Lest We Forget

[Excalabur50]

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 wiil remember them
Lest We Forget


To all who have served or still serve we give thanks, and to those that made the ultimate sacrifice we give thanks, Lest We Forget.

 

[Wraith]

Amen.

 

[AlienALX]

Respect.

 

[Kaapstad]

I have been trying to buy a poppy but for some reason no one seems to be selling them anywhere near me.

This is one charity I really want to support as my a lot of my South African family members served in WW2.

My granddad was badly wounded in Italy and one of my uncles was serving in the merchant navy and his ship got torpedoed, fortunately he survived.

Another one of my uncles did 2 years national service in South Africa and then came to England and did 22 years in the British army finishing as RSM in the Queens own Hussars.

Edit just found the British Legion online and made a donation but I still don't get a poppy.

 

[AlienALX]

My Grandad was caught and put in a German POW camp for six months. He would never talk to me about what happened there.

In fact, he never spoke of any of it to me. I guess he saw me as vulnerable (I didn't like horror films etc). He did speak to my brother about some stuff though. He said that they were once in a trench. Him "Smithy" "Spotty" etc. They all seemed to have nicknames, I guess for morale. Any way, Smithy went down during battle. They managed to drive the Germans back eventually and went to check on Smithy. He had been shot in the head. Not how you would think though. Basically a bullet had caught Smithy's helmet on the inside rim and basically flew around the rim and scalped him. He then bled to death.

TBH knowing some of the true horrors that went on during war time I would imagine that was a pretty mellow story.

Can you actually imagine that? like, kneeling in a dirty muddy trench in the freezing cold not knowing when you are going to die? Or being on a ship and being torpedoed? that's just ******* nuts man.

We will forget though. We will get to the generation who does not have grandparents that went through it and inevitably with us being a bit stupid we will do it all over again.

I just hope the PC crowd do not stop this generation seeing the true horrors of what happened in WW2. I also hope that they continue to use it as a subject in History and so on.

 

[Warchild]

I always love seeing posts like this. Proves everyone wrong that the younger generation actually do care about those who fought and died for our freedom. Being ex RAF it really makes me smile seeing your posts.

Managed to get my poppy, and proudly wearing it around Oslo.

Thanks!... leased1:

 

[Excalabur50]

TBH I don't know that it will die out as over here the tradition of remembrance and ANZAC day being passed on to the younger generation is growing not fading

 

[AlienALX]

TBH I don't know that it will die out as over here the tradition of remembrance and ANZAC day being passed on to the younger generation is growing not fading

I don't think remembrance day will die out here in the UK either but we are slowly being told to shut our mouth over it all. For example, the FA said it would fine UK teams for wearing poppies. We're going to do it any way apparently but yeah, forking PC crowd trying to neutralise anything about history that isn't very PC.

A few years back a mosque in Portsmouth was burning poppies. So some one burnt it down.

 

[Kaapstad]

My granddad never saw 50 due to being wounded in WW2 but like all South Africans who were volunteers they saw it as doing their bit.

 

[AlienALX]

I did my two minutes of silence at 11:11. My social worker was courteous enough to do it also

I removed my hat obs. My grandfather taught me that, he taught me respect. He always used to remove his cap every time a funeral car passed. I remember asking him why and he just said "Respect, son".

An amazing person.

 

[tinytomlogan]

I did my two minutes of silence at 11:11. My social worker was courteous enough to do it also

I removed my hat obs. My grandfather taught me that, he taught me respect. He always used to remove his cap every time a funeral car passed. I remember asking him why and he just said "Respect, son".

An amazing person.

Something that seems to be a rare trait with the newer generations

 

[Asperatis]

I did my two minutes of silence at 11:11. My social worker was courteous enough to do it also

I removed my hat obs. My grandfather taught me that, he taught me respect. He always used to remove his cap every time a funeral car passed. I remember asking him why and he just said "Respect, son".

An amazing person.

That's amazing indeed. It's a real shame how so many people nowadays lack a great deal of respect for many things other than their own interest

 

[AlienALX]

Something that seems to be a rare trait with the newer generations

It's just not being taught tbh. Seriously my grandad would literally stop, face the funeral car and remove his cap. I said "But grandad, you didn't know that person" and he would simply say "Doesn't matter".

I've done it ever since tbh.

 

[tinytomlogan]

I have a weird habbit of nodding or saying "enjoy your last run"

 

[AlienALX]

I have a weird habbit of nodding or saying "enjoy your last run"

Even acknowledging it and saying a word to yourself is respect man. Kids these days? probably don't even friggin notice what's going on further than their mobile phone.