Remembrance Sunday - 11 November 2012

[fozzybear210 10]

I think it would be best to get there a bit early and get to the front.

[pottedplant 10]

Thanks guys. I'll be there at 10:30ish, shoes polished and medals gleaming. Hope it's a good attendance and I'll see you there

 

and we will be there waiting for you to march on.

[web1 10]

Glad to see an insensitive post removed on a sensitive subject.

I won't be there but will be observing the proper respects at all times throughout this period.

I find it saddening the lack of respect we as individuals show each other considering the price paid by true heroes for our freedom.

God bless them all.

[Dick 10]

Just heard on Radio Sheffield that Division St is closed due to a police incident.

The parade is rerouted from West St.

[curleyburley 10]

hi myself and husband went to barkers pool today fantastic turnout baffled no cannon went off:(

[joinerisme 10]

I look forward to the cannon being fired,it was a good turnout though.

[curleyburley 10]

why didnt it go off fab atmosphere

[scousemouse 10]

I watched on the tv, through many tears, as I always do. They read out the letter a young soldier had written to his family (as they have to before going on deployment) my God I just lost it. I am the same every year, and the older I get the more emotional I am. Powerful stuff.

[rosemary19 10]

I watched on the tv, through many tears, as I always do. They read out the letter a young soldier had written to his family (as they have to before going on deployment) my God I just lost it. I am the same every year, and the older I get the more emotional I am. Powerful stuff.

"Powerful stuff" it was, and such a fitting tribute to those who sacrificed their lives for us.That letter was so poignant!

I also watched the Festival of Remembrance Concert,it was so moving.

[wornout53 10]

I watched the Royal British Legion festival of remembrance and the service from the Cenotaph in Whitehall. I used to watch both with my dad but now it is my grandson who watched it with me. He was as good as gold through both but full of questions and I hope he has gained a sense of what it is all about.

It gave me a chance to explain to him just how much we have to be thankful for both as a family and as a nation. He told me he had always thought it was all about 'old men' so he was shocked to realise that the ones we honour never lived to be old but died in the prime of their youth.

[blackfoot 10]

Fantastic atmosphere and fantastic turn out but very very cold.

 

My mates Son was marching with the army cadets so a very proud time all round

[Jane123 10]

I watched on the tv, through many tears, as I always do. They read out the letter a young soldier had written to his family (as they have to before going on deployment) my God I just lost it. I am the same every year, and the older I get the more emotional I am. Powerful stuff.

 

I was exactly the same - the letter to his family made me weep