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Nite nite Fans!

Dea Xxx

You're too old for all that Fans....hats orf for trying

She's not just 'trying' Ginns - She is DOING it !!!

Hats orf indeed !!! - I couldn't do it!

Dea Xxx

Hi all
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heard the planes going overhead to the Cenotaph service



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OOhhh goody !!!

No Friday play tonight which means I can go to bed when I want to!

Orf very soon then - nite nite all,

Dea Xxx

Cyn

re your comment about tears on Sunday


so far as I know, the UK is the only country that has its Cenotaph Services on a day other than November 11.

All of ours were today, sometimes 6 or 7 services in one town.

The US does not recognise Remembrance Day ..... it is only observed in Commonwealth countries. November 11 however is called Veterans Day in the US , and is celebrated with parades and observances, it is both a Federal and State holiday.

Not sure what happens in OZ and NZ ....... I think Australia has Cenotaph services on the 11th, but it is not a national holiday. Anzac Day in April is now of more importance. NZ celebrates Anzac Day.


Outside the UK, Nov 11 is observed as a national holiday in France and Belgium, being conisdered one of the most important days.


Today is a Statutory Holiday in Canada ............. and the numbers of young people attending have been growing fro the last 5 or 6 years.



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night night fans and dea


sleep tight
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Hi Sylvs,

There have been 2 minutes silences all around the place today but, as you know, the official day is Sunday. I love watching the service in London when the Queen lays a wreath.


We have a big service at church on Remembrance Day and it literally is, standing room only. Even the aisles are crammed with children sitting crosslegged. I can do that anymore :-(


Poor Dea.....what a shattering time you have had and a dented purse into the bargain! Get a good rest. Night night.


Fans........you're really getting into the swing of this aren't you ? Mind you, you are a bit long in the tooth for swings :-P


It's my OH's birthday tomorrow so I sneaked upstairs before to wrap a few little prezzies for him. He is SO hard to buy for and says he has everything he needs....me being the main thing apparently!! Bless. <3


The kids are coming round for a Chinese take away tomorrow night - just hoping he doesn't go into 'freezing' mode part way through... :-S


Has anyone noticed the Find box above, along with Previous, Next & Options? I suppose someone will tell me that it has been there for years........

What find box?

I still don't have one... but I can sit on the floor cross legged..

Pxx

I cannot see a Find box either

So why do every other country have today as a holiday and we dont?? I would think that's why we have our service on a sunday as in the past most people did not work that day??

wish I could sit crossed legged on the floor Persie :-D

Find box?


I don't have one either??


Discrimination!


overseas members can't see the find box :-D :-D

It was pouring with rain all morning ................. yet the numbers in attendance at Remembrance Services at the Cenotaphs are still increasing.

More and more young people are attending, and young families are taking their children to the services.


Nice to see.


The rain stopped about noon ......... but we have just had thunder, a hailstorm, and a cloud burst! All in the space of about 10 minutes!!

We also have a wind warning for later this afternoon.



correction ........... the first blast of wind has just arrived!



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hmmmmmmm


so I can't claim overseas member discrimination ........ unless Essex counts as overseas :-D :-D :-D



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Important announcement from GR

Dear Persie

I've just had a look at the post and without reading the whole thread I'm really not sure why it was reported or removed. I can't see anything offensive in it and it looks like we made a mistake.

Please accept our apologies Persie - I really am sorry about this.

Kind Regards,

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I am putting this up not just for you lot but for whoever did it... hmmm

Cyns has delirium....

We had lots of cenotaph remembrance items on the news this morning. The big one is when Liz turns up on Sunday I guess

ja...x


I don't know why the UK abandoned the Cenotaph services on November 11 and moved to having them on the Second Sunday in November.

I can't even remember when that decision was made.


I do find it rather strange that the Sunday, not November 11, is the day you observe.


It seems to me that remembrance has more meaning when all the services, flypasts, salutes etc are at 11 am on November 11.


That of course does not mean that churches here do not have special services on either the Sunday before or Sunday after.

Schools here also have major remembrance ceremonies and services on November 10. It is quite amazing what soem of them do ...... and most are organised, planned and executed by the students themselves.

Okay....calm down you daft lot. It WAS there, I swear it. Just under where I have my IE logo with Genes Reunited at the side. It also had a little x by it. When I clicked on the x the box disappeared and I have absolutely no idea how to get it back or even how it arrived in the first place. :-S :-S



But....I am really thrilled. The photo of my Grandad on the left is also on FB. My cousin's daughter in Canada commented that she loves the photo of her gt.grandfather and that she has those medals in Canada. I was a bit taken aback by that because I know I have them here. :-S


We chatted for a while on FB and she posted a picture of them. I was astounded as they are a totally different set from the ones I have and from his earlier time in the Victorian era. I need to verify them but I think they will be part of his involvement in the Boxer Uprising. She also has his certificate for being Mentioned in Despatches signed by Winston Churchill.

She desperately wants me to have them - she says the pictures are enough for her and I was his granddaughter. I am overwhelmed by her thoughts and have gorn all goosebumpy at the prospect of handling this token of history of my famiy.

Fink I had better go to bed to recover my equilibrium.....

:-D :-D


Night all......from one very happy bunny. Thanks FB. :-D

There was even a service at the Canadian Cenotaph on the airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

This was erected there by our soldiers ............... and it will be carefully taken apart tomorrow, and shipped to Ottawa where it will be rebuilt on a suitable site.


It commemorates the 158 soldiers and 4 civilians killed in Afghanistan from the day Canada went there to the end of last month ............... let's hope there are no more!

Canadians are now out of fighting, but about 1000 will be there training Afghans, so they are still in danger.


That Cenotaph is rather unique ............ it is more like a 4-sided cairn, covered with plaques, one for each event in wich a soldier (or soldiers) were killed. Each plaque has the soldier's name AND an engraved photograph.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/11/10/afghan-cenotaph.html




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Cyn


how wonderful!

that's very kind of your cousin's daughter.




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Here it is only holiday for Feds and banks so most were working but we had a wonderful attendance at our local Cenotaph.

Unfortunately being in charge of logistics and policing I couldn't see much of it when it happened, however as it was being broadcast live I recorded the entire ceremony and was able to watch it when I got home.

As is the tradition when the ceremony was over I, along with many, placed my poppy on a wreath, and as I did I spent a moment thinking of my great uncle Alexander Hill, mentioned before on this post who made the ultimate sacrifice in Ypres, August 16, 1917.

"We will remember them"

R