I'm well f'in angry

[Sippo]

Why have some people got no respect whatsoever?!! Kids shouting and screaming at 11am. No thought or care for the elder generation.

I watched and am still watching the service on the bbc news chanel, and it is quite touching. Might sound gay, but the three gents over the age of 100 are just amazing.

[leefer]

Brilliant...and very moving.

[janaage]

You gotta love the Patch, Harry Patch. 

Well observed here, as you would expect, althought there were some people who just carried on as normal.  Makes me angry too, 2 mins isn't much to show your respect.

[my-velocity]

People in our office just talking away, even though it was announced on the tannoy that we'd have a 2 minutes silence..preety disgraceful really. Maybe i was just brought up wrong.

[Fred Elliot]

The whole of the stadium stopped here

It was fucking eerie

[Sussex]

Makes you think. That last fella really didn't want to let go of his wreath of poppies.

[Jamiesfuturewife]

soon there will be no old men fromt he 1st world war left 

[Peter Venkman]

It is awful that a lot of people wont respect the silence, they died for us after all.

I probably sound like an old fart but it was always respected when I was a kid back in the 70's, and well into the 80's people used to stop in the street, we would have the fly past by the 3 Herc's from Lyneham.

Hopefully next year I am off to Ypres to see my Great Uncles grave at Menin Gate.

I wont ever not observe it and my kids as long as I live.

LEST WE FORGET.

[janaage]

I was talking to a Irishman the other day (a staunch republican) and he was giving me a bit of hassle for wearing a poppy (especially as I am more pro republican than unionist as it were - but that's another story), anyway I disagreed with his take on it, as to me wearing a poppy is about the millions upon millions of lads who were slaughtered in WWI, and for the fallen in WWII.  I know the poppy represents others who have fallen in other conflicts but to me it's mostly about WWI and WWII. 

Having said that no matter what war the fallen may have died in, every single one of them was some mother's son/daughter.  I don't agree with Iraq for example, but when you seen the lads who have died, or have lost a limb, it makes it an individual thing, not a political one.

[chalkies_shorts]

You can support the dead without supporting the wars so nobody should have a problem with poppies.
As for ignorant bastards talknig through the 2 minute silence - it would be good to send them to the front line - they might have more respect then - bloody peasants.

[Phil_S]

Part of the problem is that the kids aren't taught anything about it now at school. Last night on Points West (or HTV) there were two kids who didn't know anything what so ever about it, tonight they are taking them to France to see for them selves.
Even worse in my opinion is that I hear that the Holocaust is being dropped from the ciriculum because it may "offend muslim sensibilities" s they deby it ever happened. If true that is an absolute disgrace.

[herthab]

I was talking to a Irishman the other day (a staunch republican) and he was giving me a bit of hassle for wearing a poppy (especially as I am more pro republican than unionist as it were - but that's another story), anyway I disagreed with his take on it, as to me wearing a poppy is about the millions upon millions of lads who were slaughtered in WWI, and for the fallen in WWII.  I know the poppy represents others who have fallen in other conflicts but to me it's mostly about WWI and WWII. 

Having said that no matter what war the fallen may have died in, every single one of them was some mother's son/daughter.  I don't agree with Iraq for example, but when you seen the lads who have died, or have lost a limb, it makes it an individual thing, not a political one.

Good post Jan. Remembrance Day is to remember the young men and women who died fighting for their Country. It's not about the rights and wrongs of the conflicts, or the suits who start them.............

[Sippo]

They go on school trips to the battlefields still.....and it is still taught in lessons.

[Phil_S]

I was talking to a Irishman the other day (a staunch republican) and he was giving me a bit of hassle for wearing a poppy (especially as I am more pro republican than unionist as it were - but that's another story), anyway I disagreed with his take on it, as to me wearing a poppy is about the millions upon millions of lads who were slaughtered in WWI, and for the fallen in WWII.  I know the poppy represents others who have fallen in other conflicts but to me it's mostly about WWI and WWII. 

Having said that no matter what war the fallen may have died in, every single one of them was some mother's son/daughter.  I don't agree with Iraq for example, but when you seen the lads who have died, or have lost a limb, it makes it an individual thing, not a political one.

Totally agree, with that. (Although I did support the Iraq invasion). (I was probably wrong on that one) but, History tells us that the politicians are often wrong but the troops are the ones who pay the real price. I think the phrase lions lead by donkeys was coined about WW1, but the lesson still hasn't been learnt

[Phil_S]

They go on school trips to the battlefields still.....and it is still taught in lessons.

The two on points west were probably playing truant then.