Eddie B 2:49 Wed Nov 5
The 2014 Remembrance Day Thread
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  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 will remember them.
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ironsofcanada
2:51 Wed Nov 5
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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Northern Sold
3:03 Wed Nov 5
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Great photos... those berets of the Royal Irish Rangers are something else... ha ha ha
Anyone been watching that the Passing Bells on BBC?? Not bad so far... like a not so good War Horse... without the Horse??
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Eddie B
3:07 Wed Nov 5
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NS, you'll be shocked to find out I am, although I'm a day behind. It was a good touch at the start to have both the young fellas going through the same thing (medical etc), but then you only realise a bit in that one of them is German.
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Northern Sold
3:13 Wed Nov 5
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Yeah cleverly done that Edward
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Eddie B
11:10 Thu Nov 6
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Who's going up to the Cenotaph on sunday, anyone?
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Far Cough
11:13 Thu Nov 6
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The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month
Lest we forget
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TWe
11:42 Thu Nov 6
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I'm going over to Ypres the week after next to visit my great grandads grave and got some tours booked up as well. Looking forward to it.
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Northern Sold
1:13 Sat Nov 8
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Just watched a very appropriate film for Rem' day... the Railway Man... quite simply superb... Colin Firth... what a performance
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Northern Sold
1:18 Sat Nov 8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbS_dYEwf2M
Trailer
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Takashi Miike
1:31 Sat Nov 8
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great photo this..... 
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SilverSurfer
1:36 Sat Nov 8
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"Soul Love"
Stone love - she kneels before the grave
A brave son - who gave his life
to save the slogans
That hovers between the headstone and her eyes
For they penetrate her grieving
New love - a boy and girl are talking
New words - that only they can share in
New words - a love so strong it tears their hearts
To sleep - through the fleeting hours of morning
[CHORUS]
Love is careless in its choosing
Sweeping over cross a baby
Love descends on those defenceless
Idiot love will spark the fusion
Inspirations have I none
Just to touch the flaming dove
All I have is my love of love
And love is not loving
Soul love - the priest that tastes the word and
Told of love - and how my God on high is
All love - though reaching up my loneliness
evolves
By the blindness that surrounds him
[CHORUS]
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Darlo Debs
1:37 Sat Nov 8
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this humbles us all.
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SilverSurfer
1:45 Sat Nov 8
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Darlo Debs wrote...
This humbles us all.
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On Sunday at our local remembrance service, I will feel humble and maybe even shed a tear.
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then I will be angry, especially to the recent events,
_________________________________________ trouble is, there is nowhere to vent that anger, as it isn't PC
And that's the rub.
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Brussels Sprout
1:49 Sat Nov 8
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When you go home tell them of us and say:
For your tomorrow we gave our today.
Grandad and godfather (who's still around) both got the Burma Star.
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Hammer and Pickle
1:51 Sat Nov 8
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This one goes out for all those who have been forgotten.
I salute you.
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BRANDED
1:56 Sat Nov 8
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I'm off to Belgium at the end of the month. Beers and cemeteries. My great grandad is in Tyne Cot.
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Alfie
2:54 Sat Nov 8
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Even if
Being busy and poor of hours
Just fleeting you pause a time
And turn mind to find
Their faces hoving
Into view: coming up anew,
Countless Faced khaki hat clad
Hands outstretched to grasp glad
futures they neither touched nor had.
Even if
You stop pace awhile to think of the very much
That has been deprived them
The length of the days we live denied them:
their hours dwindled and
dying hours our futues kindled.
Even if
Just awhile, you think of Them:
Even if - just fleeting -
You pause to recall, then
Their job was worhtwhile.
Even if when gone
Their presence Remains
Then even we know they did not go in vain
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sand iron
8:27 Sat Nov 8
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TWe
I'm thinking of going Tuesday, I haven't booked a tour yet, would you recommend booking one prior to going & do you know of a decent tour company?
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bobbymoore
8:52 Sat Nov 8
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RIP Joe, Baz and Ben
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