Remembrance Sunday -anyone doing anything?

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Motor City Cobra said:
No mate. Waited until 11.30 and still rammed. Going to pop back down this afternoon to see it and the wreaths with no crowds.
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Definitely recommend it

wash said:
Disgusted by that tramp corbyn, he might as well have turned out in a manquinni.
No respect from the self serving ingratiate
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So what you're actually doing is slagging someone off who went to pay his respects, whilst you sat on your arse in the house aye ?

What we're you wearing like a suit?
 
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I've been to Great Lumley Church this morning to take part in the 2 minutes silence. Took time out to remember:

My 2 relatives from the Pimlett family, who fought and died with the Durham Light Infantry and the Royal Field Artillery;
My Great Grandfather Hodby, an Army Medic at Gallipoli, whose ship was hit twice on the way over, and
My Great Uncle, Henry Dodd, Stoker First Class, killed aboard HMS Hood, sunk by The Bismarck, aged 21 - H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: Crew Information - H.M.S. Hood Roll of Honour, Memorial to Stoker 1st Class Henry Dodd

RIP
 
wash said:
What's political about stating a bloke looked like a tramp at the Cenotaph.
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So everyone has to dressed to the nines. Did you slag him off when he stayed back to talk to the veterans a couple of years back? After the tories had fucked off? What did you wear today as they marched past?
 
There are 12 military gravestones scattered about East Herrington Cemetery dated 1914 onwards.
I like to pay my respects on armistice day every year by placing a cross and poppy at each one.
This simple act of remembrance makes me feel a part of.
 
Durham Cathedral last night. Durham today, took the offspring down to see the parade and they really enjoyed it.

Fantastic as always.
 
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned elsewhere but Peter Jackson’s new documentary They Shall Not Grow Old is on at 21.30 tonight BBC2. A friend saw it at the cinema and said it is well worth a watch.
Sorry just seen there’s a thread on it.
 
wash said:
Disgusted by that tramp corbyn, he might as well have turned out in a manquinni.
No respect from the self serving ingratiate
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Meanwhile the current government is responsible for a country in which 22% of veterans leaving the armed forces end up on the streets at some point. One in five veterans surveyed by the SSAFA in 2017 survive on less than £7,500. The majority lived on £17,000, 10k below the U.K. Average. Unlike the US and Canada our government refuses to keep a register on the number of veteran suicides

Corbyn might despise the armed forces-you have no idea but he might-but even if he does it's purley ideological. It doesn't actually hurt or affect anyone. The current government actively despises them by using their bodies and lives to push their agenda abroad and then leaves them as human refuse when they're demobbed. The leader of that government was there.
 
sonson said:
Meanwhile the current government is responsible for a country in which 22% of veterans leaving the armed forces end up on the streets at some point. One in five veterans surveyed by the SSAFA in 2017 survive on less than £7,500. The majority lived on £17,000, 10k below the U.K. Average. Unlike the US and Canada our government refuses to keep a register on the number of veteran suicides

Corbyn might despise the armed forces-you have no idea but he might-but even if he does it's purley ideological. It doesn't actually hurt or affect anyone. The current government actively despises them by using their bodies and lives to push their agenda abroad and then leaves them as human refuse when they're demobbed. The leader of that government was there.
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And yours is the first post I have noticed to use this thread as a political soapbox
 
dred said:
And yours is the first post I have noticed to use this thread as a political soapbox
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Is it improper to honour the lives and dignity of veterans still living by pointing out and highlighting the shameful way they are treated by our government? Would it be more honourable to ignore that? War is pretty much the most political thing that by there is.
 
sonson said:
Is it improper to honour the lives and dignity of veterans still living by pointing out and highlighting the shameful way they are treated by our government? Would it be more honourable to ignore that? War is pretty much the most political thing that by there is.
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Nothing at all to do with what the OP asked
 
I saw my great grandfathers medals from WW1 for the first time today. At that point my family hadn't left Germany so he fought on the other side as it were.He won the Iron Cross at Verdun. In 1938, after Kristallnacht as a jew he was beaten unconscious by a local mob then arrested and taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp. At that point there was a policy that war heroes were to be released. His Iron Cross saved his life. He then scarpered here with his family in the nick of time. He moved on to the States but my grandparents settled in the north east and became naturalised as soon as possible and after my grandfather was interned on the Isle of Mann for a few years. They became very proud brits although didn't forget their heritage. German was never spoken in the house.
 
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