emmerson2:
It was very impressive in the NEC yesterday, except for one two in the cafe who carried on talking, while sat at the table.
On Friday I pulled car and caravan into a layby at 11.00, for our own two minutes reflection.
Got a couple of strange looks from a fella on the phone in the car in front!
I was also there with my Brother. I was very impressed that the hundreds in the hall I was in just stopped and were silent with their thoughts. Quite moving.
Managed to pull up just in time when I found a piece of waste ground (wouldn’t call it a lay-by) at 1057, a few hundred yards from the memorial at Crossmichael on the main 713, just up from Castle Douglas. Could just hear the faint strains of the bugler as I leant against some random 5-bar gate faced with a field full of inquisitive sheep, taking in the tranquil scenery, thinking of folk I’ve known and are gone. Moments like that don’t come along very often.
Couldn’t hang about and next drop was Kirkgunzeon. By the time I got to the main roundabout in Castle Douglas, their service had literally just finished.
Rikki-UK:
It probably goes unnoticed, but these forums go offline at the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day every year for two minutes, and again at the eleventh hour on remembrance sunday. We do not and will not forget.
Good to know, Rikki.
My lecturer on Friday asked if we wanted to do the 2 minute silence. Most of my class weren’t bothered but I was so we did it. Apparently its not a big thing in Germany (she is German) and its more of a British thing. I said its not a British thing, its a global thing! She knows I am ex Army and I guess she realised she was touching a very raw nerve
Laing O’Rourke have had a slating in the Oxford Mail for ignoring Armistice Day…
oxfordmail.co.uk/news/149055 … ding_work/
Rikki-UK:
It probably goes unnoticed, but these forums go offline at the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day every year for two minutes, and again at the eleventh hour on remembrance sunday. We do not and will not forget.
Didn’t realise that, well impressed, what a great mark of respect, 
bestbooties:
This was my grand dad (On my mothers side), after being shot and gassed in WW1. He returned to the front and came back to father
four more children, including my mother.
If it were not for the sacrifices made by my grand dad and his brothers in arms, I would not be here, great respect.
As a former squaddie and the Secretary of my local Regimental Association, I take Remembrance Day very seriously.
My wife and I were married while I was serving, and she is now an ordained priest, and as our Association Chaplain, she proudly wears my Regimental badge on her stole.
I was very pleased to see many small children at our local Remembrance services on Friday and Sunday.
Absolute full respect to you and especially your lovely wife. That bought a tear to my eye sir.
well I live in rural Canada and yes 11/11/2016 was respected at my home village everything is shut down for the day ,but this year I was away visiting friends who live out in the bush in Northern Ontario and at 11oclock my mate and I were outside his house and a couple o lumber trucks hauling out of a landing further up the dirt pulled up and the drivers got out for the 2minutes until we heard the cannon the legion at the nearest village across the lake …a little nod at each other after the silence and we got on with our lives
(in Manitoba all stores etc are shut all day or open only after 1pm) hotels fuelstations restaurants are allowed to be open but must shut the doors at 11am for 2 minutes and staff cant be forced to work.
JIMBO47:
well I live in rural Canada and yes 11/11/2016 was respected at my home village everything is shut down for the day ,but this year I was away visiting friends who live out in the bush in Northern Ontario and at 11oclock my mate and I were outside his house and a couple o lumber trucks hauling out of a landing further up the dirt pulled up and the drivers got out for the 2minutes until we heard the cannon the legion at the nearest village across the lake …a little nod at each other after the silence and we got on with our lives
(in Manitoba all stores etc are shut all day or open only after 1pm) hotels fuelstations restaurants are allowed to be open but must shut the doors at 11am for 2 minutes and staff cant be forced to work.
Maybe England, who played an immense part in this conflict, should make it a national holiday. I have never understood why it isn’t like it is here in France. A day to remember and reflect.
This year, because it is the centenary, 100 years since the battle of the Somme, there have been loads of ceremonies and exhibitions around the towns of Albert, Bapaume, Arras, to name a few, the list goes on, where there are museums and memorials . The war-graves of the fallen dotted all over this area have been inundated with visitors and floral tributes.
aye pierrot times changed I can mind back in rural Scotland when growing up it was a big thing going to the village memorial on remembrance day…whoa betide any one that didn’t show up.
