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....turned out the lights and burning a single candle?
 
Do that most nights - cottage wiring is due for a renewal :-D

On a serious note, yes, scented but all the same - it's sickening that it took so long for the government to really get behind memorials and try and help a nation remember those that have fallen. I still don't believe they are doing enough for those that have passed after the other wars I.e. Iraq, Afghan.

War should never be used in vain to gain more P.R points like our current gov is doing :-(
 
Light out but no candle.
 
Its tough typing by a single candle, ( I know the hardships of the modern age Eh? )

But I'm managing :)

Edit actually looking down the street seems there are quite a few more also :)
 
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Cobra said:
Its tough typing by a single candle, ( I know the hardships of the modern age Eh? )

But I'm managing :)
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Good boy.
 
viv1969 said:
You'll do fella (y)
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I did WWI for History and English for my O' grades at school. It was drummed into me the horror of that war, the bravery of the soldiers involved and the futile waste of life. I believe time has proved that right but I have the utmost respect for people who have and who still do lay down their lives for our country. Pity the politicians only feel this way when it suits them.

Lest we forget? I never will.
 
BRASH said:
I did WWI for History and English for my O' grades at school. It was drummed into me the horror of that war, the bravery of the soldiers involved and the futile waste of life. I believe time has proved that right but I have the utmost respect for people who have and who still do lay down their lives for our country. Pity the politicians only feel this way when it suits them.

Lest we forget? I never will.
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Good boy (y)
 
WW1 was such a horrific war, such a waste of life for something that amounted to no more than colonial sabre rattling.

For the dead of both sides, you died with honour, but for no purpose.

A dreadful thing to say about so many who gave the ultimate sacrifice. I bear no ill will nor wish to dishonour any of those brave men who died at that time.

But I find it hard to see any credence or purpose to the first world war.
 
It's the very least I can do, we all owe them so much.

Anyway don't need lights for the iPad :).
 
Yes lights out here too
 
Sorry, no. But fair respect to those who did.

I don't need an occasion such as this to remember the millions who were sacrificed in the insanity, including my granddad who, although he survived, was deeply mentally scarred by the experience, or my nephew, who served in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan and lost his wingman to "friendly" fire.

I remember them all, often. Those of the past and those of the present. I don't need telling when to do it or reminding that I should.
 
Us too
agree with fracster and Brash about the first world war a real shame and a waste of so many lives
but have utter respect for the soldiers who fought believing that they were doing the right thing
 
Strangely I always sit by candlelight on summer evenings, there is enough natural light to see by
 
A terrible war and I've a huge respect for our soldiers. Sadly I believe it and the Second World War were necessary to stop the military advances of Germany at the time. Because of our soldiers we have the freedoms and country we have today. I believe they paid the ultimate price to give us freedom today.
 
Yep, we did candle and lights out.
Everytime I see something about WW1 I'm just blown away by the number of people who died, to the point where I actually find it almost incomprehensible that millions and millions died - I just can't picture what that must have looked like to the towns and villages whose populations just disintegrated within a few years :(
 
simon ess said:
Sorry, no. But fair respect to those who did.

I don't need an occasion such as this to remember the millions who were sacrificed in the insanity, including my granddad who, although he survived, was deeply mentally scarred by the experience, or my nephew, who served in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan and lost his wingman to "friendly" fire.

I remember them all, often. Those of the past and those of the present. I don't need telling when to do it or reminding that I should.
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Fair play to you, but many of us weren't so directly affected.
And we do need to be reminded on occasions.

Its good that there are anniversary dates, to make as stop and think, if only for a few minutes,
otherwise the "memories" of the horrific events get lost in our busy little daily lives.
 
posiview said:
For me, you need to add 'do something' to the end of that. We are forgetting the First and Second World Wars, as many of us have forgotten other wars.

Cheers.
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Nothing can be done so far as those wars are concerned. As far as I'm aware there are no people living who served in the great war....they would have to be phenomenally old. Even those who served in WW2 are getting thin on the ground.

But I think I know what you mean. Learning lessons.
I wish we had. But I fear we have not.
 
I have to say no, I didn't turn out the lights etc. It in no way indicates a lack of respect on my part, far from it. I have nothing but respect and admiration for those who gave their lives (and continue to give their lives) fighting for our freedoms.
 
I did the wife wasn't happy when I peed on the bathroom scales though:sorry:
 
For some years I researched British Army history and it took me to the war graves of France Belgium Holland and Germany for the First and Second World Wars.

It is a humbling and sobering experience. They are tended locally under the auspices of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and are haunting in their beauty and care but represent a loss of generations of young men.

In the case of those men who fell in the First World War, there were young girls/Womrm who were advised after the war that it was likely they may never find a husband. Another hidden tragedy.

I would say go and visit the cemeteries and while there visit the German cemeteries too. Their flower of youth died too.

War is never glorious but the glory is in those who went and fought and, in all too many cases, never returned.

If the opportunity to go appears the don't just drive by.

For me a horrific statement and beauty. For all of us - the reason we live in freedom.

Steve
 
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