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Offline Landsurfer74

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Remembrance Sunday.
« on: November 12, 2022, 08:52:12 »
And here we are again.
Another year goes by and the medals come out for a polish.
Another day of grandad being left to be quiet, if he wants, as he gets a bit emotional.
To the Cenotaph in town, with the grandchildren some years.
Tomorrow it will be on the VStrom with my grandson.
We did Ride To The Wall this year, that was a hard day.
Comrades lost, coffins carried (full of sandbags), friends remembered.
My wars ? Northern Ireland, Falkland Islands and GW1.
To all Veterans, of all wars, and all those that have served; Respect.
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Offline Steve T

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Re: Remembrance Sunday.
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2022, 17:39:01 »
Commnado Monument for me tomorrow
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Re: Remembrance Sunday.
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2022, 20:46:39 »
A few quiet moments of reflection for me tomorrow after I rode to the Somme a couple of weeks ago to visit the graves of two great uncles who both died in 1916.
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Re: Remembrance Sunday.
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2022, 21:30:33 »
I shall attend the local service to pay my respects and then make my way to the pub across the road to toast those who we owe our freedom to.

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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Offline Landsurfer74

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Re: Remembrance Sunday.
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2022, 18:35:27 »
The gable end of a house on the Kilcooley Estate, Bangor, Ulster. .... there are many more, similar, within the Province.

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Offline Steve T

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Re: Remembrance Sunday.
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2022, 19:01:14 »
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Re: Remembrance Sunday.
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2022, 07:23:10 »
I also went. People from my country fight together with British army in WW2.
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Re: Remembrance Sunday.
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2022, 07:54:49 »
A timely reminder, Pichulec. It would have been a very different outcome without all Allied Forces.
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Re: Remembrance Sunday.
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2022, 08:38:47 »
Quote from: Steve T on November 13, 2022, 19:01:14


One of the 3 men used as models for this memorial was the father of an acquaintance of mine from Redruth. His dad was Cornish born and bred and survived WW2, and the Commando’s, to return to the mining industry in Redruth. His son has lived in Redruth and Camborne all his life and has a photograph of his dad at the memorial taken in the 60’s.
His father was a hero, in that he did heroic things, not just turned up for another shift at the NHS.
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Re: Remembrance Sunday.
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2022, 09:08:03 »
" not just turned up for another shift at the NHS."

Unnecessary, especially in this thread.
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Re: Remembrance Sunday.
« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2022, 15:58:49 »
Of course Rusty, I am not saying it is different 😉
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Re: Remembrance Sunday.
« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2022, 16:48:15 »
Pichulec, I was referring to a certain type of Englishman who thinks England won the war. Single-handedly, at that.
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Re: Remembrance Sunday.
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2022, 19:49:08 »
I see, understand now.
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