Festival of Remembrance
- 9 November 2008 23:258896Barry W I pleased you put a sense of reasoning to this .Like me you knew the local children might be at the event but it was best to keep quiet .I hope you like me was very very proud of our young pupils .Yes Vic it is an important day but we all have our memories .You went to your local church I went to mine and my son as I stated earlier posting chose to help me.Yes Bern a very de cent young man who has been there for me for years and years as achild and now a grown man .
- 9 November 2008 23:348898I was at the rememberance service today and it was both moving and pleasing to see how many people there were there, of all ages, to remember the sacrifices of our great service men and women. It was a good service, with Terry's commentary and music helping to keep it in tone, and it was also a time to recall why they died, and continue to die, fighting for our way of life. Because of their sacrifice we are able to live in a free society, with the rights to express our own opinions, question those in authority and continue our own struggles to improve our lives. It does not serve their memories well to say we should forgo those rights in their honour.Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour - 10 November 2008 07:578904Mandie - I dont think you were a particular target there as your comment was not unreasonable but others developed it with what looks like pointless and manufactured rage when thoughts on this thread should have been elsewhere.
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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10 November 2008 08:118905yes it was a nice surprise to see two young children from dover at the albert hall sunday evening,it was nice to see so many young people at the memorial service on sunday as well.but it would have been nice to have known or evan a hint that those two young kiddies were going to be there a couple of days before hand. - 12 November 2008 22:399108Remembrance day will never be the same again, 90years after the great war people came from all over the world to remember the fallen at Ypers on tusday 11/11/08.What a Moveing service not a dry eye anywere, And I had the great honour of laying a wreath on behalf of The George Cross For Dover Campaign.But the most moving part of the services was when they let the poppys go from the roof it started to rain and all the dye from the poppys ran,and it was as if the blood of all these brave soles were being washed past us down the road and away from Ypers back to Blity.If I live to be a 100 i will never witness any thing like that again.I hope you wont mind but few Photo's of the Day.
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- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
12 November 2008 22:439109alan you done us proud with those photos.
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
12 November 2008 22:449110ps to the above post i told you it was easy.
- 12 November 2008 22:519113Alan brilliant pictures,well don
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble! - 12 November 2008 22:599115Thank you Alan. Great photos, you have done us all proud.Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour - 12 November 2008 23:319118Alan beautiful pictures those I truly appreciate .Thank you so much for bringing them into my home .
- 13 November 2008 07:299121Yes indeed wonderful photos - well done.
This 90th. Anniversary has been the most poignant for many a year; I guess perhaps because we still have three brave guys from that war alive - long may they continue.
Some great commemmorative programs too - Waler Tull, Michael Pailin's story of the last people killed in the Great War - on the 11th. of November, just hours (and some killed just minutes) before the Armistice started at 11.00. Talk about the futility of war.
Roger - 13 November 2008 08:549123Alan well done with the lovely pictures and well done with managing to load them up, Ive added a note to draw attention to them on the frontpage now too.email: dover7@msn.com
- 13 November 2008 09:009124Thank you Alan. Breathtaking.
- 13 November 2008 10:389129Fantastic pictures Alan and a very poignant description of your time there, really appreciate seeing them here on the forum.
- 13 November 2008 11:309133Well done, Alan dearest
I am so very pleased you were able to be there, happy for you that it was such a wonderful experience for you, and your description of the poppies falling is poignant indeed. Good man!
And at home: Not Forgotten. Thank you to our good friend, Andy, who laid the Dover War Memorial Project wreath this year at our own home town memorial. I hear there were so many wreaths, the laying took almost as long as the service. Wonderful indeed.
Simon and I are still slowly coming back to earth again - the DWMP, spent the anniversary of the Armistice in London, with groups of schoolchildren, along with many other people, old friends and new. It was the most moving occasion, and the schoolchildren were absolute darlings. They had worked so very hard on learning about our Fallen, and were appreciative of and interested in everything. They made our days. There were a lot of tearful moments, but, too, with relatives of our casualties and in the company of our younger generations, times too of enormous pride, and gratitude, and moments of happiness and joy, and great laughter. Thorugh it all, we felt buoyed along by a tide of love.
Those who Fell died in the most horrendous of circimstances, their lives taken before their time. But I truly think, if they could see their legacy, they would have been proud. There'd have been tears in heaven this 90th Armistice.The Dover War Memorial Project
www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk - 13 November 2008 12:019134Thank you all for your wonderfull comments as moving as the service itself,And maggie and simon as the poppys fell not only was I thinking of all those brave lads but a thorght whent out to you and simon because i know you would being sheding a tear or two, Thank you both for all the hard work you do i shall have to stop now as tears in my eyes and carnt see the screen.(Silly Old Me)
