I know the 11th of the 11th is past for this year, but it would be great to draw together the beautiful shots and words of 365ers honouring the brave, so as to make them available to the vets who are still living. I hope this will extend beyond national territories to all those who have fought. Either post one you have seen and liked, add your own, or produce your own and add that, or do both. Please copy and paste the relevant words here too.
Here's a BBC mape about Britain's war losses: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11743727
Also http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11733602
I have also seen the War Photographer Don McCullen Exhibition 14th Nov - very moving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVZe4rQKcls
I want to start with the very moving image and words of Stephen Smiley:
VETERANS' DAY
Something that I am thankful for: veterans. This veteran is my grandfather. The little guy is my father, who was born while my grandfather was fighting in the European Theater during WWII. I'll never forget visiting him before I was sent to Italy back in the 90s. He started crying while I was talking with him. I went to help enforce a no-fly zone in a neighboring country. I guess all he could think of was his own expirience there. He was in Italy fighting 50 years earlier, during a time I can hardly understand. I started crying, and all I could say was that because of him and his generation, the world was drastically different.
If you get the chance, please thank a veteran for their service. Even if you don't agree with the politics of your country, the people that serve your country should be treasured.
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We shall remember them.
Today is Remembrance Day in the UK, a day to remember and salute those who have been maimed or lost their life in war. It was very much about our own war dead when I was a child, though these days we think of all those who have died in wars.
This image is in memory of my Uncle Ralph. He was in his thirties and had been a top cricketer in India before the war. It was after the war when he was still in Burma that a Japanese sniper (who probably didn't know the war was over), got him.
I am going to send an idea to the Royal British Legion, that people put up a poppy image with a story of someone lost in war - designing it especially to engage young people.
@andycoleborn Yes, this picture is beautiful Andy, but your other pic is also STUNNING. Nearly broke the rule and went and slotted it in here, but should leave that for someone else, having already put in my tuppence worth. So hope they do. It is gorgeous and so redolent of what it represents.
Ever since living in Europe and seeing first hand the cemetaries, cenotaphs, statues, memorials, and the lingering aftermath of two world wars, Remembrance Day has a new meaning. I'm the daughter and the wife of Canadian military men. Proud and lucky to be. It's not one day of remembrance for me, it's every day. It's not just one day of support the troops, its every day. Politics and borders aside, I think about every solder in every war, and the families left behind to wait and worry.Copied from my daughter's page.
Thanks Miranda, I not sure if I understand the whole process to post pic. I cut and paste it in the share box, just didn't know what to do after that. Please explain, so I'll know in the future. Thanks again for posting it here. :-)
http://365project.org/elizabeth/365/2010-11-11 (don't know how to add the picture here)
The owner of these medals was not lost in the Second World War - he came home. However, his son-in-law was killed in Northern Ireland during "The Troubles".
The owner of these medals was not lost in the Second World War - he came home. However, his son-in-law was killed in Northern Ireland during "The Troubles".
I post these "before and after" pix of my brother to honor his service and to show the toll wartime service can take on servicemen and women. May God bless all who find themselves (military and civilian) in a warzone ... especially the children. The only specific thing my brother ever told me about his war time deployment was that he saw a child who was obviously starving sitting by the side of the road. The child was slowly eating a bush and moving in a lethargic manner brought on by starvation and war. That was a memory that stuck with him and that he felt comfortable enough to share with me. I believe he was haunted by seeing an innocent child suffering. I'll never know the many other visions that continue to haunt him.
Least we forget.
Too many sons, daughters, father's , mothers, brothers and sisters have lost their lives. Fighting to protect against greed, fighting for freedom, and fighting to protect.
Let us not forget the pain, horror, and sorrow of war, all because some people think they are better than the person standing beside them
I wear this with pride. I have it with me all the time. A pin brooch which I bought from the Royal British Legion Poppy shop. It's such a simple thing, but it carries so much meaning with it, such memory, such emotion and such gratitude.
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At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We shall remember them.
Today is Remembrance Day in the UK, a day to remember and salute those who have been maimed or lost their life in war. It was very much about our own war dead when I was a child, though these days we think of all those who have died in wars.
This image is in memory of my Uncle Ralph. He was in his thirties and had been a top cricketer in India before the war. It was after the war when he was still in Burma that a Japanese sniper (who probably didn't know the war was over), got him.
I am going to send an idea to the Royal British Legion, that people put up a poppy image with a story of someone lost in war - designing it especially to engage young people.
Ever since living in Europe and seeing first hand the cemetaries, cenotaphs, statues, memorials, and the lingering aftermath of two world wars, Remembrance Day has a new meaning. I'm the daughter and the wife of Canadian military men. Proud and lucky to be. It's not one day of remembrance for me, it's every day. It's not just one day of support the troops, its every day. Politics and borders aside, I think about every solder in every war, and the families left behind to wait and worry.Copied from my daughter's page.
VETERANS
Many thanks and blessings to all our veterans.
The owner of these medals was not lost in the Second World War - he came home. However, his son-in-law was killed in Northern Ireland during "The Troubles".
The owner of these medals was not lost in the Second World War - he came home. However, his son-in-law was killed in Northern Ireland during "The Troubles".
Big thank you for taking an interest and posting some excellent and varied shots.
Least we forget.
Too many sons, daughters, father's , mothers, brothers and sisters have lost their lives. Fighting to protect against greed, fighting for freedom, and fighting to protect.
Let us not forget the pain, horror, and sorrow of war, all because some people think they are better than the person standing beside them
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