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Tomorrow is Remembrance Sunday in the UK. As a result of the Covid lockdown, the tributes will not be as they should be.

This is mine.

IN MEMORIAM

The regiments of men, inch perfect, stand in line
Unflinching in the weather, wind, snow, rain and shine
The place they stand is green and beautifully kept,
The watchers wipe their eyes from tears that they have wept.
White headstones they all are, as far as eyes can see,
Lives laid down for country and for people to be free.
Walking through the graveyard, reading names and dates below
The young, the old, and boys who lied so they could go
One wonders how they felt at what they had to see
Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori

Lest we forget

Lest we forget

At the going down of the sun
We WILL REMEMBER THEM

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43rdRecceReg wrote:

The British Legion are producing a lapel pin similar to that picture. The fallen should always be remembered. Along with the survivors that only survived in the physical sense.

Tasteful, Mick.
However, not much equals the 'river' of poppies flowing out of the Tower of London, a few years back. I only wish I'd managed to buy one of those ceramic poppy specials.
Here's something I saw in a neighbouring village,this morning. Highland and Scottish divisions, paid a heavy price in both wars. (Click to ENLARGE)

I listened to a veteran on TV yesterday, he referred to it as organised murder. It made me think.

I salute them all!

Barry

Well done gent's!

In the States our Veteran's Day is coming up on the 11th. I've always found this little poem moving:

If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.

Major Micheal Davis O'Donnell
January 1st, 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

Amen,
Eric.

I had planned painting a Sherman in some sort of rememberance theme but in true forum style I have to many projects on the go so it has not yet been started, that being said my respects have been paid in the same way as the millions, by standing on my doorstep sporting a poppy and observing the silence. Not what I had planned but my respects have been paid and will be paid again on Thursday