Remembrance Day - November 11

[Polldoll]

Another Photo taken last Friday... I feel  compelled to post them as it was just the most beautiful field of poppies I have seen ..
 Remembering ...

[oldtimer]

 Poll, that's beautiful.

[mitchell]

In memory of

Sergeant G C Morrison S/2217, 8th Bn. Gordon Highlanders who died age 24 on 25th May 1915
Remembered with Honour Tancrez Farm Cemetery

Sergeant Patrick Grant Margetts 1186, 23rd Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. who died age 32 on Sept 1920
Remembered with Honour Manly General Cemetery

Elaine

[tazzie]

  In Memory Of


 Private Arthur Millard  202504
 2nd Bat. Royal Berkshire Regiment.
 Died 20 /08/1917 age 30.
 Son of John Millard & Sarah Elizabeth Millard(nee Collins).
 Brother of my great grandfather.
 Tyne Cot.



 Tazzie

[liverpool annie]

May I also add my tearful and heartfelt thanks ....... to our soldiers ......

who fought in the war to end all wars .... sadly that was not meant to be !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYvJJFNdvpk

God Bless and Keep you !

[JenB]

Here is a quote which I love, from Pericles' oration at a funeral for those who had died in the Peloponnesian War:

"Fix your eyes on the greatness of Athens as you have it before you day by day. Fall in love with her, and when you feel her great, remember that this greatness was won by men of courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honour in action ... They gave their lives for the commonwealth and received, each for his own memory, praise that will never die, and with it the grandest of all monuments, not that in which their mortal bones are laid, but a home in the minds of men, where their glory remains ... For the whole earth is the monument of famous men; and their story is not carved only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. For you now it remains to rival what they have done and, knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset."

[Puck]

To the Father and Uncle that my Mother never knew.

Private Enos Patrick Ryan Royal West Kent Regiment.
Le Touret Memorial France 26th October 1914

and

Private Walter Leonard Huxstep Hem Farm Cemetery Aras
East Surrey Regiment 1916.

But I have been to visit them on her behalf.

Puck.

[oldtimer]

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 of 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 1914

[wozzle]

thudnut
with regard to the youtube link that you posted does anyone know who is singing the song .