Title: Armistice and Remembrance
Post by: mgmark on November 11, 2017, 11:21:50 pm
Just a brief note on Armistice Day, leading into Remembrance Sunday tomorrow.
Personal reflections today on relatives (some of whom I never knew) and friends who served, who have died or who have been affected, in body or mind or both, by events over the years.
Reflections tomorrow on 1.7m British and Commonwealth people buried in war graves in 23,000 locations around the world. Many more of them with no grave. And many, many more similarly from all nations across the world.
Reflections that, although I will be remembering them all, for the first time in 40 years I won't be in uniform tomorrow. I've been fortunate - and I hope that one of mine, currently overseas, will be similarly fortunate.
All the best to you all,
Matk
Personal reflections today on relatives (some of whom I never knew) and friends who served, who have died or who have been affected, in body or mind or both, by events over the years.
Reflections tomorrow on 1.7m British and Commonwealth people buried in war graves in 23,000 locations around the world. Many more of them with no grave. And many, many more similarly from all nations across the world.
Reflections that, although I will be remembering them all, for the first time in 40 years I won't be in uniform tomorrow. I've been fortunate - and I hope that one of mine, currently overseas, will be similarly fortunate.
All the best to you all,
Matk
Title: Re: Armistice and Remembrance
Post by: Kev_mk3 on November 22, 2017, 12:11:43 pm
I spent the 11th hour of remembrance Sunday in the gas chamber at Auschwitz. Very sobering and strange feeling :'(
