Remembrance Sunday

[Nick_69]

Today being Remembrance Sunday i would like to give me thoughts to everyone that has died serving for this country and especially this year where we have had highest number of death since the falklins.

Also i would like to put a thought out to all the family who have lost someone

[Nick_69]

my poppy

+100000


Thank you everyone, for everything you have died for

[Swin]

*Shameless plug for the Royal British Legion*

It's good that we remember all those that have fallen for us, but why not check out what your local Legion is up to - it's a cheap beer at the very least and you're raising funds at the same time!

I got into the Legion as an ex-serviceman a few years ago, I've made some good friends along the way, and our local one is a very child-friendly night out in a town where most pubs don't like families

[Stingo]

I always find Nimrod a very moving piece of music at these times...even Abide with me by the Fron Choir brings a tear or two to the eye...

Striking train drivers should be ashamed of themselves- striking on a day when so many people want to get to the cenotaph.

FYI, a future in-law told me that you don't need to have seen service to join the British Legion.

The war memorial in my village was well attended.

[Swin]

@ Sean C

Very true, you don't need to have been in the services to join the Legion. At the time I joined you needed 1 member to recommend you if you were ex-services, and 2 members if you hadn't served.

I think these days it's the same across the board, as long as 1 current member recommends you, you can apply to join

[Ch00]

112 Service men and women had died in the last year alone.

i'm sure you didnt intend to but remember these are people not statistics

Went to the Parade on the Embankment in Nottingham. Ibby was parading with her squadron. I remembered my great Uncle Harold, though I never knew him, I remembered the driver of a mate's son's reconiasance unit that got killed by a landmine in Afganistan, though I never knew him, I remembered Dangerous Dave, though I never knew him. and I remember countless others who I never knew. And I cried.