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  1. 12th November 2016, 08:12 PM #1
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    Lest We Forget

    I am a day late with this thread due to not having internet, because of my job.

    I always do my best to either be in front of the telly or earshot of the wireless around 10.50 am on the 11th day of November for rememberence.

    Yesterday, I was in a truck on Sydneys M7 and around 10.55 I was looking for one of the truck parking bays they have along there to stop and observe one minutes silence.

    Unfortunately the first available one came halfway through the one minutes silence, so I kept going, listening to the wireless and having my thoughts whilst driving.

    As I usually do at this time, I did get a bit emotional, thinking of all the young lives lost and the the hell that the ones that survived went through,
    fighting for our freedom.

    I had just finished drying my eyes when a caller comes on the wireless (Richard Hadley show for those Sydney people) telling us about his son that learnt the trumpet from a young age.

    He had the privilege of playing the last post for his 600 odd class mates at a Bathurst school.

    Three quarters through the dad telling us this, he started to choke up, which then again got me emotional, having to dry my eyes a second time.

    Lest We Forget.
    Dave.

    I was asked " Is it ignorance or apathy?" I replied "I don't know and I don't care."


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  2. 12th November 2016, 08:46 PM #2
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    Respect.
    This is how it should be Dave. Not sure if the link will work or not, but I guess it can be copied and pasted anyway.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmmvnsSeH_8
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  3. 12th November 2016, 09:35 PM #3
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    Link worked. I would have loved to see that happen on freeways in Australia.
    Dave.

    I was asked " Is it ignorance or apathy?" I replied "I don't know and I don't care."


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    I was standing in the middle of a 200 seat Call centre at 11am.... it was really nice to hear the place go totally silent for the full minute...

    This is one of my favourite images that seems to surface around this time of year..



    Thanks for the thread Dave...
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  5. 13th November 2016, 06:10 AM #5
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    Bytemrk,..Never seen that before....That is just so good, I can't describe it.
    Thank You, Pickles.
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    I kind of hate Remembrance Day & ANZAC Day.

    Because they make me so Emotional.

    War Stinks!!

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  7. 13th November 2016, 02:33 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by d2dave View Post
    Link worked. I would have loved to see that happen on freeways in Australia.
    In Australia we would have complete chaos if people started to stop. All those on their phone checking Facebook would end up crashing.
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    I'm a member of the local RSL sub branch, but unfortunately, due to illness, I couldn't get to the service. So, I had a private quiet time at 11am.
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    I parked up for 30 minutes and played this album ''War Stories - Darren Coggan'' One of my favourite tracks from the album

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv6n7L9NxHQ

    This is a nice tribute also


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEBkwf5_haY
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    The Wars did not end.

    https://youtu.be/1dGuiWGHFsI

    https://youtu.be/Jh5HyFitXJg

    https://youtu.be/rLJTMrtoYdo

    And if you meet a young veteran, perhaps you should think about this.

    https://youtu.be/G8gbSvIOx10
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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