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Let us not forget all the Fallen Soldiers in both World Wars I and II on both sides, but also remember all of the many Fallen in All the Wars that are going on now and were in the past. Soldiers die fighting because they must do their duty to their country, but Families suffer on every side when they are killed.
The drops on this poppy are like tears that surely signify the sadness felt by us all.
I was thinking about Remembrance Sunday after seeing an old piece of mine created on that theme in my FB memories. I was going to update that piece but then started a new one and ended up with this!
The poppy, obviously, with script representing all the letters home from the soldiers to their loved ones. There's actually a field of poppies photo blended into the background, but made it deliberately abstracty so it could also be reminiscent of fire burning around the buildings suggested in the b/g. It's not at all what I intended but it's where I ended up lol :)
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C'est une tradition centenaire à laquelle les Britanniques sont profondément attachés. Ce coquelicot, appelé aussi « poppy » par les Anglais, symbolise la guerre des tranchées et les centaines de milliers de soldats qui ont laissé leur vie au combat.
A small shrine in a beautiful location overlooking the volcanic caldera in Santorini.
In remembrance of my work colleague Chris Burscough who sadly passed away on the 17th November. He was a gentle man as well as a gentleman who brightened the lives of all who met him. He will be sorely missed by all of us at NJSR Architects.
A Solitary Remembrance
For someone born in 1858 living nearly 98 eight years was a very long life indeed. This solitary stone in this small, out of the way cemetery, forgotten by many and unknown by most is a simple remembrance yet just as stately as the largest mausoleum.
Charles C. Ritter's life ended just 4 years after mine began. What will be my memorial? I'm fairly certain it won't be a mighty public edifice nor a stately classical mausoleum. Without children I leave no one behind to carry my DNA into the future or tend a simple grave like this. If my plans to be cremated are carried out there will be no physical place to mark my existence. Though I have written words and created images, I doubt either are remarkable enough to stand the test of time. So, what will be left behind in my remembrance when I shuffle off this mortal coil? I hope that those whose lives I have touched will occasionally remember me with fondness. That will be enough.
Remembrance day at Niagara-on-the-lake Canada
The Clock Tower Cenotaph was unveiled in 1922 as a monument to the town's 10 fallen soldiers in World War I.
Brampton Cumbria
Brampton Remembrance Parade from 2012 to 2024 here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/collections/721576375...
It is Remembrance Day in Canada. A time to remember the sacrifice of Canada's soldiers of, primarily, the last century. I've included a link that I have probably included before, but, here it is. The 3 PPCLI is my nephew's unit. He is a major, and did one tour in Afghanistan when he was a lieutenant. (Pronounced "leff-tenant in Canada) Every time I watch this video, I tear up. I showed it in French class today, after our Remembrance Day service.
A black and white poppy edit for Remembrance Sunday 2018.
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Sacaton West Cemetery, Gila River Tribal Community. This remembrance was hanging on one of the boundary fences.
Remembrance Day in Calgary this year, I went to Memorial Park at the downtown cenotaph... Possibly the coldest service I remember, about -17 Celcius plus wind chill... Still a very large crowd though!
The Unknown Soldier
Poppies of Remembrance on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Canada. Here lies one of Canada's fallen from the Western Front of World War I.
They were my Poppies. Lest we forget.
Photo by: Michael P. Kopack
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"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."
- from "For the Fallen" a poem by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), published in The Times newspaper on 21 September 1914.
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I've been to the Tomb of the American Unknown Soldier at Arlington many times and seen the moving, somber ceremonies. I think I prefer the Canadian Tomb though. He lies at the foot of the National War Memorial, accessible to everyone. The day I took this picture, I was the only one there (it was a breezy 23°F) so I sat down next to his grave and talked to him and thought about his sacrifice and that of so many others. To me, he's *one of us*, not someone to be protected away behind guards, like an exhibit in a museum.
For WW1 servicemen and women at the Tower of London. These poppies are all hand made in clay and was the idea of artist Paul Cummins. There are or will be 888,246 poppies placed here, one for every death among allied forces. The last poppy will be placed on 11th November so there is time to see this amazing display.
(It's a shame about the bit of paper or plastic stuck in one of them)
I think I'll be posting a few more shots.
I don't know if the cadets will be holding their all-night vigil again this year, but if they do, I will miss it. This is from last year, at the Cenotaph in the dark and cold..
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Posed spontaneous portrait from Glasgow, Scotland. After capturing a candid I asked for a portrait from this guy in his superb World War I medic uniform. I loved the juxtaposition with the graffiti too - an 'expression' of freedom for which so many fought and died to protect.
My dad taught me the importance of remembrance for the sacrifices of war by taking me to the Remembrance Sunday ceremony every year as a child. Today I will be remembering those that fought for freedom and democracy together with remembering my dad and his reverence and respect for that remembrance.
Lest we forget.
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Practicing positive remembrance- missing the things I've left behind but not with too much sorrow. Looking hopefully for the new people/places/things that are becoming part of my life.
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At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month....we will remember them. I think it disgusting that FIFA has banned the England and Scotland football teams from wearing poppies, the symbol of Remembrance, when they play their first international game against each other since 1999 at Wembley on Friday 11th November. In remembrance of all those who made the ultimate sacrifice, FIFA should remember that amongst those who died were thousands of football fans, thousands who enjoyed playing football and even many professional players. Britain is sick of being told what it can and can't do by ignorant foreigners who don't even recognise the contribution that Commonwealth soldiers made in giving them freedom from fascism. Only for FIFA to operate their own fascism. And they have the cheek to suggest the Remembrance poppy is a political symbol. F--K FIFA Fascists.
I popped out of work at lunch time to grab a shot of the carved soldier memorial outside the Victory hall in Mobberley village, Cheshire. Someone had hoisted the flag with the words, "Lest we forget"
The poppy--long a symbol of sleep, peace, and death--has also, since World War I, been a symbol of remembrance of soldiers lost in wars.
Papua New Guinea's Owen Stanley Ranges, and the Kokoda Track that crosses them, were the focus of intense fighting between July and November 1942, during WWII. November 2022 marks the 80th anniversary of that fierce campaign in unforgiving jungle clad terrain. The image above, copied from one of my old transparencies, shows part of the Goldie River valley, looking deep into the Owen Stanleys as it appeared to me a bit over 40 years ago. The inset is a clip of 303 bullets I found on the trail. Over 2600 Australian and Japanese troops were killed, many thousands more were casualties of battle or disease. Australian war dead are buried at Bomana War Cemetery near Port Moresby.
remember ... and learn. No more war. Never!! Peace!!
Safe this planet - safe our lifes and the life of the following generations!
seen in Folkestone, England
“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.”
For today, I took a photo of 2 French postcards which my grandad sent home to his young family during World War I. Despite injuries, he was one of the lucky ones who survived the war & eventually returned home - but many of his friends didn’t.
“We will remember them”
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.
Our village war memorial on Remembrance Sunday, wreaths were placed and poppy crosses signed by the local school children in Honour and remembrance of our village fallen in both world wars, St. Mary's church, Dymock Village, Gloucestershire.
Poppies on the Bathgate Pyramids by the side of the M8 motorway, Scotland.
To those idiot students who hide their heads in hoods and faces behind masks and burn Police cars and damage property in protest about a rise in student fees, please realise that things in this world have a cost. As immature beings you may have got used to anyone and everyone else, whether it be your parents or the State paying for your existence. You may think it right that you waste your time and the expense of educating you at University, gaining a degree that you don't use. You may think it your right to protest and complain that you should be held to account for the expense of your education. After all you have the right to do anything you like: it's a free country, isn't it?
But please use your selfish little brains to appreciate that there is a cost for all these things.
The poppies you see people wearing are not a celebration of war. They are a symbol of remembrance for the hundreds of thousands of men who fought to defend the freedom of our land. They were men from a time when people respected their nation, respected it's authorities, the Laws and the Police. They didn't protest when sent to defend their country, even at a terrible cost. For they paid to give today's students the freedom they enjoy with their lives.
It's important we remember that sacrifice and point out to today's youth how fortunate they are.
On the morning of 13 November, a first bunch of flowers on the railing of a park on the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir opposite Bataclan, site of the biggest of the coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris ten years earlier.
It is Remembrance Day in Canada. A time to remember the sacrifice of Canada's soldiers of, primarily, the last century. I've included a link that I have probably included before, but, here it is. The 3 PPCLI is my nephew's unit. He is a major, and did one tour in Afghanistan when he was a lieutenant. (Pronounced "leff-tenant in Canada) Every time I watch this video, I tear up. I showed it in French class today, after our Remembrance Day service. The helmet is a Canadian WWII model, made in London, Ontario, and is not a replica.