Lest we forget....
Oct 25th 2008, 6:32 pm
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Re: Lest we forget....
Those of us who have tend to have a completely different view.
Oct 25th 2008, 6:44 pm
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Re: Lest we forget....
I hereby forgive Bangleman all his anti-Luton Town poisoned bigotry.
Birdsong is the finest novel I have ever read (even if the love scene did win him the 'Bad Sex Prize').
Utterly moving, and compulsory reading for anyone who thinks war is a bit of a jingoistic foray to sort out some uppity natives...........
Birdsong is the finest novel I have ever read (even if the love scene did win him the 'Bad Sex Prize').
Utterly moving, and compulsory reading for anyone who thinks war is a bit of a jingoistic foray to sort out some uppity natives...........
Just about to start Engleby, another Faulks novel, which I've heard good things about
p.s. Luton are still shite !
Oct 25th 2008, 6:47 pm
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Re: Lest we forget....
Thanks Eva, will take a look at the Dubliners version..
Have a look at the Springsteen one on YouTube....saw him play it live last year (4 times...as am a bit of a Springsteen groupie...lol) and it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up !
Have a look at the Springsteen one on YouTube....saw him play it live last year (4 times...as am a bit of a Springsteen groupie...lol) and it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up !
Nov 3rd 2008, 5:10 am
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Haven't seen him since 2003, Stade France-rained moonsoon style for
the whole show but no-one seemed to notice.
Lest We Forget
IN THE TRENCHES
I snatched two poppies
From the parapet’s ledge,
Two bright red poppies
That winked on the ledge.
Behind my ear
I stuck one through,
One blood red poppy
I gave to you.
The sandbags narrowed
And screwed out our jest,
And tore the poppy
You had on your breast ...
Down - a shell - O! Christ,
I am choked ... safe ... dust blind, I
See trench floor poppies
Strewn. Smashed you lie.
Isaac Rosenberg
Born Bristol 1890
Died Somme 1918.
Nov 8th 2008, 4:05 am
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Re: Lest we forget....
Nice one EW
Nov 8th 2008, 4:33 am
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Have you lot all got your Poppies yet?
Nov 8th 2008, 5:13 am
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Poppy is worn with pride. Will have my private minutes silence on the 11th to reflect.
Nov 8th 2008, 6:37 am
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When I worked in the City I always used to walk out to the memorial garden at St Paul's Cathedral at 11.00 on the 11th Nov for the two minute silence and the eulogy.
One year my boss tried to stop me ("We're too busy"), so I told him to go and f-ck himself. He called Personnel Dept to report me for my outrageous behaviour and language............. but there was no reply - Personnel Dept were all outside, waiting for me to join them.
Always an utterly moving moment, made specially so one year when a cabbie came and stood beside me. Afterwards I asked him if he'd lost anyone in the war.
"Oh yeah" he said. "Grandad in the First, dad in the Second.........".
Lest we forget, indeed...........
One year my boss tried to stop me ("We're too busy"), so I told him to go and f-ck himself. He called Personnel Dept to report me for my outrageous behaviour and language............. but there was no reply - Personnel Dept were all outside, waiting for me to join them.
Always an utterly moving moment, made specially so one year when a cabbie came and stood beside me. Afterwards I asked him if he'd lost anyone in the war.
"Oh yeah" he said. "Grandad in the First, dad in the Second.........".
Lest we forget, indeed...........
Nov 8th 2008, 7:33 am
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When I worked in the City I always used to walk out to the memorial garden at St Paul's Cathedral at 11.00 on the 11th Nov for the two minute silence and the eulogy.
One year my boss tried to stop me ("We're too busy"), so I told him to go and f-ck himself. He called Personnel Dept to report me for my outrageous behaviour and language............. but there was no reply - Personnel Dept were all outside, waiting for me to join them.
Always an utterly moving moment, made specially so one year when a cabbie came and stood beside me. Afterwards I asked him if he'd lost anyone in the war.
"Oh yeah" he said. "Grandad in the First, dad in the Second.........".
Lest we forget, indeed...........
One year my boss tried to stop me ("We're too busy"), so I told him to go and f-ck himself. He called Personnel Dept to report me for my outrageous behaviour and language............. but there was no reply - Personnel Dept were all outside, waiting for me to join them.
Always an utterly moving moment, made specially so one year when a cabbie came and stood beside me. Afterwards I asked him if he'd lost anyone in the war.
"Oh yeah" he said. "Grandad in the First, dad in the Second.........".
Lest we forget, indeed...........
I have sat many a day in the gardens of St Paul's -p'haps not on 11.11. but
very peaceful place in the madness of the city.
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Nov 8th 2008, 6:53 pm
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My most ponient remembrance day service was one that i attended on the flightdeck of my ship, on 11th November 1998 in San carlos Bay, Falkland Islands. We were anchored above HMS Antelope, which was sunk, then we sent down our divers to change the ensign on the wreckage.
As my birthday is the 11th, i always requested to read a passage at the service, and when i read out the 'we will remember them', to see the look the men next to me who 16 years previously had been here in much different circumstances, some of them survivors of HMS Sheffield, Coventry and my mate Ray who was on the Antelope when it was hit (although it sank much later), was something i will never forget.
As was attending the remembrance service in 2003 remembering the fallen in Iraqi Freedom..Remembering the lives of people whose demise, so pointless and tragic as non peacetime accidents are, is something i always reflect on.
And to those who glorify conflict, ill easily take a moment to explain what the reality is...
As my birthday is the 11th, i always requested to read a passage at the service, and when i read out the 'we will remember them', to see the look the men next to me who 16 years previously had been here in much different circumstances, some of them survivors of HMS Sheffield, Coventry and my mate Ray who was on the Antelope when it was hit (although it sank much later), was something i will never forget.
As was attending the remembrance service in 2003 remembering the fallen in Iraqi Freedom..Remembering the lives of people whose demise, so pointless and tragic as non peacetime accidents are, is something i always reflect on.
And to those who glorify conflict, ill easily take a moment to explain what the reality is...
Nov 8th 2008, 7:30 pm
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My most ponient remembrance day service was one that i attended on the flightdeck of my ship, on 11th November 1998 in San carlos Bay, Falkland Islands. We were anchored above HMS Antelope, which was sunk, then we sent down our divers to change the ensign on the wreckage.
As my birthday is the 11th, i always requested to read a passage at the service, and when i read out the 'we will remember them', to see the look the men next to me who 16 years previously had been here in much different circumstances, some of them survivors of HMS Sheffield, Coventry and my mate Ray who was on the Antelope when it was hit (although it sank much later), was something i will never forget.
As was attending the remembrance service in 2003 remembering the fallen in Iraqi Freedom..Remembering the lives of people whose demise, so pointless and tragic as non peacetime accidents are, is something i always reflect on.
And to those who glorify conflict, ill easily take a moment to explain what the reality is...
As my birthday is the 11th, i always requested to read a passage at the service, and when i read out the 'we will remember them', to see the look the men next to me who 16 years previously had been here in much different circumstances, some of them survivors of HMS Sheffield, Coventry and my mate Ray who was on the Antelope when it was hit (although it sank much later), was something i will never forget.
As was attending the remembrance service in 2003 remembering the fallen in Iraqi Freedom..Remembering the lives of people whose demise, so pointless and tragic as non peacetime accidents are, is something i always reflect on.
And to those who glorify conflict, ill easily take a moment to explain what the reality is...
Never realised a post on a message board could be so moving - well done.
