#remembrance-sunday — Public Fediverse posts
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Brixham waterfront sites including memorial gardens could be sold for £1 https://www.allforgardening.com/1752746/brixham-waterfront-sites-including-memorial-gardens-could-be-sold-for-1/ #ArmedForces #Brixham #garden #gardening #RemembranceSunday #Torbay #TorbayCouncil
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It always gets me when they read the list of the names of the fallen. Ours is a small town and the list is not very long. For some letters there are only one or two names, for others many. These lists only give initials before the family name, as was English custom until quite recently; my college yearbook still did it 30 years ago. Thus we hear the names in semi-anonymity, A. Smith, A.S. Smith, B.K Smith, D.M.B. Smith, E.T. Smith, ..., images of unknown lives flash before us, one after the other. The lists are read by older pupils from the local school, fine young voices, confident voices, the fallen were of their age. The readers normally stay cool, but today one of them comes close to tears, perhaps a sense of the endless waste of life, perhaps just nervousness. Either way, she carries on with clear but trembling voice. Halfway through the names it starts raining. I keep my hat off until we've reached B. Yeo, the last on the list.
[No actual names quoted.]
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Good evening. It's 9PM, #Sunday, 9th November. The headlines: BBC's Tim Davie steps down as Director General, with the Chair lamenting his exit. The Chair prepares for MPs' queries on a #Trump video. Typhoon Fung-wong strikes the #Philippines, and the King observes a two-minute silence for Remembrance Sunday. The Culture Secretary confers with BBC's Laura Kuenssberg. #RemembranceSunday #BBC #News
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A picture of #RemembranceSunday #remembranceday from Stoke Minster. #ww1
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CW: Remembrance Sunday; UK patriotism and ukpol
After a rapid start and a busy day, I only just found time for my personal #RemembranceSunday ritual. I take some quiet time to read Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum Est out loud, to myself, and consider its imagery and its meaning.
The rise of fascism among people calling themselves patriots is just one example of how Remembrance has become a nationalistic fetish, rather than a genuine and solemn act of personal reflection. The poppy has become an opportunity for scolding people for being less "patriotic", rather than something worn with sincere respect for its origins. I was pleased to see the Royal British Legion call this out.
When we say "Lest we forget", we must remember not only what happened in two World Wars and other conflicts, but why it happened. How there is no such thing as a "good war". And how we must defeat fascism whenever it rears its hateful head.
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Good evening. It's 6PM, #Sunday, 9th November. The headlines: Super Typhoon Fung-wong struck the #Philippines, while the #UK observed #Remembrance Sunday with nationwide services and a two-minute silence headed by the King. The RAF plans to send anti-drone experts to Belgium. #RemembranceSunday #BBC #News
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For Remembrance Sunday a repost of my blog post about the WW1 experiences of my great granddad from Melrose in the Scottish Borders. https://vivsancestry.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/remembering-great-granddads-ww1-service-100-years-after-he-enlisted/ #Scotland #ScottishBorders #Melrose #WW1 #Gallipoli #RemembranceSunday
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He lacks the ordnance of words.
A self-portrait shows
stitches where his mouth should be;
eyes like empty casings.
He left a part of himself in the desert,
this ultra-Marine…—Sandra Ireland, “Ultramarine”
published in New Writing Scotland 36 (2018)#RemembranceSunday #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #trauma
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Good afternoon. It's 3PM, #Sunday, 9th November. The headlines: The #UK observes Remembrance Sunday with ceremonies and a two-minute silence observed by the King. The #Philippines braces for Super Typhoon Fung-wong. Global leaders gather in Brazil for a UN #climate conference. The US Supreme Court halts an order on food stamp funding, as the US Senate convenes to tackle a potential government shutdown. #RemembranceSunday #BBC #News
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Chan fhaca mi Lannes aig Ratasbon
no MacGillFhinnein aig Allt Èire
no Gill-Ìosa aig Cùil Lodair,
ach chunnaic mi Sasannach san Èipheit.(I did not see Lannes at Ratisbon
nor MacLennan at Auldearn
nor Gillies MacBain at Culloden,
but I saw an Englishman in Egypt.)—Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean), “Curaidhean” (“Heroes”)
Sorley MacLean was severely wounded at El Alamein, 1942
#RemembranceSunday #Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poem #poetry #warpoetry #WW2
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To Marykirk ye’ll set ye forth.
An’ whustle as ye step alang,
An’ aye the Grampians i’ the North
Are glow’rin’ on ye as ye gang.
By Martin’s Den, through beech an’ birk,
A breith comes soughin’, sweet an’ strang,
Alang the road to Marykirk…—Violet Jacob, “The Road to Marykirk”
#RemembranceSunday #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #warpoetry #WW1
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Past life, past tears, far past the grave,
The tryst is set for me,
Since, for our all, your all you gave
On the slopes of Picardy…—Violet Jacob, “To A.H.J.”
Violet Jacob’s only son, Harry, was killed at the Battle of the Somme on 16 July 1916, aged 20
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/502598/arthur-henry-augustus-jacob/
#RemembranceSunday #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #warpoetry #WW1
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Charles Hamilton Sorley was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915, aged 20. A pencilled manuscript of his poem “When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead” was found in his kit after his death. Andrew O’Hagan recites the poem in this clip from 2014
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p024c62h
#RemembranceSunday #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #warpoetry #WW1
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When you see millions of the mouthless dead
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you’ll remember. For you need not so…—Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47427/when-you-see-millions-of-the-mouthless-dead
#RemembranceSunday #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #warpoetry #WW1
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#RemembranceSunday is now trending across Mastodon
#こと打って出て来たものが誕生日にもらえるもの is now trending across Mastodon
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The Green Fields of France
First broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster in 2016. Gerry Kelly travels to France to visit the scenes that inspired Eric Bogle, to learn more about World War I, & to discover who, if anyone, was the real Willie McBride
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‘To Bogle’s surprise, the grave of Private William McBride, of the Inniskilling Fusiliers, has become something of a pilgrimage site […] “I keep telling people [the name] was chosen at random…”’
—Claire Hunter, “Return to no man’s land”
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Well how do you do, Private William McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
And I’ll rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
I’ve been walking all day long, and I’m nearly done…—Eric Bogle, “No Man’s Land”
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About to take twin A to her final coaching class prior to her ISTD Ballet Exam later in the week. Then quick change of clothes for twin A and I take twin A and twin B to the Remembrance Sunday march. They participate with their Girl Guides / Scouts group. Ours is a garrison town so these events have special meaning here. I never manage to get through the event without some tears. Thinking of my father too, who as a very young man fought in Russia on the wrong side and who stood on the right side for the rest of his life. He'd be 101 this year. Miss him. So proud of my girls. Castorp, our whippet, will come along too.
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“There had been half a dozen men in that party of returning heroes…They kept their stinking coats buttoned tight, in lieu of bandages over whatever unspeakable mess lay beneath, and they had the smell of death about them. The inn’s regulars made space for them, and talked quietly, like people in a sacred place. Her father…quietly put a generous tot of brandy into each mug of ale, and refused all payment.”
Terry Pratchett; Monstrous Regiment
#Discworld #RemembranceSunday #WeShallRememberThem 💙
