David - you're entitled to those hugs. You said 'but I did nothing', but what happened to your Dad affected your whole family, so please take them - you, and everyone else who had family members giving their lives to fight for their country 100 years ago - with our love, gratitude, and eternal respect .
The thread that ties us to that war is getting more fragile with every passing year. What we tend to forget is that there's a choice today about joining the Forces. Not then.
It's impossible to imagine what that meant.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We usually eat at the Rutland Arms Hotel when we visit Bakewell and found the standard to be quite good. Apparently Jane Austin stayed there whilst writing 'Pride & Prejudice'......Pemberley being modelled on Chatsworth House of course.
Fairygirl, you are very kind & considerate, but the fact is I really didn't do anything.
Dad had returned from the war 20 years or so before I was born and never motioned his wartime experiences except to explain that the scars on his body were the result of being shot & being taken POW...as children we were left in no doubt about asking too many questions.
Having researched family history (both mine and OH's), we can, surprisingly, find no direct involvement of either family in WW1.
However, it is all very poignant, and heart-breaking to hear the testimony from those whose forebears took part and were killed. Oh, what a tragic waste war is. Would that the politicians would learn from history, rather than dooming us all in casual repetition.
I will light a candle tonight, and reflect on those millions who died. And the millions of families changed for ever as a result, either of those deaths or the injuries sustained.
Today I have been thinking about all the men and woman that have lost their lives, either as a direct result of war or just as a result of serving for our country and being in the wrong place at the wrong time, so often those people are forgotten. RIP to all xx
A Great grandfather I never met was in the Middlesex Regiment and did make it home. His two sons my great uncles both served in WW2, one was a Desert Rat and one in what became known as the SAS. Both made it home.
David - well done you for creating this thread.Let us never forget their sacrifice but also never forget the evils of war.Reading through the posts here,there is much that is moving and much I agree with.
My Grandfather was at The Somme.He died two years before I was born and only in recent years has my Dad been able to talk about the shell shock my Grandad suffered with.He survived the war physically but not mentally,he was in and out of psychiatric hospital for the rest of his life.
Perhaps the greatest tragedy was that the war to end all wars led to the second world war.
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David - you're entitled to those hugs. You said 'but I did nothing', but what happened to your Dad affected your whole family, so please take them - you, and everyone else who had family members giving their lives to fight for their country 100 years ago - with our love, gratitude, and eternal respect .
The thread that ties us to that war is getting more fragile with every passing year. What we tend to forget is that there's a choice today about joining the Forces. Not then.
It's impossible to imagine what that meant.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Must have been a terrible shock for you, Pansy.
We usually eat at the Rutland Arms Hotel when we visit Bakewell and found the standard to be quite good. Apparently Jane Austin stayed there whilst writing 'Pride & Prejudice'......Pemberley being modelled on Chatsworth House of course.
i will light a candle at ten and put the lights out . grandad enlisted 1919 when he was 17 and served till 1946
Fairygirl, you are very kind & considerate, but the fact is I really didn't do anything.
Dad had returned from the war 20 years or so before I was born and never motioned his wartime experiences except to explain that the scars on his body were the result of being shot & being taken POW...as children we were left in no doubt about asking too many questions.
Having researched family history (both mine and OH's), we can, surprisingly, find no direct involvement of either family in WW1.
However, it is all very poignant, and heart-breaking to hear the testimony from those whose forebears took part and were killed. Oh, what a tragic waste war is. Would that the politicians would learn from history, rather than dooming us all in casual repetition.
I will light a candle tonight, and reflect on those millions who died. And the millions of families changed for ever as a result, either of those deaths or the injuries sustained.
Today I have been thinking about all the men and woman that have lost their lives, either as a direct result of war or just as a result of serving for our country and being in the wrong place at the wrong time, so often those people are forgotten. RIP to all xx
A Great grandfather I never met was in the Middlesex Regiment and did make it home. His two sons my great uncles both served in WW2, one was a Desert Rat and one in what became known as the SAS. Both made it home.
Good thread.
David - well done you for creating this thread.Let us never forget their sacrifice but also never forget the evils of war.Reading through the posts here,there is much that is moving and much I agree with.
My Grandfather was at The Somme.He died two years before I was born and only in recent years has my Dad been able to talk about the shell shock my Grandad suffered with.He survived the war physically but not mentally,he was in and out of psychiatric hospital for the rest of his life.
Perhaps the greatest tragedy was that the war to end all wars led to the second world war.
Just turned the lights out as requested. Been outside and about 60% of our street seem to have done the same.
Great gesture .
Just turned our lights out too.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.