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Post by Okie Stokie. on Oct 21, 2014 16:44:36 GMT
Just post a poppy.................Lets remember the fallen.
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Post by digger on Oct 21, 2014 17:13:27 GMT
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Post by Bagwash on Oct 21, 2014 19:08:18 GMT
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Post by Okie Stokie. on Oct 22, 2014 15:44:34 GMT
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Post by digger on Oct 22, 2014 16:00:53 GMT
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Post by Okie Stokie. on Oct 23, 2014 17:40:55 GMT
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Post by Nick1984 on Oct 23, 2014 18:22:49 GMT
What does that actually mean? Edit: Also obligatory...
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Post by digger on Oct 23, 2014 18:34:55 GMT
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Post by Okie Stokie. on Nov 9, 2014 18:17:56 GMT
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Post by digger on Nov 9, 2014 18:53:22 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2014 23:22:31 GMT
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Post by davei8vale on Nov 10, 2014 21:38:20 GMT
Onenickhancock, where did you source your pic from. I wouldn't mind a full size print of that.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2014 23:52:04 GMT
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Post by lawrieleslie on Nov 11, 2014 7:17:12 GMT
I took my 8 yr old Granddaughter to our village church for Rememberance Service on Sunday. Like most kids of that age she is very inquisitive. When The Vicar led the Act of Rememberance she started by saying it was in rememberance if all those who had died in conflict since the start of WW1. On the way home my Granddaughter asked "Why do we only remember those who died since the start of WW1 grandad?" I couldn't answer the question. Why don't we remember those killed in earlier conflicts.....Trafalgar, Waterloo, Boer War and many more???
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 8:42:27 GMT
Onenickhancock, where did you source your pic from. I wouldn't mind a full size print of that. sorry for the delay mate. Its a Sid Kirkham print. If youre on Facebook he has a page. Some brilliant Stoke prints too. Brilliant local artist. He also has a webpage.
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Post by capto on Nov 11, 2014 13:37:30 GMT
I took my 8 yr old Granddaughter to our village church for Rememberance Service on Sunday. Like most kids of that age she is very inquisitive. When The Vicar led the Act of Rememberance she started by saying it was in rememberance if all those who had died in conflict since the start of WW1. On the way home my Granddaughter asked "Why do we only remember those who died since the start of WW1 grandad?" I couldn't answer the question. Why don't we remember those killed in earlier conflicts.....Trafalgar, Waterloo, Boer War and many more??? Just a guess, but the soldiers there were volunteers, whereas WW1 eventually there was conscription; also maybe the scale of casualties, eveybody must have at least known someone who was lost & so there had to be somewhere where their grief and loss could be centred. Went to our remembrance service today, and cars & vehicles were whizzing past unti 11 & then thankfully they closed the road for two mins; not much is it, two mins per year? Guess we have forgot . .
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Post by lawrieleslie on Nov 11, 2014 15:58:55 GMT
I took my 8 yr old Granddaughter to our village church for Rememberance Service on Sunday. Like most kids of that age she is very inquisitive. When The Vicar led the Act of Rememberance she started by saying it was in rememberance if all those who had died in conflict since the start of WW1. On the way home my Granddaughter asked "Why do we only remember those who died since the start of WW1 grandad?" I couldn't answer the question. Why don't we remember those killed in earlier conflicts.....Trafalgar, Waterloo, Boer War and many more??? Just a guess, but the soldiers there were volunteers, whereas WW1 eventually there was conscription; also maybe the scale of casualties, eveybody must have at least known someone who was lost & so there had to be somewhere where their grief and loss could be centred. Went to our remembrance service today, and cars & vehicles were whizzing past unti 11 & then thankfully they closed the road for two mins; not much is it, two mins per year? Guess we have forgot . . Had this discussion with my tutor group at school this morning before our Act if Rememberance. The consensus of opinion was that most people can still relate to WW1 through relatives etc but earlier conflicts would have been forgotten and with improved media last century and social media more recently it appears to be much easier to maintain the momentum of Rememberance. Shame really because a hundred years ago there would have been many people affected by deaths from earlier conflicts but there just wasn't the facilities of media that there have been since.
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Post by starkiller on Nov 11, 2014 19:15:53 GMT
I also use Remembrance Day to remember the innocent civilians killed in war.
There doesn't seem to any official remembrance of these people.
And, today, civilian casualties far outnumber those in the military.
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Post by boothenboy75 on Nov 11, 2014 19:18:59 GMT
I took my 8 yr old Granddaughter to our village church for Rememberance Service on Sunday. Like most kids of that age she is very inquisitive. When The Vicar led the Act of Rememberance she started by saying it was in rememberance if all those who had died in conflict since the start of WW1. On the way home my Granddaughter asked "Why do we only remember those who died since the start of WW1 grandad?" I couldn't answer the question. Why don't we remember those killed in earlier conflicts.....Trafalgar, Waterloo, Boer War and many more??? Theres a book called The Unknown Soldier by Neil Hanson which is a great read and covers (amongst other things) how the British people came to commemorate their war dead after 1918. The BBC has a page on the brief story www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/unknown_warrior.shtml The silence was only due to last for a year, but due to the overwhelming response it's been with us ever since. It's evolved from commemorating WW1 fallen over the decades since, to commemorating all of the fallen since WW1.
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Post by boothenboy75 on Nov 11, 2014 19:23:47 GMT
I also use Remembrance Day to remember the innocent civilians killed in war. There doesn't seem to any official remembrance of these people. And, today, civilian casualties far outnumber those in the military. It's been like that since WWI. In WWII more civilians were killed than soldiers. Thankfully enough people of previous generations gave their lives for you to remember it in any way you wish, and thats the way I remember them.
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Post by maxplonk on Nov 11, 2014 22:00:20 GMT
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