[Dave_Lee]

Nothing to do with carpet cleaning, but tommorrow is Rememberence Sunday, I will be on the summit of Great Gable along with over 1000 others for the simple service held there every year. At 11am for two minutes there, mountaineers will stand in silence thinking of those to whom we all owe so much.

'In Flanders Fields' by John McCrrae.

In Flanders fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.


Dave.

[derikraven]

nice one Dave............thanks for sharing

[*paul_moss]

My youngest son(21) is a Welsh Guard and had to do 6 months in Iraq.
So glad he came home safe.
God bless them all.

[John Kelly]

I always watch the rememberance day and in fact my daughter was carrying a flag on the march today. But I have never bought a poppy.....

Why, my mothers first husband was a soldier and died of cancer aged 33 she was left with 2 kids and had to go in front of a military tribunal to plead for a pension, she was granted 2 shillings a week. She aproached the British Legion and got nowt. She then married my father a few years earlier, he had been in the navy since he was 15, in fact he couldn't join the British navy so absconded to Norway and joined their Navy, when the second world war started he transfered to the Royal Navy and served on the Russion convoys and was torpedoed and spent 8 hours adrift in the Irish sea. He survived the war and stayed in the Navy until he was 32.
When he was in his 70's he was confined to a wheelchair and developed Alziemers disease. He needed constant care and we aproached the Army & Navy association and the British Legion to see if any help was available, result, lip service and platitudes.
I wonder what happens to all the money raised it can't all go to the Chelsea pensioners.