Remembrance Sunday

[Celestine]

Whoever arranged and installed the Remembrance Sunday poppy and donation button.....

WELL DONE xxxxx

It lifted my spirits to see it on LB. It's a very important day for me and I love the way Remembrance Sunday seems to be growing in significance, presumably because of current battles, we are more aware than ever of the sacrifices that have been made for our freedom and way of life.

THANK YOU

[sam]

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I posted this over on BC and think it may be good here.


Not sure this is 100% the right place but I know Smasher will move if needed LOL.

Those of you who have joined the bc face book page will see I have posted a link to the help for heros site. There is a page with items for sale, like the heros wrist band. These are £2. If anyone can spare just that to buy one I ask that you do.

http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/

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remember The Ones Who Died
even If Its Not Rememberence Day
many Thousands Died
every Day Thousands More
many People Lost
brutal Battles
every One Remember
remember All Who Fall

[jax007]

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I would like to echo Celestine's sentiments re the highligting Rembrance Day. I feel it is declining at too fast a rate ... I used to see EVERYONE wearing poppies going work on the train and in the streets and now I am lucky to see more than one or two people. Shop staff used to wear them too, but now, sadly, that too is in decline.

I am forever losing mine and am beginning to think I must single-handedly fund the entire poppy campaign having to keep replacing them!!!

God bless you who posted the Poppy and God Bless all those that fought for our country and in wars around the world - an evil 'unnecessity'!

May we never forget them.

jax

[theGobbyOne]

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Lest we forget.

A friend of my daughters was killed in Afganistan last month a month before he was due home a bvery brave young man indeed and I for one do not underestimate what these brave hero's past and present have done and still do for us.
x

[sam]

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gobby, i hope your daughter is ok. My hubby has been there too many times now and its a hell hole. At least while he is teaching he isnt off on dets. My fondest thoughts to your daughter and her friends family. x

[Amethyst]

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Thank you. My Grandad passed away recently and it seemed even more important this year to remember those who give their time and their lives to serving the country.

The British Legion do some amazing work, quietly, with veterans and those currently serving, and they deserve as much help as they can get. The Royal British Legion - Can We Help You? .

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 contemn.
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.

[scoobydoo]

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Thanks for the link - I am going to buy some of the christmas cards as well.

[sam]

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It really shouldnt be just one day a year that we remember the fallen, help the injured, and feel pride for our armed forces. But one day is far better than never.

[Tools]

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While my family has never lost anyone during any conflict, many of them have served until the mid 80`s. The army has always been part of my family's history and I always donate to the RBL.

I would also like to pint out that there are many more ways of helping/donating here are just a few

New ways to support us There are many ways to support The Poppy Appeal either individually or as a company. And now you can show your support digitally - by email, on your mobile and on Facebook.
A Poppy for your mobile

The ever-popular Poppy Download returns for this year's Poppy Appeal. Make a £1.50 donation using your mobile phone by texting Poppy to 80848, of which 90p goes to the Poppy Appeal (excluding Virgin), and you'll receive a poppy for your mobile phone wallpaper. Just text POPPY to 80848. Tell your friends!
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PoppE

Show your support by adding a message of support to the bottom of each email you send. This year individuals as well as companies can register. Visit www.poppe.poppy.org.uk.
Buy The X Factor Finalists' Hero single
The 12 finalists of the popular TV programme The X Factor have produced a cover version of Mariah Carey’s 1993 hit Hero and proceeds from its sale will be divided equally between Help for Heroes and the Poppy Appeal. So look for a copy in your nearest Woolworth, Tesco, Asda or Sainsbury's, as well as music retailers such as Zavvi and HMV or order the single online.
Auctionair online auction room

Bidding for the specially designed Poppy Brooches has closed but there are other bargains available. The Royal British Legion Auction Room, operated by Auctionair, has a hand picked selection of items and £1 for every bid is donated to the Poppy Appeal.
Poppy Bond - save and donate
Coventry Building Society has teamed up with the Poppy Appeal to bring you a great way of earning interest on your savings, while at the same time helping current and former members of Britain’s Armed Forces and their dependants. When you open your Poppy Bond everyone benefits. You'll receive a competitive rate of 6.25% AER/gross pa fixed until 31 December 2009 and the Coventry will make a donation equal to 0.25% of the balances invested direct to the Poppy Appeal. This donation is in addition to the interest you’ll earn. So, for example, if you invest £20,000, we’ll make a donation of £50. Apply for a Poppy Bond now.
Give a virtual poppy on Facebook

Raise awareness of the Poppy Appeal by giving poppies to your Facebook friends. You can add the application to your own Facebook profile by visiting: http://apps.facebook.com/poppies/
Make a Donation

Buy a poppy from a Poppy Collector during the Remembrance period or make a donation to the Poppy Appeal online. Click here for more details.
Support our Campaign

The Royal British Legion is calling on Government to increase payments to elderly people below the poverty line. Find out how you can help at http://www.returntorationing.org.uk/.
Give your Time

Become a Poppy Collector, a volunteer caseworker, a hospital/housebound visitor or participate in fundraising events. Click here to find out more.

[Guest]

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It really shouldnt be just one day a year that we remember the fallen, help the injured, and feel pride for our armed forces. But one day is far better than never.

I agree.


Our God and Soldiers we alike adore,
Ev’n at the Brink of danger; not before:
After deliverance, both alike requited;
Our God’s forgotten, and our Soldiers slighted.

Francis Quarles (1592–1644)

[sam]

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One way that some may enjoy lots is to join your local British legion. Cheap beer ect. I think its £15 a year for guys and £5.00 for us ladies. No longer is it only for ex service.

[Tools]

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One way that some may enjoy lots is to join your local British legion. Cheap beer ect. I think its £15 a year for guys and £5.00 for us ladies. No longer is it only for ex service.

Most of my family already are and I can vouch for the cheap beer

[natweststaffmember]

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Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting(A Great poem from a great poet killed just a few days before the end of WWI, RIP).



It seemed that out of battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
Through granites which titanic wars had groined.

Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,
Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.
Then ,as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared
With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,
Lifting distressful hands, as if to bless.
And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, -
By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

With a thousand pains that vision's face was grained;
Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground,
And no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan.
'Strange friend,' I said, 'here is no cause to mourn.'
'None,' said that other, 'save the undone years,
The hopelessness. Whatever hope is yours,
Was my life also; I went hunting wild
After the wildest beauty in the world,
Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair,
But mocks the steady running of the hour,
And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here.
For by my glee might many men have laughed,
And of my weeping something had been left,
Which must die now. I mean the truth untold,
The pity of war, the pity war distilled.
Now men will go content with what we spoiled,
Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled.
They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress.
None will break ranks, though nations trek from progress.
Courage was mine, and I had mystery,
Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery:
To miss the march of this retreating world
Into vain citadels that are not walled.
Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels,
I would go up and wash them from sweet wells,
Even with truths that lie too deep for taint.
I would have poured my spirit without stint
But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.
Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were.

I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned
Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.
I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.
Let us sleep now...'

[enaid]

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The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance that was put on the BBC last night was fantastic. Something like that can only be done by us Brits IMHO and our Armed Forces are second to none IMO also.
I don't know the facts but there can not be many, if any, generation not affected by some sort of conflict somewhere.

In Flanders Fields

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.

John McCrae (1872 - 1918)

The American Moira Michael from Georgia, was the first person to wear a poppy in remembrance. In reply to McCrae's poem, she wrote a poem entitled 'We shall keep the faith' which includes the lines:

And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.

She bought some poppies, wore one, and sold the others, raising money for ex-servicemen. Her colleague, French YMCA Secretary Madame Guerin, took up the idea and made artificial poppies for war orphans. It caught on.
In November 1921, the British Legion and Austrian Returned Sailor's and Soldier's League sold them for the first time.

This is how it all started, I never knew the full story of the poppy either, but I do now.
Just lets hope it goes on for as long as needs be. Enaid x

[Tools]

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Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting(A Great poem from a great poet killed just a few days before the end of WWI, RIP).

For Nattie and anyone else who is interested:-

BBC4 tonight at 7.00pm

Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale
Jeremy Paxman presents a docudrama about tragic WW1 poet Wilfred Owen, telling the story of his life from a childhood in Shropshire to his death at the Battle of the Sambre. [S]
then after

8:00 pm The Edwardians in Colour: The...
...Wonderful World of Albert Kahn. 4/5. The Soldiers' Story: During the First World War, Kahn dispatched his photographers to the French battlefields. [AD,S]
9:00 pm Walter's War
Drama about the first black commissioned officer to lead British troops during WW1. Contains adult themes. [AD,S]