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Eddie B 2:55 Tue Nov 7
The 2017 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.  https://stephaniebwilson.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/06f12vets-480543.jpg http://c8.alamy.com/comp/AEAX66/chelsea-pensioners-corps-of-war-veterans-cared-for-at-the-royal-hospital-AEAX66.jpg Mods, please. Thanks.
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eastend joker
11:02 Sun Nov 12
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Went to the service in Blackpool last year and Wickford this year ,really impressed with the numbers and amount of youngsters attending both events ,so important to remember those who gave all .
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Brussels Sprout
8:07 Sun Nov 12
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'When You Go Home,
Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Their Tomorrow,
We gave Our Today.
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7:41 Sun Nov 12
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MTC, that is a pretty dumb post even for this Board.
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MTC
7:38 Sun Nov 12
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Pretty sickening to see that cunt Corbyn laying a wreath.He’s probably celebrated when any of our service men and women have been killed or injured in various conflicts.Especially Northern Ireland.
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Northern Sold
7:20 Sun Nov 12
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5074463/Britain-honours-war-dead-Remembrance-Sunday.html
Some great photos the DM have done there... I have got a great Unc whose grave is at ramelah war cem' in Israel
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Northern Sold
6:34 Sun Nov 12
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Great minutes silence before our vets game this morning... including a laying of a reef by the oppo' (one of their players was in the RA who got killed in Afghanistan)... 6 of our lads was at the Cenotaph which is a good excuse why we lost!
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yngwies Cat
12:03 Sun Nov 12
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'They' by Siegfried Sassoon
The Bishop tells us: 'When the boys come back
'They will not be the same; for they'll have fought
'In a just cause: they lead the last attack
'On Anti-Christ; their comrades' blood has bought
'New right to breed an honourable race,
'They have challenged Death and dared him face to face.'
'We're none of us the same!' the boys reply.
'For George lost both his legs; and Bill's stone blind;
'Poor Jim's shot through the lungs and like to die;
'And Bert's gone syphilitic: you'll not find
'A chap who's served that hasn't found some change.
' And the Bishop said: 'The ways of God are strange!'
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kenyahammer
10:09 Sun Nov 12
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https://d3jkudlc7u70kh.cloudfront.net/interesting-world-war-i-death-fact.jpg
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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Coffee
8:26 Sun Nov 12
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In previous years, this thread was always pinned. And the links made into photos.
Mods, dogs.
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Grumpster
12:47 Sat Nov 11
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RIP lads and lasses and I'll continue to raise a glass and buy a drink every day to the people still serving.
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Babelman
10:33 Sat Nov 11
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wanstead_hammer 8:29 Fri Nov 10
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wanstead_hammer
8:29 Fri Nov 10
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We're going to hang out the washing on the Siegfried line.
Respect to every one of 'em.
Never forgotten.
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Eddie B
1:51 Fri Nov 10
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Nice one mods.
You had one job etc
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Northern Sold
4:58 Tue Nov 7
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Outside the barracks, by the corner light
I'll always stand and wait for you at night
We will create a world for two
I'll wait for you the whole night through
For you, Lili Marlene
For you, Lili Marlene
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1964
4:53 Tue Nov 7
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BBC wankers
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
4:32 Tue Nov 7
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People on telly wearing poppies before 4th November is insincere virtue signalling. Discuss.
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cornish
4:29 Tue Nov 7
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Very brave men.
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Northern Sold
4:16 Tue Nov 7
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It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary,
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye, Piccadilly,
Farewell, Leicester Square!
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.
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collyrob
4:09 Tue Nov 7
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Fascists
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J.Riddle
3:50 Tue Nov 7
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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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