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They shall not grow 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.

Glad to see someone remembered. We certainly will not forget. We certainly will remember those who gave so much. Some paid the ultimate sacrifice and some still remain who have to live with painful memories of lost colleagues and friends. Some who remain still bear the scars of war not only physical but mental and emotional scars. Some who survived the wars have since passed away and we remember them and the part they played in securing our freedom. It is a poignant year this year for me as my Dad passed away this year. He served in WW2 in the Minesweeper Corps. So good-bye Dad, farewell and thanks Melvyn

From the mud, through the blood , to the green green fields beyound. Twizzle

we remember them!! amen

To my Dad,who flew in Liberators, and died last year, and all his comrades that didnt come back, Yes We Will, and should always remember them...All Bob

lovely tribute that. to my g-grandad William Brown who died of wounds in France on July the 16th 1918. How you survived Galipolli for 8 months is beyond me. catherine xx

Will be going to the cemetary later to put poppy crosses on my dad who fought in the Korean War and my nans 2 cousins that died in WW2. We will remember them all. God bless Jackie

In memory of my father-in-law Jim, who died this year aged 96, having served as a senior medical NCO with the Parachute Regiment during WW2. Also in memory of my Great Uncle Frederick, killed in France in 1918 aged just 19. Thank you. Dee x

Yes Jess we shall not forget them. God Bless all the brave men June.x

To my g/uncle who underage survived The Somme and lived to be 91yrs old. To my parents and their generation during WW2 who lost so much of their youth and sacrificed so much that we, those who came after have never suffered what they endured. Aileen xx

When 13-year-old Rebecca Sullivan penned a war poem for a homework assignment she thought only her teacher would see it. But the piece entitled There Lie Forgotten Men is now to be heard by thousands when she reads it out at the country's biggest Armistice Day service. Rebecca Sullivan learned about Remembrance Day at school Her teacher was so moved by the poem - which describes a world in which war dead are all but forgotten - she sent it to the Royal British Legion. Officials decided to include it in a service at Trafalgar Square after deciding that it stood out from the hundreds of poems the Legion receives each year. Rebecca wrote her piece after being moved by the poems of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon which she read as part of a school project. 'The way they wrote about war and the needless death of soldiers really moved me,' the pupil at Highlands School, in Enfield, north London, said. 'It was the feeling that nothing would happen for these soldiers after they died, they would get no proper burial or funeral and would be remembered only by their loved ones. I wanted to express how important it is that the people who have died in wars are remembered 'I really liked Wilfred Owen's Anthem for a Doomed Youth. It really brought out some powerful feelings. 'I wanted to do the same thing with my poem. I wanted to express how important it is that the people who have died in wars are remembered.' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

There Lie Forgotten Men They lie there in their thousands The last rays of sunlight Catching the white of the gravestones Lending a poignancy to the moment Numbering in their thousands they lay Deserving remembrance And yet the scarred green fields are empty Nothing remains here The processions of people vanished with the years Their sacrifice all but forgotten She stands there alone At the edge of the silent place And she is shocked New wars brew and these forgotten men Will play no part in them The dead silence warn no ears but hers In great halls in moments of great decision What they fought for is forsaken And by days end new gravestones Appear on the blood red ground She finds what she seeks 'Sgt John Malley Age 27' His life brutally ended And she stands by his grave But he can give no answers And she weeps for him For the empty hole he left behind And for the new emptiness Soon to join the black chasm And her tears join the flood Rebecca Sullivan

I have just sat with my 2 littlest ones hugging them, before we were silent I explained to them we were to show respect for 2 minutes, Thankyou to all the dear men who were so brave, we will never forget you, A hug to daddy from Will and abi... Carol xxx

we were at the school allotment again today. just before 11 we went to a nature area they call Fox Meadow and we (4 adults and 5 children) had a lovely 2 minutes silence there with the birds singing around us. the children will have a special assembly at school on monday too. Maz. XX

For my father in law Walter Jones who died in 1999. He served with the Commandos in Hong Kong during WW2. Jojo x

For my Dad, Les Harris who served in the navy in the second world war. Having his 21st birthday on board HMS Linnet