Yep early 20s would be my guessandy2007 wrote:It doesn't help, that the Schools don't allow Children to observe Armistace Day.Would I be right in thinking that the lady who wanted to interrupt you, was under 30?
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... eneration/
most probably a lot of people were working when this was televised.this being the last memorable date that the last surviving soldiers from ww1 will be able to attend,when they die ww1 will be placed into history.a very emotional day.
Aftermath
Have you forgotten yet?...
For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways:
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,
Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.
But the past is just the same--and War's a bloody game...
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.
Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz--
The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?
Do you remember the rats; and the stench
Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench--
And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?
Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?'
Do you remember that hour of din before the attack--
And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then
As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
With dying eyes and lolling heads--those ashen-grey
Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you'll never forget.
Siegfried Sassoon
hopefully we will never forget.
most probably a lot of people were working when this was televised.this being the last memorable date that the last surviving soldiers from ww1 will be able to attend,when they die ww1 will be placed into history.a very emotional day.
Aftermath
Have you forgotten yet?...
For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways:
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,
Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.
But the past is just the same--and War's a bloody game...
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.
Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz--
The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?
Do you remember the rats; and the stench
Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench--
And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?
Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?'
Do you remember that hour of din before the attack--
And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then
As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
With dying eyes and lolling heads--those ashen-grey
Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you'll never forget.
Siegfried Sassoon
hopefully we will never forget.
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Thank goodness for that! Perhaps it's just my area, that doesn't seem to care anymore.linkinpark wrote:My kids schools stopped EVERYTHING at 11.00 hours till 11.02 to remember! They were all told about it ages ago and it was worked into lessons about what it was about and were all reminded at assembley that day! My son marched and paraded at the cenotaph with the CF on Sunday and he has swagger the cocky little f*cker. LOL. But we will remember!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ATYzDhrMI
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