Post A Poppy

[Ian McKay]

 

 

Good luck and hope you get home safe and well we will not forget them that have lost their lives

[sapper756]

I thought it would be a nice gesture, if PB members showed their respect and thanks to our fallen heroes, by posting a poppy and if they wish, make a short commenthttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif

 

let me begin;

 

 

 

 

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to the men and woman who have sacrificed their lives to enable the rest of us to live in peace, THANK YOU

 

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[sapper756]

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[knoxjn]

we can never thank them enough god bless you every one

[frank-123]

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[Guest TAMMY_1]

But for them we might not have the freedom we so often take for granted,god bless them all.

[andy Burgess]

I thought it would be a nice gesture, if PB members showed their respect and thanks to our fallen heroes, by posting a poppy and if they wish, make a short commenthttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif

 

let me begin;

 

 

 

 

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to the men and woman who have sacrificed their lives to enable the rest of us to live in peace, THANK YOU

[HOMER49]

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

[HOMER49]

Why do we wear a poppy ?

In 1918 Moira Michael an American

wrote a poem and promised to wear

a poppy each year to commemorate the fallen

This is the poem

 

WE SHALL KEEP THE FAITH

Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,

Sleep sweet - to rise anew!

We caught the torch you threw

And holding high, we keep the Faith

With All who died.

 

We cherish, too, the poppy red

That grows on fields where valor led;

It seems to signal to the skies

That blood of heroes never dies,

But lends a luster to the red

Of the flower that blooms above the dead

In Flanders Fields.

 

And now the Torch and Poppy Red

We wear in honor of our dead.

Fear not that ye have died for naught;

We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought

In Flanders Fields.

[sapper756]

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[sapper756]

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As manager of my workplace I will be holding a 2 minutes silence at 11am to show our gratitude to those who have given their lives, so we can live in peace.

 

What about you?

 

 

[HOMER49]

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

 

The above was penned by Major John McCrae

in 1915

A very moving poem, part of the last

verse is talking directly to you

To you from failing hands we throw the torch

be yours to hold it high

If you break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep

[glenrandal]

so many gave so much

 

we will remember them

[sapper756]

A Soldier is some where in the world tonight is missing their Family while you are safe at home. In the minute it takes you to read this, Military members all over the world are not only saving lifes, but they also sacrificing their own life for your Freedom! show that you appreciate our TROOPS, and observe the 2 minutes silence today, at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month in 2011

GOD BLESS THEM ALL

[OLDYELLOW]

This day, November 11th has come to be known as Veteran's Day, but it's reason for existence was to commemorate the end of World War 1 - the "War To End All Wars" when an armistice was signed on November 11th 1918 and the bloodiest, most inhuman (and pointless) war up to that point was finally over.

On that occasion, former First Lord Of The Admiralty the Right Honorable Winston Churchill recorded a short address to acknowledge the war just ended.

 

"We have won the great war, let us win the great peace."

 

We will never forget those brave men and boys that have fallen in all wars , and gave there lives so ours would be better .

[OLDYELLOW]

On a cold November Sunday morn, an old man sits a while

Looking though old photographs, he can’t help but smile

They’re all there, all the boys, with hair cut short and neat

Uniforms of khaki, strong black boots upon their feet.

They met as strangers but soon became like brothers to the end

Smiling at the camera, there could be no truer friends.

They all took the Queen’s shilling, went off to fight the hun,

Soon learnt the pain of loss once the fighting had begun.

So many never made it home, lost on foreign shores

Many more were injured and would be the same no more.

The old man’s eyes mist with tears as he remembers every face

Each of his fallen brothers and the killing which took place

He proudly dons his beret, his blazer and his tie

For today he will remember the ones who fell and died.

On his chest there is a poppy, a blaze of scarlet on the blue

He steps out into the cold, he has a duty he must do

Once at the cenotaph he stands amongst the ranks

Of those who marched to war and those who manned the tanks,

He bows his head in reverence, as the last post begins to play

And he wonders what will happen at the ending of his days

Will anyone remember? Will anybody care?

About the lads so far from home whose life was ended there?

I wish that I could tell him, that he should fear not

For this soldier and his brothers will NEVER be forgot

We owe a debt of gratitude that we can never pay

And this country WILL remember them, on each Remembrance day.