Spent the two minutes observing the silence at 11am.Gave my donation earlier in the week,got a poppy and a wristband which is better for me,as I don’t wear a jacket.
thats why service men women do there job to support freedom to either wear a poppy or not thats why we all have a choice .better to live free than be bullied into having no choice at all
jammymutt:
I watched the ceremony from home I cant go to the local thing or any other as I am far too emotional and I just burst in to tears wherever I am, the one thing that made me mad today was that glasgow celtic have banned the sale of poppies at their ground and the team didnt wear poppies today I thought that was pretty shocking.
Neither Celtic or St Johnstone wore poppies on their shirt.
I belive Celtic (as do many other clubs) ban the selling of the poppy inside the ground but there are tins and poppies inside the club shop and resteraunt etc.
There was when I wwent the other year.
They maybe took the veiw that by not having the poppy on the sirt it would save the pathetic protests from the mongs in the “Green Brigade” from across the water.
ROG:
I support all our armed service personnel 365/24/7 so do not need to make a special effort to do so on one day of the yearAs for supporting any Govt that sent them into certain places … not a ZB chance
I feel bad about it, but I think more about the two World Wars than recent conflicts. Might be because I’ve always liked history but I’ve always felt a connection to the past than what’s happening now. I can read allday about names on our local memorial but I don’t always read about a death in Afghanistan when in the paper.
That’s the same for a few people.
Possibly because the war over there isn’t directly affecting our day-to-day lives. It’s easy to forget about, pretend it’s not happening. Would be different if we were getting aircraft raids every night.
Soldier z:
jammymutt:
I watched the ceremony from home I cant go to the local thing or any other as I am far too emotional and I just burst in to tears wherever I am, the one thing that made me mad today was that glasgow celtic have banned the sale of poppies at their ground and the team didnt wear poppies today I thought that was pretty shocking.Neither Celtic or St Johnstone wore poppies on their shirt.
I belive Celtic (as do many other clubs) ban the selling of the poppy inside the ground but there are tins and poppies inside the club shop and resteraunt etc.
There was when I wwent the other year.They maybe took the veiw that by not having the poppy on the sirt it would save the pathetic protests from the mongs in the “Green Brigade” from across the water.
the green brigade across the water? !!! a massive club like celtic should remember they are part of the uk not ireland lol.
I think people should remember,as most of the servicemen and women in the two world wars were conscripted into the armed forces.They didn’t have a choice,unless they were in a reserved occupation.
Dave the Renegade:
I think people should remember,as most of the servicemen and women in the two world wars were conscripted into the armed forces.They didn’t have a choice,unless you were in a reserved occupation.
a huge proportion of the soldiers of the first world war were volunteers(pals regiments),and i think all women in world war two were also volunteers
andrew.s:
Dave the Renegade:
I think people should remember,as most of the servicemen and women in the two world wars were conscripted into the armed forces.They didn’t have a choice,unless you were in a reserved occupation.a huge proportion of the soldiers of the first world war were volunteers(pals regiments),and i think all women in world war two were also volunteers
At the start of 1914 the British Army had a reported strength of 710,000 men including reserves, of which around 80,000 were regular troops ready for war. By the end of World War I almost 1 in 4 of the total male population of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland had joined, over five million men. Of these men 2.67 million joined as Volunteers and 2.77 million as conscripts (although some volunteered after conscription was introduced and would most likely have been conscripted anyway).
andrew.s:
Dave the Renegade:
I think people should remember,as most of the servicemen and women in the two world wars were conscripted into the armed forces.They didn’t have a choice,unless you were in a reserved occupation.a huge proportion of the soldiers of the first world war were volunteers(pals regiments),and i think all women in world war two were also volunteers
I don’t want to side track this to much from the question of who showed respect on rememberance day, but !! If you never volunteered in the first one and refused conscription you where shot !!! So you shouldn’t use the word ‘volunteer’ so loosely !!!
Probably the majority reading will have seen the film Saving Private Ryan and know what it was about. But how many know the story of the British Garland and Gray families?
Dr and Mrs C Garland lost four (all) of their sons who served with the RAF in WW2.
Mr and Mrs E Gray lost three out of the five of their sons who served with the RAF.
Pilot Officer Donald Garland and Sergeant Tom Gray were both posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for their bravery during the suicidal attack on the Maastricht Bridges in May 1940
There was a third member of the crew in their Fairey Battle, Leading Aircraftsman Roy Reynolds, who also died - he merely received a Mention in Despatches.
Cheers for that, very strange he’s obviously gone out of his way and made sure a poppy wasnt stitched onto his shirt.
Disrespectful ■■■■, must have some personal issues.
Soldier z:
jammymutt:
I watched the ceremony from home I cant go to the local thing or any other as I am far too emotional and I just burst in to tears wherever I am, the one thing that made me mad today was that glasgow celtic have banned the sale of poppies at their ground and the team didnt wear poppies today I thought that was pretty shocking.Neither Celtic or St Johnstone wore poppies on their shirt.
I belive Celtic (as do many other clubs) ban the selling of the poppy inside the ground but there are tins and poppies inside the club shop and resteraunt etc.
There was when I wwent the other year.They maybe took the veiw that by not having the poppy on the sirt it would save the pathetic protests from the mongs in the “Green Brigade” from across the water.
“Green brigade”?
reason why problem is with poppy it remembers all british soldiers.
Same soldiers that killed innocent civilians in likes of derry bloody sunday, and 11 in ballymurphy in belfast in 1971 where priest also was murderd.
These is reason why likes of a footballer for sunderland james mc clean is from derry refused to where the poppy.
its just people with there own views i guess, i myself wouldnt wear one though i wouldnt have any problem with anybody wearing one.
each to there own i say.
Muckaway:
What do people do with their old poppies? A few years back I went to my Great Uncles’ funeral, where it came out he’d been a tank driver, arriving in the desert post Tobruk and went on through Italy and was around Monte Cassino. After he was buried, I dropped my poppy into the grave. I’m thinking of putting this years’ one at the site of a plane crash near where my grandparents lived.
last year i left mine at raf scampton, as it wasn’t long after a red arrow pilot lost his life.
cav551:
Probably the majority reading will have seen the film Saving Private Ryan and know what it was about. But how many know the story of the British Garland and Gray families?Dr and Mrs C Garland lost four (all) of their sons who served with the RAF in WW2.
Mr and Mrs E Gray lost three out of the five of their sons who served with the RAF.Pilot Officer Donald Garland and Sergeant Tom Gray were both posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for their bravery during the suicidal attack on the Maastricht Bridges in May 1940
There was a third member of the crew in their Fairey Battle, Leading Aircraftsman Roy Reynolds, who also died - he merely received a Mention in Despatches.
My daughter bought me the book Brothers in Arms by Michael Walsh, its about the Beechey family from Lincolnshire. They had 14 children 6 girls and 8 boys all who went to war (WW1) only 3 came back. One of the daughters had kept all the letters they sent home. The author only found out about them by accident. It was rainning and he took shelter in the church at Little Rissington on the wall in there he found a plaque with 5 brothers (can’t remember the name) from the local area.He couldn’t get any info on them but came across the Beechy family and with a lot of persuasion wrote the book. Well worth a read.
Ade
Each to their own exactly.
A guy in the local town centre was selling H4H wristbands (quite agressively), I told him I didn’t want one.
He then went on a bit of a rant, quite loud so everyone could hear, about why I should buy one.
I still declined, he muttered something about me being tight.
Still, he wasn’t to know I’ve personally raised over £700 for H4H, am ex-forces myself, and my brother has come back from Afghan physically intact but mentally demolished.
So the point really, don’t judge a book by it’s cover.
As a local councillor, we just stood at the back and let the local lads take the glory, just to remember the dead.
Wheel Nut:
As a local councillor, we just stood at the back and let the local lads take the glory, just to remember the dead.
We’ve got them here too mate, they give out parking tickets !!! 
irishrover:
Soldier z:
jammymutt:
I watched the ceremony from home I cant go to the local thing or any other as I am far too emotional and I just burst in to tears wherever I am, the one thing that made me mad today was that glasgow celtic have banned the sale of poppies at their ground and the team didnt wear poppies today I thought that was pretty shocking.Neither Celtic or St Johnstone wore poppies on their shirt.
I belive Celtic (as do many other clubs) ban the selling of the poppy inside the ground but there are tins and poppies inside the club shop and resteraunt etc.
There was when I wwent the other year.They maybe took the veiw that by not having the poppy on the sirt it would save the pathetic protests from the mongs in the “Green Brigade” from across the water.
“Green brigade”?
reason why problem is with poppy it remembers all british soldiers.
Same soldiers that killed innocent civilians in likes of derry bloody sunday, and 11 in ballymurphy in belfast in 1971 where priest also was murderd.
These is reason why likes of a footballer for sunderland james mc clean is from derry refused to where the poppy.its just people with there own views i guess, i myself wouldnt wear one though i wouldnt have any problem with anybody wearing one.
each to there own i say.
My Irish grandmother’s brother was shot by the British forces at the age of 16 the result being that what remained of her family decided to leave the place for America.She was split up with her older siblings and was brought here as a child with a distant relative.Where she eventually grew up to meet and marry my Grandfather who was a volunteer reservist in the British army before the start of WW2 and then spent the duration of WW2 fighting in the European theatre while Ireland remained neutral.While she contributed to the war effort on the home front,including surviving bombing raids and V weapon attacks which demolished houses and caused casualties close by,while also raising two children during the years that he was away.Those lost years being added to by the fact that she lost him to illness when he was 50 and she then spent the next almost 35 years as a widow.
youtube.com/watch?v=BZ-C6eZ0 … re=related
He was actually lucky enough to be in the right time and the right place to contribute to getting rid of at least some of the actual culprits who did that just like many of those he was lucky enough to serve with did but who weren’t lucky enough to survive the fighting.
As far as I know he didn’t hold those British forces,who’d killed his wife’s brother many years previously,in much better regard either just as I don’t.It’s all about seperating right from wrong while there’s no contradictiction between respecting those who uphold the former while also understanding the difference. 
wheelyb:
Not a slating thread, just a question on how you showed respect today, if at all!I mean, did you time taking a break over the 11:00 period to show silence for 2 mins out of the year?
Do you have a poppy on yer truck? pics?
I did not even know it was that time of year again mate
how time flies