At 11am on the 11th November 1918 hostilities ceased and the first world war ended.
On that day ever since we have remembered the fallen from both the wars. All round the country people will stop work for 2 minuets and stand in silence
The cross of Victory seen at so many Commonwealth War Cemetery's
The Canadian Memorial At Brookwood Commonwealth War Cemetery
Cross's at Wallingford War Memorial
We Will Remember Them
20 comments:
Good thing you remember.
With us is connected with the 11:11. at 11.11am only the beginning of the carnival season. I'm not a fan of it -
Everyone is remembered, there are no winners in war only loosers.
oui se souvenir.
Merci de ta visite et de tes gentils commentaires sur mes pages, Merci, bonne journée!
Cath.
Hi Bill...
i didn´t know anything about it ... so it´s too late to stop the work :)
Nice photos !
Best regards
When my daughter was younger I was her Girl Scout leader. I used to take my Girl Scout troop to march in a local parade every Veteran's Day. I'm hoping that the girls took away the fact that Veteran's Day is to honor the people who served our country and not just another holiday from school.
No doubt where you live you have a different way of remembering. We missed the time as no one told us over the tannoy system and we were working along the tunnel today.
The scouts and guilds do this on Remeberance Sunday, the 11th is not a holiday in the UK so people just tend to observe the tow minuets silence where they are at work. It is only in recent years this has been done and always seems odd at 11 you see people standing in silence
Merci Cath pour ces aimables paroles
Even the busses in the city stop for 2 minutes here. This is a wonderful post, Bill.
Cool Not sure if they do the same here
An excellent post for today
Hari OM
..."at the rising and at the going down of the sun, we shall remember them..."
YAMxx
Thank you
Lest We Forget
Did you know that was the middle verse of an ode
Very hard to walking round that place
This was a great and interesting post...
Thank you very much Birgitta
May we never forget.
I don't think any of us will
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