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    Remembrance Sunday

    I shall run in wearing my Poppy with pride at tomorrows race and urge all others to do the same over this weekend.

    We owe a lot to our service man and women.

    God bless them all.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njK5K...eature=related

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    Re: Remebrance Sunday

    Well said

    Race I'm doing on Sunday has a one minute silence before the off.
    If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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    My Boy will be carrying the flag again at this years parade - although the little tike moaned it was uncomfy and heavy last year

    Recieved a wry smile in sainsburys the other day from a fellow shopper who overheard our 5 year old daughter telling everybody why we indeed wear poppies - it's importnat to keep those memories alive

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    Re: Remembrance Sunday

    Quote Originally Posted by powsels and thrums View Post
    Defence cuts really are kicking in now, aren't they.
    A rather appropriate forum-name you have for you to have posted such a totally inappropriate comment.
    ...there's a hill nearby missing its fool...

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    Re: Remembrance Sunday

    No fratching on my thread.

    This is a serious day.

    Just pinned my Poppy on to my vest.

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    I shall be wearing mine too. The debt we owe the fallen will never be repaid except to live our lives in peace and humility.
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    Re: Remembrance Sunday

    I was on Great Gable for last years Remembrance Sunday, I'm not going to be able to make it there this year, but I will be still wearing my poppy.

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    I always wear my poppy with pride. Sadly not many young people seem to. I have done a bit of research into my family's military history in the First World War and it really brings home to to you the bravery of these men and the sacrifices they made.

    http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/ww1fren.../lapugnoy1.htm

    We visited this cemetary in northern France last year to find my great uncles war grave. He lied about his age to join up and was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915. Although it is one of the smaller cemetaries it was a very moving experience to see so many identical white headstones. We just put 'Perfect Peace' in the visitors book

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    Re: Remembrance Sunday

    I've always struggled a bit with poppies.

    On the one hand great sacrifices have been made, while on another hand the first world war (and many others) was surely nothing to do with our freedom.

    The British Legion provides wonderful support for ex-service people, but takes money from the arms trade, and rather questionably launched this year's poppy appeal in Iraq.

    Remembrance Sunday is a good thing though (and perhaps it should be a weekly event). I'll keep at least two minutes silence while racing tomorrow, bent double, knock-kneed and coughing as I curse through sludge.

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    Re: Remembrance Sunday

    Quote Originally Posted by Mud View Post
    I'll keep at least two minutes silence while racing tomorrow, bent double, knock-kneed and coughing as I curse through sludge.
    'Till on the haunting marshalls we turned our backs and towards our distant trig began to trudge.

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