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The National Memorial Arboretum is a British site of national remembrance at Alrewas, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. Its objective is to honour the fallen, recognise service and sacrifice, and foster pride in the British Armed Forces and civilian community.
Wikipedia.
This was taken last year, I have been here a few times.
It is a wonderful Memorial Arboretum.
Staffordshire., England.
This is my tiny Christmas Cactus. I've had it for several years... it never gets any bigger. Two years ago half of it died...and it only ever gets two or three blooms.
It is quite curious as it blooms at American Thanksgiving... and, sometimes again at Christmas and once again around Easter time...
This year...it bloomed today.
Today is the fifth anniversary of the Manchester Arena bombing where 22 innocent victims lost their lives and more than 1,000 injured at the hands of a suicide bomber while attending an Ariana Grande concert. I would like to pay my tribute to all their family and friends with some images I took after hundreds of people gathered for a one minute silence in St. Ann's Square; you could hear a pin drop it was so quiet. A lady started to sing ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ by Oasis; everyone started singing; a moment I will never forget. Hundreds of tributes lay on the ground in St. Ann’s Square for weeks after that terrible incident which took place on May 22nd 2017.
This massive billboard on the corner of Newton Street and Piccadilly would have been a fitting place to show how Manchester will never forget the 22 Angels that tragically lost their lives. This is how it could have looked. RIP.
The official memorial piece, ‘The Glade Of Light’, is in the memorial garden next to the Cathedral; opened to the public in January 2022 and officially opened on 4th May 2022 by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Poppies at The Tower of London, taken several years ago but I think worth another post given the importance of the day.
Lest we forget - and some are forgetting very fast indeed.
Adegem Canadian War Cemetery.
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Each year we place four crosses.
One for Margaret's Granddad Nudds at Helhoughton near Fakenham Norfolk.
One each for my three Gt.Uncles
The Fisher brothers at West Runton, Norfolk.
Wlliam England at Overstrand, Norfolk.
We thank our service members, past and present, for all they have done to keep us and people around the world safe. They represent the very best of what it means to be Canadian. Remember war but pray for peace.
We pay tribute and remember those who fought for Canada on this 11th day of the 11th month at the 11th hour.
ANZSAC DAY. Perth, Western Australia
Government House. Perth, WA.
The much loved annual Anzac Day poppy display was opened to the public on Monday 9 April.
Volunteers from RSL Western Australia have planted over 40,000 hand crafted, crocheted poppies commemorating lives lost during World War I.
Among the red poppies, which represent fallen soldiers, are purple crocheted poppies which represent animals. Sprigs of rosemary, the symbol of Anzac Day, have also been planted on the lawns.
... part of a painting by the Belgian artist Ronny Van Twembeke.
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.
(Moina Michael)
The reason poppies are used to remember those who have given their lives in battle is because they are the flowers which grew on the battlefields after World War One ended.
This is described in the famous World War One poem "In Flanders Fields", written by John McCrae, a Canadian army doctor.
At the time, Major John McCrae was working in a field dressing station on the road between Ypres and Boezinge, in Flanders (Belgium)
Ever since then, they have come to be a symbol of remembering not just those who gave their lives in World War One, but all those who have died on behalf of their country.
Poem John McCrae, handwritten: here
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Remembrance Sunday is gone, but the insignia of remembering the war dead are still up. When I came to Britain in 1990, male soldiers only were remembered (and, usually, Brits only, not the millions of soldiers Africa and India had provided). Things have changed since then, and now, there are also silhouettes of female soldiers. For somebody like me, coming from "Europe", it is strange that in the UK the memory is clearly privileging the military. Modern war, however, is equally destructive in the civilian world. Leica M Mono, Voigtlander CS 2.2/50 wide-open.
Remembrance Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War to honour armed forces members 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.
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Le jour du Souvenir est une journée commémorative observée dans les États membres du Commonwealth depuis la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale pour honorer les membres des forces armées décédés dans l'exercice de leurs fonctions. Suivant une tradition inaugurée par le roi George V en 1919, la journée est également marquée par des souvenirs de guerre dans de nombreux pays non membres du Commonwealth.
Poppy taken at Wightwick Manor in the summer and processed for Sliders Sunday and Remembrance Day 2024.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
from the famous poem by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
11 November is Remembrance Day in the UK when we remember those members of our armed forces who have died in the line of duty. We have services and two minutes silence on the Sunday nearest to the 11 November as well.
The red remembrance poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem "In Flanders Fields". These poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their brilliant red colour an appropriate symbol for the blood spilled in the war. (Wikipedia)
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Virtual poppy drop on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. The 117,000 poppies that fall from the top of Centre Block represent a Canadian life lost in armed conflict since World War I.
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Day 215, my favorite number, and the first upload of 2013, woooo!
This beach is the most beautiful place, I'm so glad we found it!
(While shooting this, the sand started falling away and I almost went backwards right over that hill :P)
Hope you guys had a great day!
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