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Remembrance Sunday..

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toffeejack said:
Beautiful service as always, regularly makes me teary eyed even though i have no family which fought in either war. Their sacrifice will never ever be forgotten nor should it be allowed to. I will remember them until my dying breath.

lest we forget
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I worked the S.O.R. evety year for 13 years at St Georges. Always very cold, usually wet. Took a lot of organising, patience and planning, handled perfectly by one of our managers.

Every year it was upstaged by the self importance of certain local figures, non military. Self entitled ar seholes.

I always kept my staff away, behind the scenes, and our priority was those who couldn't make it out onto the plateau through health and disability issues. We would sit and they would tell me stories of the campaigns they were on, I'd tell them about my old man's campaigns. They were always dignified, respectful of those who were absent, none 'glorified ' what they had seen or been through, the opposite to the political bandwagoners who milked the ceremony.

Afterwards there would be a reception, tea, sandwiches etc, again limited, and revolving around personality, but we would bring people in different ways get then tea, coffee etc , let them thaw out.

Liverpool's Service of Remembrance is always well attended and well appreciated by ordinary people, and while sombre reflection is the thinking behind it, in the darkest places you find humour, one veteran of the Somme or some well known 'battle', told me after a conversation, 'war is sh1t' and smiled.

It is that.
 
magicjuan said:
I worked the S.O.R. evety year for 13 years at St Georges. Always very cold, usually wet. Took a lot of organising, patience and planning, handled perfectly by one of our managers.

Every year it was upstaged by the self importance of certain local figures, non military. Self entitled ar seholes.

I always kept my staff away, behind the scenes, and our priority was those who couldn't make it out onto the plateau through health and disability issues. We would sit and they would tell me stories of the campaigns they were on, I'd tell them about my old man's campaigns. They were always dignified, respectful of those who were absent, none 'glorified ' what they had seen or been through, the opposite to the political bandwagoners who milked the ceremony.

Afterwards there would be a reception, tea, sandwiches etc, again limited, and revolving around personality, but we would bring people in different ways get then tea, coffee etc , let them thaw out.

Liverpool's Service of Remembrance is always well attended and well appreciated by ordinary people, and while sombre reflection is the thinking behind it, in the darkest places you find humour, one veteran of the Somme or some well known 'battle', told me after a conversation, 'war is sh1t' and smiled.

It is that.
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This is the problem I have with the whole thing these days. Everybody is desperate to show how much they respect the fallen and make sure they are seen doing it.
 

Lowste said:
I despair at times as people can be so blindsided in what they write

It maybe worth remembering you may not of been able to write the nonsense you do now without the sacrifices of so many.
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My point us that I don't need Rod Stewart and Pixie Lott to tell me this.
 
dandydan said:
Genuine opinion, your taking offence at questioning anything to do with the day kind of proves my point.
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Start your own thread and ask a poll if it's relevant to honour the fallen anymore ?
You can have your moment in the spotlight and be as controversial as you like.
A thread about Remembrance Sunday shouldn't be filled by tripe.
 
Toast said:
Start your own thread and ask a poll if it's relevant to honour the fallen anymore ?
You can have your moment in the spotlight and be as controversial as you like.
A thread about Remembrance Sunday shouldn't be filled by tripe.
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Tripe? criticising people who tip up only to enhance their public profile? But it's good to see how much you respect the fallen.
 
Lowste said:
I despair at times as people can be so blindsided in what they write

It maybe worth remembering you may not of been able to write the nonsense you do now without the sacrifices of so many.
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Interesting discussion in the Graun yesterday, about privacy being a 20th century anomaly, and by extension the freedom of speech that comes with it.

There's a rather dark argument that says human society needs bleak wars to get conflict out of their system, in order to progress. I really hope this isn't the case...can't objectively say for sure.

Privacy is starting to seem like a very 20th-century anomaly
 


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