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Repton School have RBL poppies in reception now if you know anyone with kids there.

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In Dubai, the contact for donation tins and boxes of poppies is Cpt Higgins RN (rtd), or his secretary Lorraine, at Dubai college - 04 3999111. If a few of us go the route of organising sales then everyone wins.

CH

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Time to bump this up....



Aftermath

Siegfried Sassoon (1919)


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.

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For The Fallen
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.

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Ive corrected that out of respect to the countless Scots/Welsh and NI servicemen and civilians who have lost their lives defending our country

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Thanks

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can you believe this....

utterly disgusting. Cant they just shut up for a couple of minutes to pay respect to those who have fallen in past and current conflicts..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2HwPjjj4aY

Then you see this clip from Sky news of this woman who has lost her husband. Now that is how to hold your head up high and with dignity..

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-...es_Best_Friend

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11/11/09 11am California time.

Never forget

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well done. i had a minutes silence at 11am..as i do every year.

1st year without any WW1 veterans..

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and 108 more to remember since last year !

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yes...very sad.

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I think there is a RN survivor who migrated to Australia. I think he is your last service man from the Great War.

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really?? surprised to hear this, it was really really big news back home then the last old hero passed..

This is really interesting..have you anything to back that up mate?

cheers

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Wikipedia is your friend. I remember reading it in a couple stories from Australian newspapers, because all of the ANZACs have now passed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...of_World_War_I