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Subject: Re: [OM] Poppies
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:18:28 +0200
If you need a reason to shed a few more tears, hang around until 8pm
when the local Ypres fire brigade sound The Last Post at the Menin
gate (yes, every day, for the last 80-odd years).
Jez



On 22/06/2012, JOHN DUGGAN <john.duggan10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A few years ago I was involved in supervising a school trip to the First
> World War battlefields in France and Belgium. As well as visiting the Somme
> (and the Welsh Memorial at Mametz Wood) we visited the Canadian gas Memorial
> and a number of the main battlefields during a week long trip. One abiding
> memory is of the Devonshire cemetery at Mametz Wood. At the start of the
> battle for Mametz Wood the Devonshire Regiment emerged from their front line
> trench only to be mown down by machine gun fire. 163 men were buried in the
> trench from which they had emerged, with the inscription "The Devonshires
> Held This Trench, They Hold It Now.
> The trip ended in Belgium on Sunday 11/11.
> Two of our pupils - one with special needs - were selected to lay a school
> wreath of poppies at the ceremony taking place at the Menin Gate. This is a
> huge covered archway inscribed with the names of over 60,000 British and
> Commonwealth troops who have no known grave. I have been to this memorial
> before, but nothing could prepare you for the raw emotion of this event. To
> say that the air was "electric" does not do it justice. The hair on the back
> of your neck started to rise, and it was just like the moment before the
> lightning strike. There were many tears shed that day.
>
> It really brought home the sacrifice made by previous generations, many of
> whom were not much older than the pupils themselves , and graphically
> illustrated the respect still shown today by the local population.It was a
> humbling experience, I will visit again.
>
> Regards
> John Duggan,
> Wales, UK
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 June 2012, 20:45
> Subject: Re: [OM] Poppies
>
> Nope.  Memorial Day  http://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Bob Whitmire
> <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Memorial Day? I could have sworn it was always on Armistice Day, now
>> Veterans Day. Good to know someone's still doing it.
>>
>> --Bob
>>
>>
>> On Jun 20, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>>
>> > Yes, the American Legion still hands them out on Memorial Day here in
>> South
>> > Carolina.
>>
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