Remembrance Day, Veterans Day & War Memorials
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"Ghosts of all my lovely sins
Who attend too well my pillow.."
-Dorothy Parker, Rainy Night.
I'm not sure how lovely my sins have been, but some were kind of fun.
And in the end "All sweet sins shall be forgot"
Another reverse lens photo.
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Memorial Day was set aside to honor all those veterans who lost their lives in the Country's wars.
This particular soldier died during the American Civil War which ended in 1865, and still today, the grave gets marked with a flag! ...true honor and remembrance!
Remembering is SO important for all those that gave their lives for the benefit of us. Personally remembering my grandfather who survived World War One and my Great Uncle who sadly did not as he was killed at The Somme. We WILL Remember Them
"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."
Laurence Binyon "For the Fallen" extract
Every photo we take is a fragment of our life which we preserve for future remembrances...
This is the harbour of Carloforte, Isola di San Pietro, south-west Sardinia.
The remembrance poppy is an artificial flower that has been used since 1921 to commemorate military personnel who have died in war, and represents a common or field poppy, Papaver rhoeas. Inspired by the World War I poem "In Flanders Fields", and promoted by Moina Michael, they were first adopted by the American Legion to commemorate American soldiers killed in that war. They were then adopted by military veterans' groups in parts of the British Empire.
Today, they are mostly used in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to commemorate their servicemen and women killed in all conflicts. There, small artificial poppies are often worn on clothing leading up to Remembrance Day/Armistice Day. Poppy wreaths are often laid at war memorials. In Australia and New Zealand, they are also worn on Anzac Day.
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
As Remembrance Sunday is being celebrated in the UK on 14 November I thought I would post this picture of a poppy field in the county where I live - Northamptonshire.
My grandfather survived the first three years of the Great War but was then killed in France in 1917. He has no known grave. Total British Army losses were nearly 900,000.
Since then there has been World War Two and other wars when numerous soldiers, sailors and airmen have lost their lives in the service of their country. We owe a vast debt to them all.
I can scarcely believe that it has been four years since we went to view the astonishing poppy memorial that was installed at the Tower of London. Despite (or perhaps because of?) the number of people there it was perhaps the most moving tribute I have ever seen to those poor people that laid down their lives in the most appalling circumstances to fight for freedom. It is heartening that as memories fade and the combatants are now only present in history books, the commemoration of those events 100 years ago and the subsequent war that followed seem to resonate even more strongly now than they ever have done
It's getting cold now...
I'll miss summer mostly because of this flower.
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It seems that nobody remembered this British soldier killed in the First World War who was buried in the cemetery in my old town.
The best anti-war music video ever - One
A poppy to remind us that today is Remembrance day, during these trying times we honour those who fought for our democracy, human rights and equality for all.
I would like to believe that we can live up to the fact that the sacrifice of those who died for us was not in vain.
So get vaccinated people !!!
A shot seen and taken a while back and saved for Remembrance Sunday . The small silhouette Tommy has stood on the roof of a house garage nearby so when I saw it with the background of the autumn leaves bathed in sunlight I could see this would make a suitable tribute for Remembrance Sunday .
So on this day take time to remember anyone injured or lost in the past !!
This was taken at a wartime re-enactment at a local old steam railway. The heavens opened and people ran for cover. I ended up in the platform waiting room, this chap dressed in a Home Guard uniform was stood in the doorway just gazing out into the rain.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day
Armistice Day was declared on 11 November 1918 and Big Ben sounded on the hour at 11am – the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. This weekend's two-minute silence will commence at precisely that time, marking exactly 100 years to the second the First World War came to an end.
"May every Sunrise hold more Promise and every Sunset hold more Peace" ~ Anon.
As always, we gather in London City at 11am GMT (3am SLT) to mark the two minute silence for Remembrance Sunday.
Memorial Day Remembrance while walking Saturday I saw this small garden tribute,
I thought this might br appropriate for Memorial Day, found in the Carolina's.
Smile on Saturday
Remembrance Day
Matilija Poppies are a real showstopper in late spring. With half a dozen beds planted at UCR Botanical Gardens, the tree poppies grow six to ten feet tall with large white blooms and dark green foliage. Majestic and beautiful, I look forward to these California gems return each spring.
A macro closeup of a beautiful Remembrance Poppy that is actually a badge (or pin) to be worn on Remembrance Sunday in memory of those fallen.
Godspeed Dad - July 22, 2019
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~ If I had a single flower for every time I think about you,
I could walk forever in my garden. ~
Ghandi
Happy Birthday, Mom :)
~ 1998 ~
~ I'm there...xxoo, me.
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This is the Remembrance Sunday that I photographed in Hove during the second lockdown. All images for this series are uploaded on a very low resolution.
Grand Avenue, Hove
8th December, 2020
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Taken on Remembrance Sunday last year, it is a poignant image to post for today as we remember. Lest we forget.
This is the Remembrance Sunday that I photographed in Hove during the second lockdown. All images for this series are uploaded on a very low resolution.
Grand Avenue, Hove
8th December, 2020
With this awful weather we are currently enduring, I was going back over some shots I took at Healey Dell and on the end of that file I found this shot, which I took on my way back home. I hadn't processed it so I thought it was worth a post as I haven't been out this last week with the camera.
This was a Remembrance display on the cobbled bridge over the River Irwell at Ringley, near Bolton. I had seen it on the TV News around that time and as I was passing I took a quick shot. I used to live not far away when I was a young lad and it was strange returning after all these years!
Remembrance Day (sometimes known informally as Poppy Day) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth of Nations member states since the end of the First World War to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty. Following a tradition inaugurated by King George V in 1919, the day is also marked by war remembrances in many non-Commonwealth countries. Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November in most countries to recall the end of hostilities of World War I on that date in 1918. Hostilities formally ended "at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month", in accordance with the armistice signed by representatives of Germany and the Entente between 5:12 and 5:20 that morning. ("At the 11th hour" refers to the passing of the 11th hour, or 11:00 am.)
For my tribute I used a photo of a section of the Battle of Britain Monument on the Victoria Embankment, London and overlaid the poppies which have become a symbol of remembrance. This year is also the centenary of Armistice Day.