The Glorious Dead
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We weren't on our doorstep, can't comment on neighbours as I was at the back of the house.
As usual I stopped for today's 2 minute silence and will do again on the 11th. I thought about my dad and the other 'lads' who volunteered. I recall him playing the last post and revillie at our church cenotaph. I remember my great uncle listed on The Menien Gate, a lad I was at senior school with who lost his legs in NI as well as the numerous service personnel who served and still serve. I also consider the mother's whose son/s went off to serve, how did they cope? Puts stay at home into prospective as far as I'm concerned........
This is the first year I haven't got a poppy to wear and I'm very sad about that. However, I did give an extremely generous donation this year when I discovered a collection tin in the greengrocer's, few poppies left so the dog has the collar clip.
Rememberance is personal and emphasised so much more this year. I also included those who caught Covid whilst helping and nursing others.
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We have attended our local memorial service pretty much since we came here 32 years back, we always go unless it is pouring with rain, which strangely has rarely happened.
The local service was cancelled today, and it is very wet here, so we observed the silence in our living room while watching the broadcast from London. OH's grandfather was lost on a minesweeper off the Suffolk coast in 1940.
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Following up on B2's post, I was at Thiepval some years back and saw my name on the memorial. What was even spookier was that the date was my birthday.
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😱 very disconcerting!
Met my brother and sister in law at our parents grave, did a quick tidy. Brother had managed to get 2 poppies which we put on their grave. Felt better knowing they could 'wear' their poppies. Mum always did a lovely poppy arrangement in silk flowers for dad's grave, which I thought I brought home when we cleared their house, if I did I've put them in a very safe place!
Nice to see there had been an improvised service memorial in the churchyard, there is no cenotaph at that church just plaques on the inside church wall with the names of the fallen. There was a homemade wooden cross and about a dozen RBL rememberance crosses resembling a grave. Very poignant.
We then took ourselves off on a walk around the fields. Socially distanced too 😉.
It was a very foggy mild morning, then glorious sunshine for an hour or two, but it has clouded over all very atmospheric.
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I feel they would want us to survive. That’s why they gave their lives.
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They gave their lives to defend Democracy. That's where the people choose their representative and governments are formed.
Whether I agree with this lot running the show is neither here or there. They won an election and get to make decisions. If we don't like it then we can vote them out again in a few years time.
This is what my father taught me at a young age. Not long after he had returned from abroad with hand grenade shrapnel wounds incurred whilst on duty. He was a socialist but didn't hold the Conservative government of the day any grudge for sending him there. It's what he signed up for. So, no, he wouldn't have viewed the precautions as pathetic, even if he disagreed with them.
We stood across from our little memorial in the village to mark our respects today. There were a few, properly distanced, all of them dressed for a walk. We just happened to be there at 11.00.
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