11/11/11

[securespark]

We're having 2 minutes silence at 11 o clock.
How many others employers will ask employees to show their respects tomorrow ??

Mine did.

And, as an aside, most big employers do the same.

 

[securespark]

Well I had a cold morning at a war memorial with my son being the flag bearer this year for his AFC unit. A good turn out as it happened.

One thing, could someone please please show the Police cadets and actually the officers on parade how to polish their boots.
And another thing, why was it only the Police that were being told "Left. Left, Left right left"?

Dont they know how to march?????

I did too. We walked from near HQ to the memorial.

I went as a Scout leader:

and my eldest Will went too.

I found it incredibly moving as we sang hymns gathered round the war memorial.

One old soldier asked us to remember his old comrades, crying as he did. That made a few eyes moist, I can tell you, including mine.

 

[hotrod]

Nice that you're giving something back to the community secures, it must give you a great sense of satisfaction.

Whenever remembrance day comes around it always takes me back to being at school reading Wilfred Owen:-

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori

 

[angel123]

Hi..I got to see most of the lucky babies who got a chance to be born 11-11-11..And i also consider that all of us are lucky enough to enjoy that day..Because it happens once in 100 years it seems..