|
 | 
02-11-2007, 09:42 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Scunthorpe, Nth Lincs
Posts: 1,382
| | | Lest We Forget
This gets me everytime.......
Lest We Forget A Pittance of Time On November 11, 1999 Terry Kelly was in a Shoppers Drug Mart store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. At 10:55 AM an announcement came over the store’s PA asking customers who would still be on the premises at 11:00 AM to give two minutes of silence in respect to the veterans who have sacrificed so much for us. This song is based on what happened in the drug store that day.
__________________ Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Nature Photo's |
02-11-2007, 12:06 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cumbria
Posts: 482
| | | Re: Lest We Forget
Hi Tormentil
I've never heard that song before but it certainly makes you think.
I can't remember the amount of times I've been out and about when the 2 minutes silence is being held and people just bustle passed , talking and laughing and I always wonder why it doesn't occur to them why everyone else is standing quiet and still. 
Anyway, thanks for sharing it with us it's very moving and so poignant especially at this time .
Suzanne 
Last edited by Monkster; 02-11-2007 at 12:16 PM.
|
02-11-2007, 12:31 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: exmouth devon uk
Posts: 5,143
| | | Re: Lest We Forget
What a beautiful song and so fitting.It was so moving I am glad I saw it
__________________ :) A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked:D www.cherrybees.co.uk |
02-11-2007, 02:05 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: West Oxfordshire.
Posts: 817
| | | Re: Lest We Forget
Wow, I have just listened and watched the video and had goose bumps on my arms and cold shivers all over. How very very moving. Made even more moving when my black lab Piper sat down beside me and placed her head on my lap. Shivers again.
Thank you Tormentil for posting.
I will not even start to type about my disgust at people who ignore the 2 minutes silence on the 11 November and again on Remembrance Sunday.
BWD, Royal Air Force, and proud of it.
__________________
sdrawkcab backwards is backwards |
02-11-2007, 02:11 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Scunthorpe, Nth Lincs
Posts: 1,382
| | | Re: Lest We Forget
Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Wobble Dagger  I will not even start to type about my disgust at people who ignore the 2 minutes silence on the 11 November and again on Remembrance Sunday.
BWD, Royal Air Force, and proud of it. | I have no issue with anyone who ignores the 2 min silence, thats freedom of choice.
It is a stirring bit of music though init. I too get goose bumps, especially at the bit where the vets come on.
Ben, ex Royal Corps of Signals.
__________________ Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Nature Photo's |
02-11-2007, 02:27 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Hidden in the clover
Posts: 1,558
| | | Re: Lest We Forget
Wonderful Tormentil. Thankyou.
Thats all I can say.
Doug |
02-11-2007, 10:11 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Oxfordshire
Posts: 1,379
| | | Re: Lest We Forget
I dont have an issue either with folk who ignore it, as you say its a free country and some choose to remember in their own way.
Paul (ex Royal Navy)
__________________
Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find. |
02-11-2007, 10:25 PM
|  | Active Member | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ripley Derbyshire
Posts: 73
| | | Re: Lest We Forget
Thank you for that Tormentil very moving what more can I say
Martin
__________________
Dogs have masters.
Cats have staff |
02-11-2007, 11:27 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
Posts: 11,463
| | | Re: Lest We Forget
Quote:
Originally Posted by G0NYM Thank you for that Tormentil very moving what more can I say
Martin | Same here. Very moving. |
03-11-2007, 02:38 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 262
| | | Re: Lest We Forget
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tormentil I have no issue with anyone who ignores the 2 min silence, thats freedom of choice.
| But surely that's the whole point. Freedom of choice exists in this country because of the people who made the ultimate sacrifice. Two minutes out of a year is not too much to ask, is it?
HW |
03-11-2007, 07:27 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Nairn,Nairnshire,Scotland
Posts: 1,587
| | | Re: Lest We Forget
As an ex service man and from a generation who was brought up with Nov11 and everything it stands for I agree in some way as to how it can annoy some people as to the sentiment of some people who do not observe the 2 mins silence ,but we live in a free and democratic society which is what the service personnel gave their lives for and people are allowed to do as they please,but a little respect and 2 mins of anyones time does not cost anything compared to what has happened and is still going on today | | |
| Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | |
| | | 16 members and 2,934 guests | | bigwig, coasty, cybershot, Dillibags, djeyewater, Gill Catton, GuyF, Mercadante, owlmomma, Paul mabbott, SilverW0lf, tigger, Tursiops2, village wench, whis4ey | | Most users ever online was 3,001, 22-07-2008 at 07:45 PM. |  » WAB Development Posts | |
No Threads to Display.
| » New Wildlife Posts | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | » New Environment Posts | | | | | | | | | » New Community Posts | | | | | | | | | » New Activity Posts | | | | | | | | | |
