Two Minute Silence at 11am

[Pubey]

Please, no posts at 11.00 - 11.02, wherever you are please respect a two minutes silence for Armistice Day and remember those who gave their lives so we may enjoy the freedom we have today. If you are at work then encourage your office to do the same


We will remember them.

 

[TrueBlue]

Respect it or my henchmen will deck ya!

 

[BrettieAngell]

Aye, RIP all those that gave their lives.

 

[TrueBlue]

HENRY ALLINGHAM I love you sir!

 

[pickledseal]

All I can say in a thank you from the depth of my heart, I appreciate being free, RIP.

 

[Southend_Lady]

Good thread Pubester.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Just been round my team to tell them to take all their phones off the hook for a few minutes.

Although knowing my lot, they will probably keep them off the hook for the rest of the day....

 

[TrueBlue]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7721550.stm

 

[TrueBlue]

Well observed all you made me and done yourselfs proud

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

My workplace just observed the silence, Good to see the 'Zone observing it too.

RIP.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Out of the 3 survivors from the 1st WW HENRY ALLINGHAM is insisting on laying his own Reef.

 

[Ricey]

Great coverage by SSN, it is great when channels do that and show thier marks of respect.

RIP our thoughts are with you forever.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Out of the 3 survivors from the 1st WW HENRY ALLINGHAM is insisting on laying his own Reef.

Bless him! He was determined to stand to lay the wreath, our last volunteer from WW1. Thought it was a good move to have Harry Patch escorted by that young VC winner, Johnson Beharry. Very moving service, as always.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

OMG......as Big Ben chimed, the Sun went in, it started chucking it down with rain, then hail stones and now snow.....very spoky indeed.

 

[seany t]

Some people eh... two people here refused to acknowledge it and talked / whistled for its duration. Dicks...

My family have some amazing and eerily similar stories about the wars. Both my sets of grandparents were involved in jobs that required them to remain in the UK during the forties, one as a farmer in Rochford, the other as a fisherman based at Leigh.

My Nan was walking towards a well to get some water for the farm as a teenager when all of a sudden a bomber flew overhead. For some unknown reason, it seemed to decide to drop some of its payload and my Nan realised she had nowhere to run. Amazingly, the bomb flew straight down the Well shaft next to her and detonated at the bottom, meaning she escaped almost certain death. Which reminds me its her birthday tomorrow...

My great Granddad was even more fortunate. He was out at sea on a fishing boat as part of a convoy when a German plane again flew overhead and dropped a bomb in his general direction. At that moment he fell to his knees and prayed, and watched as the bomb hit the water a few yards from his trawler, bounced up and onto his deck making a mighty smash about 10 feet from him, carried onwards over the side bouncing again twice more in the water before causing an almighty explosion and getting him very wet.

My family on my Dad's side and my Nan have been devoutly religious ever since. And in turn given me a couple of cracking stories to bore people with (though they never believe me due to my tendency to exaggerate).

 

[shrimperman]

Bless him! He was determined to stand to lay the wreath, our last volunteer from WW1. Thought it was a good move to have Harry Patch escorted by that young VC winner, Johnson Beharry. Very moving service, as always.

Which reminds me, for anyone looking for a new book to read, Beharry's story is excellent and a great biog.

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

Please, no posts at 11.00 - 11.02, wherever you are please respect a two minutes silence for Armistice Day and remember those who gave their lives so we may enjoy the freedom we have today. If you are at work then encourage your office to do the same


We will remember them.[/quote

did the minutes silence at the war memorial in our local village,marie gives a speech the class from the local school read a poem the kids then lay flowers followed by the firemen and the marie then we all go to the salle de fetes for wine and nibbles.
Lovely way to remeber,plus its a public holiday today,funny thing is that here in france not a poopy insight anywhere.