Brilliant pictures averyone,I would have liked to have been there,but the pics helped fill a void. As to the arm swinging when marching, you march easier when your arms keep time with your legs.Trying to march with your arms at your sides is a bit like Irish dancing,very hard and needs lots of practise.
Excellent photos, Robbo and Spike. Thank you for sharing.
There is more power in the open hand than the clenched fist
Can't say I've been a big fan of that video screen but it really came into its own today - what a good use of it.
May we never forget.
Thank you for the sentiments and photographs everyone. The only thing I can think about now is that yours and my poor relatives may have fought battles and a "Great War" and won freedom for us through their dripping blood, clotting on cold, congealing mud. But what a sham our freedom is today for our brave boys when we are turning on each other and stabbing and shooting our fellow human beings in the same cold blood as when they did all those years ago on foreign soils. What price freedom?.....It seems it's too cheap today. Some of the scum of today should have a glimpse of what our forefathers went through to give them the freedom of todays world, and perhaps, perhaps, there might be a bit more tolerance, harmony, and love mingling in our streets and roads today.
I have several relatives that have been left on "Flanders Field" who will always remain 19. I am glad that they are not here today to see the legacy that they fought for but has gone so bloody sour.
R.I.P. FOREVER 19
Well said Potter.
Same here. I think all that fought (and died) would be appalled at the state of our country and our so-called freedom. Freedom, where pensioners can't even go out of the house without fear of being threatened by some little scumbag...and in some cases not only pensioners...
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nice to see the pics of yesterday. I wasn't able to make it into town this year, but I'll be taking my gt uncles Remembrance cross down tomorrow.
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Hi Spike
Your post is important. I wonder if you would allow me to copy it to a First World War site that I have recently joined? Thanks for considering this request, Spike.
Chris
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Yes Chris feel free to use it.
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Thank you Spike, only just seen that and thank you for mentioning and remembering my grandad. I didn't know him but as a father now who had a fantastic upbringing from my dad who wasn't rich in money but was rich in humanity, love and common sense, think sadly now of him being deprived of his dad at aged just 6, he can remember his dad buying him a bike though once.
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It also goes to show that there's little truth in using the fact of not having two guiding parents as an excuse for skullduggery if you can show yourself to be responsible for your own actions. I wonder if losing his dad to WWI injuries was a deciding factor in him volunteering for duties for WWII - so many questions I should have asked but didn't.
Thanks again as your posting is spot on.
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