Remembrance Day - an old item to share with readers

[cmsally]

I thought this might interest some of the members on here and it seemed appropriate timing. This is the front page of The Telegraph, 4 September 1939. Outbreak of the Second World War.

This is the actual newspaper which someone in my family must have put away. Makes it all seem quite real when you handle the actual newspaper and read it!

Sorry don't know if I can make the image any bigger and successfully upload; if its not large enough I will try again.

[CMKiwi]

And I hope we never forget the sacrifices made so that we can live as we do. Things could have been a lot different. Although the world's not perfect, its all we got at the moment. Im enjoying too.

[trainman34014]

Thanks for sharing. I've got a few old wartime papers too from family archives and they do make very interesting reading.

Must say it annoys me these days that a lot of under 30's don't seem the least bit interested in what their family members did back in either war and many don't have a clue about the sacrifices made at those times.

Nobody wants anyone to live in the past but ample respect should be shown by everyone who reaps the benefits of the freedoms won in those dark days.

[eyecatcher]

And what did the world learn about

WW1.....it settled few scores but opened up more

WW2.....It settled few scores but opened up more

Iraq......It settled few scores but opened

Vietnam.....It settled few scores but

Afghanistan.....It settled few scores

The crimean, the Boar ,the US, Franco ,Prussian....you name it and the wars settled few scores but.........

Having said that "lest we forget"

[millwall_fan]

Good to be reminded of it Sally! Lest we forget. A major date of change in world history: Britain, Australia, Canada and NZ stood together in solidarity. The French, of course caved in pretty quickly and the Americans finally turned up, when was it? 1942? Better late than never, I suppose!

[Burl Ives]

Watched the BBC British Legion Remembrance programme at the RAH, with tears in my eye but quaked when Jeff Beck and Joss Stone massacred the beautiful Eric Bogle song "Willie

McBride" or "No Mans land" how could they destroy such a poingant song. Unbelievably it's the official Poppy Appeal song.

Looks like I'm not the only one who disapproves:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/joss-stone-criticised-over-sentimentalising-famed-antiwar-song-for-poppy-appeal-9847312.html

[DogNo1]

Well, a lot men and women under 30 are now making their own sacrifices on the battlefield whose condition is worse than I remember it to have been in Vietnam. I salute them! Our future is in their hands. Our rendezvous with destiny is past.

[elektrified]

Thanks for sharing. I'm a huge history buff and love reading history.

[onthedarkside]

Inappropriate video removed.

[siampolee]

The link below may well be interesting to some of us, however it is a U.K series of pics, hence there may be a lack of coverage for those of you from the colonies

I was an Andrew man 1960

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatpicturegalleries

[Jack Mountain]

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/10/reclaim-armistice-day-and-honor-the-real-heroes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reclaim-armistice-day-and-honor-the-real-heroes

[Elmer Gantry]

The link below may well be interesting to some of us, however it is a U.K series of pics, hence there may be a lack of coverage for those of you from the colonies

I was an Andrew man 1960

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatpicturegalleries

Bet you were a Crusher.

[siampolee]

No sorry I wasn't.

Did you get put in the brig?

I might have tried you if that was the case.

Edited November 13, 2014 by siampolee

[Elmer Gantry]

No sorry I wasn't.

Did you get put in the brig?

I might have tried you if that was the case.

Wow didn't realise you were that old,did you serve with Nelson.It was DQ's in my day.Fortunately I never got sussed,would have hated to have you as a DO,LOL.You sound like a Ganges boy.

[Ozziepat]

About the war supposed to end all wars from 11/11/2011:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

-- Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.

[Elmer Gantry]

No sorry I wasn't.

Did you get put in the brig?

I might have tried you if that was the case.

That might have been me,what was the rig of the day,not tropical routine so no LOA.

Edited November 14, 2014 by Elmer Gantry