tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197429752310795554.post4561536895207843438..comments2024-03-23T11:27:26.709+00:00Comments on View From The High Peak: Remembrance Day - 'Just show business'?Carah Bodenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11429666157453439321noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197429752310795554.post-84863781205058054622014-04-22T18:51:35.777+01:002014-04-22T18:51:35.777+01:00Thank you for these wonderful tributes, you write ...Thank you for these wonderful tributes, you write so beautifully. We have everything to thank these brave men for and it is so important that the next generation knows this.<br />sirikoihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13712466339333435926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197429752310795554.post-2005847900570256382009-11-24T18:25:41.667+00:002009-11-24T18:25:41.667+00:00I just discovered your blog through your comment a...I just discovered your blog through your comment at Grumpy Old Ken's.<br /><br />Your writing is beautiful. This post brought me to tears. It is so important to remember those who fought and gave their lives so the rest of us can sleep safely and securely in our beds. The freedom we enjoy was paid for by the blood of our soldiers. Thank you for remembering them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197429752310795554.post-57416552355440976752009-11-18T19:00:20.235+00:002009-11-18T19:00:20.235+00:00No, I remember my Grandfather who gave his sanity ...No, I remember my Grandfather who gave his sanity to WW1, when he was gassed in the trenches, and spent the rest of his days in and out of mental asylums. My own Father, and my Father in Law, both of whom have fought for our country, In WW2, in Singapore, and Borneo. For my 3 Brother in Laws, who served in the Falklands, NI, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and for my friends, who have fought, and been disabled, and especially for my mate Dave, who has been in the Army 35 years and can't imagine any other life.<br /><br />I will continue to remember them each year too. I am hugely proud of them.Zoƫhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838367166662822058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197429752310795554.post-86172579378265391502009-11-13T11:50:32.375+00:002009-11-13T11:50:32.375+00:00I'm a little late getting to this post - visit...I'm a little late getting to this post - visiting in Ontario with my son and daughter-in-law. They are in the military, so our visit has been in quarters on the base. It's something to see the young people parade, knowing that they've lost so many friends and comrades over the past few years. I'm glad that the country has taken a renewed interest in Remembrance Day.Pondsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407539138546412482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197429752310795554.post-64723364693766092572009-11-12T23:25:22.932+00:002009-11-12T23:25:22.932+00:00I agree totally that our perspective changes as we...I agree totally that our perspective changes as we grow older. Remembrance Day stirs me in a way that I don't think it could have done when I was younger and we would all live forever. But I do still remember vividly reading Wilfred Owen and Siegfreid Sassoon poetry when I was at school. Being involved in such ceremonies and reading the letters and poems will be more and more important as we move further away. I thought Harry Patch was amazing, totally without sentimentality, totally clear as to the horror and waste of war. A great man.Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197429752310795554.post-76673906214557368682009-11-12T14:12:32.665+00:002009-11-12T14:12:32.665+00:00Oh, I think it is so important that the children t...Oh, I think it is so important that the children take part in these parades. We need to respect and reflect and I think we appreciate the need to that as we get older. It is hard to imagine the suffering people went - and go - through.maddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03479893496291590397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197429752310795554.post-44441177613713448952009-11-12T08:43:24.906+00:002009-11-12T08:43:24.906+00:00Beautful. You sent chills down my spine and had a...Beautful. You sent chills down my spine and had all the hairs on my arms standing on end. Seriously. <br /><br />I think as we get older and we start to understand our own mortality and that of those around us, our family, children, and friends, we begin to appreciate the horrors and dangers people put themselves through for us and our, for the most part, selfish way of life. Blessed with a good imagination though I am I don't think my imaginings can come close to what the reality of the war really was, the conditions, the sights, the fear, missery and retchedness these young boys must have gone through. So no, not just show business - just a smattering of the respect these brave people deserve from us.Not From Laplandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17165208811776097332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197429752310795554.post-56438441617904473252009-11-12T00:12:45.493+00:002009-11-12T00:12:45.493+00:00I am in Wales today - my house is next to the base...I am in Wales today - my house is next to the base of the Signals Regiment at Brawdy - in fact, we are the end of the old runway. 5 deaths so far in Afghanistan from the base, so remembrance is a VERY current thing here. <br /><br />My sense is that our respect for the day and its customs is growing more generally too - it's not just that we are getting older, but that we have perhaps woken up a bit in recent years. I know my workplace had a 2 minute silence today; that would not have happened even a few years ago. It seems a good thing.<br /><br />Spent the weekend up your way - did a post on it too - wonderful but cold.The bike shedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05195882998271591934noreply@blogger.com