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Remembrance Sunday 2019 - lovebabes56 - 08-11-2019 18:44
With Remembrance Sunday fast approaching, I hope this thread will allow us to share thoughts & stories of those we have known in our families who served this country in wartime. From 1939-1945, the Falklands War and the war in Iraq this this the thread for us to pay our own personal tributes.
I will kick this off with my thoughts to my Uncle Doug. He served in the Paratroopers in the second world war and was captured at Arnhem and spent 3 years in a POW camp. My mum and my Nan never knew where he was and I believe he was listed as MIA for quite a while.
He died several years ago and a few years ago I saw for the very first time, his war papers. From being enlisted, to the letters of being in a POW camp, and his service record and photographs. when the clock strikes 11 on Sunday, it will be him who I will think of, along with all those other brave souls & heroes who fought for our freedoms today and never came home.
To all those brave men I say a very big THANK YOU for what you did and your debt is one we can never repay for what we have today.
RE: Remembrance Sunday 2019 - Chrisst - 08-11-2019 18:52
My Grandad fought at Jutland and my Dad was injured at Monte Casino.
RE: Remembrance Sunday 2019 - lovebabes56 - 08-11-2019 19:25
^Were either captured?
RE: Remembrance Sunday 2019 - hornball - 08-11-2019 19:27
(08-11-2019 18:52 )Chrisst Wrote: My Grandad fought at Jutland and my Dad was injured at Monte Casino.I never knew my dad, but as I was growing up (thru 7 to 'adulthood') there was this one man who became the dad I never knew (he never knew I thought of him in this way). He helped my mum do the sums at the end of a weeks work in the post office, and he took me out of the house (when I was a reluctant 7 year old) to see my first live cricket match (lifelong fan ever since) Anyhow, he served in the RAF in WW II, primarily as a plane technician (I guess some might say mechanic) but earned (not something some need to bother with today when receiving accolades) a number of service medals which every Remembrance Sunday he wore very (and needless to say) justly - proudly!!
Not part of the thread necessarily, but I am interested to know what people think of the 'alternative' poppies?? I am referring to the glitzy, sparkly badges etc worn - as well as - or often now - in place of the traditional paper poppy?? I appreciate that all the money raised still goes to veterans charities etc, but - for me personally- the message of the poppy is hidden now in favour of a ' fashion statement! Were these new poppy versions to descend from the ceiling of the Royal Albert Hall tomorrow night (it too - as an event - has lost it's core purpose, in favour of a celebrity ridden concert/variety performance imho) they would break the poignant silence with one hell of a racket!
RE: Remembrance Sunday 2019 - lovebabes56 - 08-11-2019 19:30
I like the small pin type ones as I do find it difficult to use a pin with the traditional poppy
RE: Remembrance Sunday 2019 - hornball - 08-11-2019 19:35
(08-11-2019 19:30 )babelover48 Wrote: I like the small pin type ones as I do find it difficult to use a pin with the traditional poppyI appreciate that babelover!!
RE: Remembrance Sunday 2019 - Chrisst - 08-11-2019 20:32
RAF mechanics are called 'Erks'
Fashion statement, yes. Remembrance the media event between bonfire night and the election.
RE: Remembrance Sunday 2019 - hornball - 08-11-2019 20:43
(08-11-2019 20:32 )Chrisst Wrote: RAF mechanics are called 'Erks'What the hell is that supposed to mean??
Fashion statement, yes. Remembrance the media event between bonfire night and the election.
RE: Remembrance Sunday 2019 - Chrisst - 09-11-2019 06:08
Exactly. Jolly sight more important than just something for the TV.
RE: Remembrance Sunday 2019 - hornball - 10-11-2019 10:50
I had some hope for the Festival Of Remembrance last night - in the initial stages - at least - that it might just be tailored to it's core purpose, but alas in too large a part - no!! Leona Lewis massacred her hymn, and James Blunt wasn't much better. One exception was the great man from the 'Chelsea pensioners' who won BGT!! Did I miss the march in of the Chelsea pensioners btw, or were they not there?? More than just I among my watching family, wondered the same?? Superb graphics on the floor, depicting the landings, flyover etc, but unless a bat in the belfry - who saw them?? apart from we tv viewers??