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Title: Remembrance Day 'very emotional' for aging veteran of Second World War
Category: Military
Posted By: shockedcanadian
Date: 2016-11-10 21:13:50
Canadian

[shockedcanadian]

Bottom line, buy a poppy or three, and don't ever stand down for what men like him risked their lives for, and for which many who fought beside him died for.

[martin14]

[2Cdo]

Remembering too many friends who made the ultimate sacrifice.

[martin14]

[BRAH]

Lest We Forget, Never Forget, Rememberance Day, Veterans Day.

[2Cdo]

Nice ceremony in London today with a pretty good crowd.

[martin14]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rever.html

Tragedy of the lost generation: Map shows the towns and cities where WWI wiped out tens of thousands of people - including whole circles of friends - as Britain was left scarred forever

About 700,000 British soldiers lost their lives in WWI and level of loss was higher in some areas than others
Newly released research shows that some British towns and cities lost nearly one in ten residents
Some smaller northern England and Scottish towns saw entire generations completely wiped out
Durham, in the north east, was worst hit with 6,300 men lost - nearly eight per cent of the total population

[maldonsfecht]

wonderful turnout in little Truro, N.S. ... acting company commander, got to march our Highlanders past some very appreciative folks in the presence of many veterans, of old wars and new.

a privilege to command these soldiers

[martin14]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... d-War.html

Funny, poignant and defiant: On Remembrance weekend, one Tommy's extraordinary postcards from the trenches of the First World War

They were drawn by Private Fergus Mackain, an advertising artist who enlisted in 1915 and served in France
After being wounded in the Somme and taken out of front-line duty in 1917, he began producing postcards
They have now been collected together and published in a book ahead of Remembrance Sunday