Remembered

[johnb5177]

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 of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.


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[macabethiel]

My late Mother was an Austrian who was 11 years of age when her Country was annexed by Germany. She remembers her Jewish neighbours disappearing a few months after they were all given a copy of "Mein Kampf " at her School. After the war the Jewish Family did not return and the Farm they owned was occupied by a local thug.

My Mother was the best runner in her School but was barred from the School Team as she did not look Aryan enough to represent the School. Her three elder brothers were conscripted into the German Army and sent to the Russian Front where they all died one on his first day of active service.

During the post war occupation of Austria by the British Army on the Rhine she met my father and my Mum and I subsequently moved to England where she lived until she died 4 years ago.

Three lives wasted by being forced to either join the German Army or be sent to a forced Labour Concentration Camp.

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

Nice touch..

We will be helping the Chatham Remembrance Parade on Sunday, just about to go out and wash the car so it looks nice and respectful.

I do not understand the anti-poppy group this year, surely it applies as a memory to all who needlessly loose their lives, regardless of their nationalities.



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[jims-terrano]

Sadly Clive it's more than anti poppy, take a look around at the parade you'll see they're taking security seriously at these events. I'm taking a group of kids to a local festival of remembrance tonight, poppy selling tomorrow at some point and then a parade on Sunday. Busy time but very proud to play my part in the memory of the fallen.

 

[don simon]

I do not understand the anti-poppy group this year, surely it applies as a memory to all who needlessly loose their lives, regardless of their nationalities.

I'm not sure what the anti-poppy brigade is about. But isn't it worth remembering the people who laid down their lives so that we have the freedom to air our views?
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

I went to France a good few years ago to pick up a medal for a family member who was a glider pilot. The cemeteries are a sight. I don't wear a poppy and I do remember in my own way.

 

[perelaar]

We don't wear poppies here in Belgium, but the war is still very much alive. I've heard the stories of my grandparents, I've visited several WW2 plane crash sites in my area, visited the Battle of the Bulge field - and properly read up on the war. Understanding WW1 and WW2 is key to Belgian politics, even today.

I didn't even know there was such a thing as an anti-poppy group. Sad, very sad.