't think several of the scouts/brownies really understood what it was all about, some were hopping and skipping, and being shouted at by the Scout leader...

Because of the way the 4x4's were being used this year, we were told we were not to stay in the car while they were blocking the road, and to be on the side nearest the procession, so we literally had a front seat view.