Poppies and rememberance

Personally having attended the Menin Gate ceremony in Ypres in Belgium I like what they do. Everyone who takes part in the march to the Menin Gate is given a handful of paper poppies which are then collected as you pass under the Menin Gate. At the end of the ceremony all the paper poppies are released from the top of the Menin Gate and flutter down as a see of red. This symbolises the loss of so so many young lives that once marched up the road through the Menin Gate to the trenches and were lost. It is quite a moving tribute. There are over 54,000 names of British and Commonwealth soldiers who have no known grave.

That is why we remember on the 11th of November. The day the guns fell silent on the western front and stopped the slaughter of a generation.

My great grandfather was gassed at Ypres and was invalided out of the army in 1915.

The act of remembrance was supposed to ensure that the first world war was the war to stop all wars. That didn't work out very well once the the donkeys and politicians got involved that allowed the rise of Hitler and the rest we say is history.

I have been there too, one of my family members is on the wall. I would blow it up too, its a tourist attraction. I would repatriate all the bodies of British men murdered in the war too. 

I have been there too, one of my family members is on the wall. I would blow it up too, its a tourist attraction. I would repatriate all the bodies of British men murdered in the war too.