Please watch this, it is a very fitting video for Rememberance day… God bless and a huge THANK YOU to all Veterans of past and present who if it was not for the sacrifices they made, we would not be able to enjoy or freedom today!!;)
By: critter592 - 11th November 2009 at 20:31
Very moving videos. Thanks for posting them.
Kev, your post says it all for me, as does the song, “A Pittance Of Time”.
On a personal note…
On Sunday, we attended the Remembrance Service at Flintham, in Nottinghamshire. Afterwards, we all gathered at the Memorial at Screveton for a brief service to remember the 11 RAF crewmen who lost their lives in a mid-air collision above the village in 1944.
Today, on our business trip to Boston, I stopped the car & switched off at 11:00 for two minutes.
On our return, we called at the Memorial to Lancaster ND820 at Bicker.
Six of the seven crew of this aircraft still lie in the fields.
Don
By: bombsaway - 11th November 2009 at 18:28
All three vidoes are so moving, thank you for sharing all of them
By: Flygirl - 11th November 2009 at 14:17
I do like this tribute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyi0PQRu8Q
By: scotavia - 11th November 2009 at 14:05
Interesting that you mention Korea , the veterans set up a fund in the UK to give grants for people studying in Korea because it is a good way of making real bonds between the countries. My wife was assisted with some of the cost of spending 8 months at a Korean university as part of her degree in Korean Studies (run by the University of Sheffield) As a result I have learnt a lot more about Korea and its people.
By: kev35 - 11th November 2009 at 13:26
Peter.
Every year you post that song. And every year it makes me cry. It may be sentimentality on my part, but I hope it is understanding, and a little humility.
The majority of us who post on fora such as this remember every day. We remember the tiny little bits of past conflicts which, for whatever reason, impinge on our daily lives. It may be loved ones that inspire, or the actions of someone who has gone before which encourage us to look deeper into the meaning of an individual’s life, maybe their death too. Maybe a chance meeting with a Veteran has inspired us, or the desire to understand what took place at that now deserted airfield. For each of us, remembrance is something different and personal throughout the course of the year. Each of the people we remember make us somehow stronger. This past year I have been touched by the Henstocks in the Great War, Private May of the Gloucesters, a Wellington crew who looked for Turin but found only a mountainside and, of course, Dominique Biaggi.
Yet this time of year, Remembrance becomes a National, no, international thing. It is forced into our collective consciousness for a few brief weeks in November. It is a special time when we remember collectively. Made no less poignant by the events in Afghanistan.
A Korean Veteran in Morrison’s broke down in tears because of the money I placed in his tin and because I recognised where he had seen action. Not a war, just a dirty little ‘police action’ during which his friends who died were no less dead than those who went over the top on July 1st 1916 or landed at Normandy.
It’s places such as this that keep the memories alive all through the year, not just in November.
Regards,
kev35
By: Phantom Phil - 11th November 2009 at 12:52
Here is a really GOOD one!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtl5kmWrFLg&feature=related
Rest in Peace our war dead!!!
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