An email from one of the visitors to our website:
“I’m 45 and know that i wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the brave old soldiers from round the world that made us free.I felt very sad today as i was in Hammersmith London W6, and not many people were wearing Poppy’s and not many people stopped and stood still for the 2mins silence.
I work for London transport and going back 5 years every bus would pull over and stop,well not today people were still rushing about there business and didn’t bother to respect the dead. Even on the news you see the soldiers at the cenotaph standing still look in the back ground people walking about, still driving.
As our country has become more cosmopolitan the old traditions we had in England are dieing out, as the new generation don’t give a dam. Tomorrow i visit all my family graves to place poppy crosses and then lay a cross for the fallen soldiers of Hammersmith/Fulham. “
You can visit our Remembrance Day pages st
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Remembrance.html
Can you answer the following questions? All the answers can be found on our Rememberance pages:
- What is November 11th called in Britain?
- Where does the National Remembrance Day ceremony take place in London?
- Who lays the first wreath?
- Where do people lay wreaths?
- Why do people lay wreaths on Remembrance Day?
- What is the red flower called that people wear? (Answer here).
- Why is this red flower used on November 11th? (Answer here).
(Watch a video of Remembrance Day 2007 event here).
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7 comments:
I enjoyed reading and learning about your Rememberance Day pages. Its something that todays younger generation don’t understand or appreciate as much as those who witnessed WW1 & WW2. Reading your website brings it it to the forefront of your mind and makes you thankful for what we have.
I found your site by clicking on the poppy on the google motife,i found the site very interesting,although being 47yrs old i still think it is very important to teach the children of today just what there reletives went through,to give us a safe future,the poems on the site are really heartfelt considering i can remember as a child hearing my father crying at night because of nightmares he was having,because of the war, and seeing his brother killed by a mortar. One thing that i dont understand though is today, i have heard our soldiers called boys and girls,yet over sixty years ago they were called men and woman,i think some people seem to forget that sixty yrs ago they were only children as well,but they still gave there lives for there country,that is why we must never forget them,and what they did for us.It is a good site.GOD BLESS.
i am a member of the letchworth army cadet force and remberance day is very special to me because i get to pay my respects to my great great grandfather who died in the war . excellant
Came across your site, very good. I was looking up info on veterans in my extended family;
Ralph Cashen, American Infantry, NE Europe, WWII
Trygve Soylant, USN Aviator, Pacific WWII
William McColgan, Royal Navy, Atlantic, WWII
Only Tryg’s alive to “remember” his comrades
Hi, I work in Tunisia for British Gas in a town called Sfax. We the expats who work here have been wearing our Poppys and my local Tunisian and Egyptian collegeus where asking me why we were them? So after trying to explain I did a search and your page came up and very informative and useful to. So thank you for putting the page together.
Kind regards Dave G. BSC MIOSH MIIRSM
Your clear information has helped me put together a slightly different service of remembrance for our Sunday school. Your information is clear, linked together well and shows a sympathetic approach to a difficult subject – well done and thank you.
we shall always remember them with pride,where ever they lay.
for their courage,valour and self sacrifice!
may god bless them and grant them eternal rest.
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