This Remembrance Sunday, we pause to honour all those who served, on the front lines and the home front alike. Their courage, endurance, and quiet strength remind us what true resilience looks like. We will remember them. Lest We Forget.
C xxx
Lest We Forget
Hi Carolyn,
Have you heard a song A Pittance of Time by Terry Kelly, I believe he’s a Canadian. It is worth listening to.
I know here in Australia, there are larger numbers of people who commemorate Anzac Day than years ago, I think people are beginning to realise what our parents and grandparents sacrificed for us. May we never forget.
I used to live in Wiltshire in England, home to many WW1 Anzac graves. Anzac Day was observed and those graves beautifully tended. Not forgotten, even far from home.
Thank you Helen, that is lovely to know.
Hi Valerie, thanks for commenting. I haven’t heard that song so just went and listened to it, oh gosh that made me tear up! yes, we can’t really even begin to understand without having lived through it but we certainly can try and understand and appreciate their sacrifices. Thank you for sharing this xxx C
Remembrance feels more important than ever in such uncertain times. Lest We Forget.
Yes totally agree. Can’t even imagine what it must be like to live through war, the scenes we witness on TV today are heart breaking too C xxxx
The saddest and best ANZAC song (written by a Scot) I have heard since moving to NZ is called “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” about an Anzac who returns to Sydney on crutches and minus his legs from Gallipoli. The lyrics are so sad and so true and always leaves me in tears.
I agree, a very moving song, I cry at that and at another one Willie McBride (or The Green Fields of France) about a 19 year old WW1 soldier.
I love this song, it’s very moving xxx C
On May 11, 1942 the HMS Bedfordshire was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of North Carolina USA . All hands on board died. A few days later 4 dead British sailors washed onto the beach. The locals buried them together in their own very small cemetery. The local residents donated the land to Britain for “all perpetuity”, so that the sailors would be buried on British soil. To this day the local residents honor the sailors by caring for the cemetery. Lest we forget.
Oh my gosh, never realised that, what a wonderful tribute to such a tragedy xxxx C