Remembrance day 2017 - will you bother

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Reports in the media suggest less and less people are wearing a poppy and people, especially the young, are less and less interested in Remembrance Day.

Me, I’ll be at my local parade, suited and booted, to say thanks and to remember all those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Is anyone else attending a local parade?

Lest We Forget
 
Well, I've had the bloke on the radio today telling me that Poppies are racist.... Was it the Independent also with a similar story. There was also the "white poppy wombat" on TV earlier in the week extolling the virtues of being a pacifist.

It's a shame that "hashtags" didn't exist in 1940... by gum, they would have stopped Hitler in his tracks eh?

Poppy in place. Say thanks for those who defended their rights to be prats!

What will Corbyn do at the Cenotaph on Sunday.... an ISIS Finger Point?
 
pauldj42 said:
Reports in the media suggest less and less people are wearing a poppy and people, especially the young, are less and less interested in Remembrance Day.

Me, I’ll be at my local parade, suited and booted, to say thanks and to remember all those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Is anyone else attending a local parade?

Lest We Forget
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Snap mate, I will be at my local parade after nights.
 
IanM said:
Well, I've had the bloke on the radio today telling me that Poppies are racist.... Was it the Independent also with a similar story. There was also the "white poppy wombat" on TV earlier in the week extolling the virtues of being a pacifist.

It's a shame that "hashtags" didn't exist in 1940... by gum, they would have stopped Hitler in his tracks eh?

Poppy in place. Say thanks for those who defended their rights to be prats!

What will Corbyn do at the Cenotaph on Sunday.... an ISIS Finger Point?
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Corbyn will do what he did last year and pay his respects correctly.
 
Always! And we will watch the Remembrance prog on the beeb, and when it gets to the minutes silence on the prog we will both be stood up.
 
pauldj42 said:
Reports in the media suggest less and less people are wearing a poppy and people, especially the young, are less and less interested in Remembrance Day.

Me, I’ll be at my local parade, suited and booted, to say thanks and to remember all those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Is anyone else attending a local parade?

Lest We Forget
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Same here. :thup:
 
My 14yr old son is in the Sea Cadets and will be one of the standard bearers on Sunday. He also gets involved with selling poppies in the weeks leading up to RD.
I have always attended the event and it always brings a lump to my throat and a tear to my eye, especially as the number of surviving veterans decreases each year.

We will remember them...always.
 
i am playing golf but asked for a tee time about 11.05 so i can pay my respects. Poppy badge will be on my golf bag
 
I've not got a poppy this year, but whenever I've got a load of silver and copper in the pocket. It goes in a poppy sellers pot.

I've never been one for the parades, but will show my respects on the day!
 
Had 2 great uncles killed in WW1, my grandfather won the military medal at Ypres also, on Sunday however I will not be wearing a poppy or going to any event. If 11 comes around and I happen to notice it I'll be silent, if not so be it. Have done flag bearing via School and Scouts in the past. Not a church goer. We can remember events and people in our own way, you don't have to conform to what others deem appropriate or wear a plastic flower to remember. Follow your own nose.
Not surprised young people are less interested, it's a natural process and in many ways a good thing to get past hang ups about foreign enemies of the past.
That's an honest assessment.
 
maxfli65 said:
Had 2 great uncles killed in WW1, my grandfather won the military medal at Ypres also, on Sunday however I will not be wearing a poppy or going to any event. If 11 comes around and I happen to notice it I'll be silent, if not so be it. Have done flag bearing via School and Scouts in the past. Not a church goer. We can remember events and people in our own way, you don't have to conform to what others deem appropriate or wear a plastic flower to remember. Follow your own nose.
Not surprised young people are less interested, it's a natural process and in many ways a good thing to get past hang ups about foreign enemies of the past.
That's an honest assessment.
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I’d like to think we can remember all those who have died which ever side they fought, agree it doesn’t need people feeling they have to conform, I’d like to think we could keep politics out of the poppy, (most likely pie in the sky) my concern with the younger generation is that they should at least be aware of the past, if we don’t learn from it, we could end up repeating those mistakes.
 
One of the difficulties is that this generation will be the first where their grandparents did not fight in the war. My grandad did but my kids grandad did not, he did national service after it was over. They don't have that that same connection, hear the same stories that we did. My FiL talking about having an easy time in Nottingham is not the same as dodging bombs in France or Belgium

The recent conflicts, Afghanistan and Iraq, have also both been political and controversial. Not the fault of the forces and as younger people get more mature they will realise the role that they play.

We have to talk and educate the new generation, not just bark at them for not following our traditions.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
One of the difficulties is that this generation will be the first where their grandparents did not fight in the war. My grandad did but my kids grandad did not, he did national service after it was over. They don't have that that same connection, hear the same stories that we did. My FiL talking about having an easy time in Nottingham is not the same as dodging bombs in France or Belgium

The recent conflicts, Afghanistan and Iraq, have also both been political and controversial. Not the fault of the forces and as younger people get more mature they will realise the role that they play.

We have to talk and educate the new generation, not just bark at them for not following our traditions.
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Good post, some excellent points :thup:
 
Sadly as the final survivors pass away and there is no-one to tell the stories it becomes even harder to keep awareness up, especially on the younger generations. How do you stop it becoming nothing but a chapter in the history books like Waterloo, Trafalgar etc. Of course we should still pay our respects and the Battleback guys at H4H are a stark reminder of the price still being paid by our armed forces and they are the lucky ones that still came back alive
 
Our club has a ceremonial flag on the 18th green with the "we will remember them" poem. There will be a two minute silence at 11am around the course. I will observe and silently thank all those who gave their lives so we may enjoy theirs.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
One of the difficulties is that this generation will be the first where their grandparents did not fight in the war. My grandad did but my kids grandad did not, he did national service after it was over. They don't have that that same connection, hear the same stories that we did. My FiL talking about having an easy time in Nottingham is not the same as dodging bombs in France or Belgium

The recent conflicts, Afghanistan and Iraq, have also both been political and controversial. Not the fault of the forces and as younger people get more mature they will realise the role that they play.

We have to talk and educate the new generation, not just bark at them for not following our traditions.
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Well said Neil. Those that gave so much also give us the ability to choose whether or not we recognise their sacrifices. As for discriminating between who fought in what conflict... those serving don't get the choice. I see no difference between someone injured in Iraq or on exercise in the Brecon Beacons.
 
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