Soon to start

 

just finished.

always very moving

 

Much respect

 

indeed
for always

 

With what is going on in the world we need this show of patriotism even more now. May it continue for ever.
JohnD

 

Missed it, but I was in bed so would have been fairly quiet I think

 

Well said-by all

 

It's my sons 5th birthday today. He was born 11.11 on 11.11.97. Needless to say, I didn't have my silence on that day! Did today although rest of the office carried on as normal which suprised me. God bless all the people who died in the war.

 

 

maximum respect.

 

I'm disgusted with the place where I work, did they show any respect?

Did they F*CK

I ignored everyone for 2 mins

Mike

 

Yes, I observed two minutes silence, as I always do on armistice day. Shame the majority of people in the rest of the office had such exciting weekends that they couldn't spare two minutes to shut up about it and think of others.

 

It's worth remembering that officially 19,240 British and Commonwealth soldiers lost their lives in one day's fighting - 1st July 1916. Puts other tragic events into perspective don't you think?

 

Took my grandfather to the Rememberance Sunday parade at our local war memorial. Not many of his contemporaries left, unfortunately, although we did meet a bloke with a 'Normandy Landings 1944' badge on his jacket. My grandad had more medals than him though (7)

 

I went to a remembrance service yesterday and planned to have another 2 min silence where I worked but everyone carried on regardless so like RB170, I just ignored everyone for 2 minutes.

It’s sad because I think a lot of people don’t realise how many people made the ultimate sacrifice, it also annoys me greatly when I hear other young people say “I don’t know what the big fuss is all about” I’m 22 and have much respect for the veterans as I may not be here if it wasn’t for them. Who knows what the world would be like if we’d lost the war.

My 5p’s worth

Thanks

Dan

 

The idiots at my company did our silence at 11:11am, instead of the 'proper' 11:00am. I phoned up afterwards to point this out, and the guy said he knew what he was doing 'cos he was "ex-services". Pffff.

 

During the minutes silence at our place, I remembered a quote I read once. Seemed to sum up how I felt

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood. At best, he knows the triumph of high achievement; if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt.

Seems to me a good rule to live by too..

 

If it wern't for them, god knows where we would be, God bless them all.
Cheers
Colin

 

Some words I read recently

I for one will never forget, and will hope that I can do my best to pass the message to future generations, so they remember to.

David

[Edited by Shark - 11/11/2002 9:17:21 PM]

 

And I should add, the next generation hopefully will profit from the mistakes. For that is the reason to remember in my opinion.

David

 

My Dad's old crew,there is only one of them left now.

Respect.