General Chat

Wasn't it lovely?
The Soldiers sang Coming Home and I saw a few men in the audience wiping their eyes as it ended. Faryl Smith's voice just gets better and better but I do wish they would stop putting her in those stupid dresses and flat shoes, she is 14 now (her birthday is two days before mine) surely she could wear something a little less like a kid's old fashioned party dress.
There were so many brave men and women there and I always feel very patriotic and humble when I watch the ceremony and hear the music.

Lizx

Hi Liz
It was lovely, and very moving, the cd is brilliant

must admit was very emotional during the whole service.
Liz

I watched too and was very moved.

The yound widow who led the widows down was so composed.

Linda

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row.
That marks our place; and in the sky
The larks , still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields

Lt Col John McCrae (1872-1918)

It was very moving; and has been presented with great dignity and compassion by Huw Edwards, Richard Baker, and Ralph Reader. I was impressed by Princess Anne's reading.

I too watched it with friends............we all thought it was very moving.
The Soldiers singing "Coming Home" made both us girls cry and their was a tear in my hubs eye too.

Hubs bought me the C.D. yesterday and it is lovely.

x

Keep the Faith

Oh ! you who sleep in Flanders Fields
Sleep sweet-to arise anew !
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high ,we keep the Faith
With All who died

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
But lends a luster to the red
Of the flowers that bloom above the dead
In Flanders Fields

And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honour of our dead
Fear not that ye have died for naught
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields

Moina Michael.November 1918

The sad thing is we do not appear to learn

I agree I was very moved by the Remembrance Service and have just watched the Cenotaph service.
It is more poignant this year because of all the soldiers nowadays that are getting killed and their family and friends left with the memories.
Sue x

I too was very moved, but what really did it for me was when my little boy said "All those soldiers died for me didn't they Mammy?, so that me and my friends can be free."

I now know he understands what it is all about.

Dianne xx