“When you go home, tell them of us and say: ‘For your tomorrow, we gave our today.’”
Autumn pulled out all the stops for Remembrance Sunday:
We always give four pages of the paper over to Remembrance Sunday services and I’m glad.
It was lovely to see so many people – and so many children - there. Without what those brave soldiers did for us, none of us would be here.
We will never forget.
Sweet post
Thank you
Lovely post, all of us from work went out on Friday for it, very moving x
Thank you; I think it’s so important everyone keeps doing it and this service on sunday was so moving; I had tears in my eyes
Lovely post, and very important to remember you are right.
We always have the 2 minutes silence at work on the 11th (so this year on Friday) or the closest day to it.
So do we and what was lovely was that no one’s phone rang for the whole two minutes – unheard of in our office!
How wonderful! Veteran’s Day here in the U.S. is special to me. My husband was in the Army, a Captain in the military police during the Vietnam war. We go to his army reunions each year and we hear the stories told by the other soldiers. I am always so touched to hear the stories told by the WW II vets. They are amazing.
I know and the brilliant thing is, they’re all so humble. They say things like “we weren’t heroes” or “I was just doing my job” – but they saved all of us.
It sounds like a very moving day. What gorgeous weather to go with it.
It was beautiful. The service would have been lovely anyway but it was so nice in the sun
Beautiful post. I was surprised how little mention there was of Veteran’s Day/Remembrance Day in the blogworld!
I couldn’t not mention it! I’ve had the privilege of interviewing a few WW2 veterans for the paper and they’re true heroes.
Loved the picture of the veteran with the smile and the green hat. Really captured the moment.
Thank you. He’s a Burma veteran from WW2; I’m hoping to meet him again properly soon and hear his story.
I love the picture of the veteran! Veteran’s Day definitely has a place in my heart- both my grandfathers and three of my uncles are veterans.
Wow, that’s real military tradition – they’re all so brave and deserve our respect
Beautiful. Truly.
Thank you so much!
Lovely tribute post.
Thank you!
Beautiful post x
Thank you, it was such a beautiful service