Love Wilfred Owen.....politicians are hypocrical cants on every subject mate but I still think Remembrance Sunday always required but it doesn't need the erse dragged out it for weeks even allowing for an anniversary. Recently the whole Heroes accolade for anyone in the Army is a bit vomit inducing but just symptomatic of the world we live in....everything OTT. Remember the dead for absolutely sure but learn the lessons more to avoid similar but not sure we have

What's annoying is it should be the eleventh hour of the eleventh month on the eleventh day.

It's that time for a reason. When I was growing up you always made the effort at that time. No matter what.

No need for any other time. Typical modern life that can't respect the dead.

Studied Owen and Sasson at Belfast High School and English Lit and poetry in general were some of the few things I enjoyed there.

Sure many wars are fultile, but I just respect the dead and injured.

Very often lions led by donkeys!

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Well done to Brendan not toeing the party line and wearing a big Fack off poppy

comment by Laudrup: Alfie Mo? (U12366)
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Stand up for the Ulsterman👍

It's Armistice Day. to embrace all...not Armistice minute to suit some .

comment by Laudrup: Alfie Mo? (U12366)
posted 12 minutes ago
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So this is plan b is it.

Don't think I've ever seen such disrespect for the fallen and what they stood for as I've seen from you in the past couple of days. You should be ashamed.

comment by timmy (U14278)
posted 40 minutes ago
What's annoying is it should be the eleventh hour of the eleventh month on the eleventh day.

It's that time for a reason. When I was growing up you always made the effort at that time. No matter what.

No need for any other time. Typical modern life that can't respect the dead.
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This isn't a subject for your pash either. Give it a miss next year and do yourself a favour.

Know why there is so much much coverage this year of WW1 this year?
Yes it's the 100 anniversary of the ending of WW1 but in 2014, at the time of the Scottish Independence Referendum, a series of grants were announced to commemorate both the start and the end of World War 1. The most awful, unnecessary war in history surely?

Three near-identical cousins, Willy, Georgie, and Nicky, (Kaiser, King and Czar) went to war with each other to defend/extend their Empires. At the end of it there was approx 40 million dead/wounded as a result of their 'family' fall out.

40 feckin Million.

The grants finish in 2019.

Maybe then the poor fecckin conscripts, from both sides, will be allowed to rest in peace.

It's the fakeness that bothers me, seems to me that a large portion of the people making a big show and dance about wearing a poppy barely have any interest in understanding what it must have been like to live through that war, many seem more interested in being faux offended at people who choose not to wear a poppy.

Every year it more and more resembles a gaudy celebration rather than a commemoration.

I would personally prefer if all the activities and round the clock coverage was kept to the weekend of so as not to water down the true meaning of Armistice day.

comment by Magnum (U16400)
posted 28 minutes ago
comment by Laudrup: Alfie Mo? (U12366)
posted 12 minutes ago
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So this is plan b is it.

Don't think I've ever seen such disrespect for the fallen and what they stood for as I've seen from you in the past couple of days. You should be ashamed.
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This

Lowest of the low.

comment by Sjb1888 (U5188)
posted 11 minutes ago
It's the fakeness that bothers me, seems to me that a large portion of the people making a big show and dance about wearing a poppy barely have any interest in understanding what it must have been like to live through that war, many seem more interested in being faux offended at people who choose not to wear a poppy.

Every year it more and more resembles a gaudy celebration rather than a commemoration.

I would personally prefer if all the activities and round the clock coverage was kept to the weekend of so as not to water down the true meaning of Armistice day.
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A lot of your own perception in that

I don’t know anyone who wears a poppy out of anything other than respectful remembrance

As said above millions of lives lost I think a couple of weeks of coverage and respect isn’t a lot to ask

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comment by Zachsda(FFS Da, put it back) (U1850)
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posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Sjb1888 (U5188)
posted 11 minutes ago
It's the fakeness that bothers me, seems to me that a large portion of the people making a big show and dance about wearing a poppy barely have any interest in understanding what it must have been like to live through that war, many seem more interested in being faux offended at people who choose not to wear a poppy.

Every year it more and more resembles a gaudy celebration rather than a commemoration.

I would personally prefer if all the activities and round the clock coverage was kept to the weekend of so as not to water down the true meaning of Armistice day.
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A lot of your own perception in that

I don’t know anyone who wears a poppy out of anything other than respectful remembrance

As said above millions of lives lost I think a couple of weeks of coverage and respect isn’t a lot to ask
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If the celebration of a Pagan festival can drag on for months, aye Xmas
Surely remembering millions who died in acts of madness they couldn’t control can be remembered over a week or so
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I'm not having a pop at anyone.

A young 19 year-old William McBride of the Royal Inniskilling Fuseliers (the spelling is on his gravestone) was commemorated by Eric Bogle and this is the Furies version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDyip7SIJkQ

That, to my mind, is the song that should be played on Remembrance Sunday. Brave young men mown down like cattle - for what???

Anybody trying to point score from this can seriously GTF.

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comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Sjb1888 (U5188)
posted 11 minutes ago
It's the fakeness that bothers me, seems to me that a large portion of the people making a big show and dance about wearing a poppy barely have any interest in understanding what it must have been like to live through that war, many seem more interested in being faux offended at people who choose not to wear a poppy.

Every year it more and more resembles a gaudy celebration rather than a commemoration.

I would personally prefer if all the activities and round the clock coverage was kept to the weekend of so as not to water down the true meaning of Armistice day.
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A lot of your own perception in that

I don’t know anyone who wears a poppy out of anything other than respectful remembrance

As said above millions of lives lost I think a couple of weeks of coverage and respect isn’t a lot to ask
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I'm very perceptive, I don't think a couple of weeks of build up achieves anything to be honest, other than watering down the actual actual anniversary.

comment by Zachsda(FFS Da, put it back) (U1850)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Sjb1888 (U5188)
posted 11 minutes ago
It's the fakeness that bothers me, seems to me that a large portion of the people making a big show and dance about wearing a poppy barely have any interest in understanding what it must have been like to live through that war, many seem more interested in being faux offended at people who choose not to wear a poppy.

Every year it more and more resembles a gaudy celebration rather than a commemoration.

I would personally prefer if all the activities and round the clock coverage was kept to the weekend of so as not to water down the true meaning of Armistice day.
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A lot of your own perception in that

I don’t know anyone who wears a poppy out of anything other than respectful remembrance

As said above millions of lives lost I think a couple of weeks of coverage and respect isn’t a lot to ask
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If the celebration of a Pagan festival can drag on for months, aye Xmas
Surely remembering millions who died in acts of madness they couldn’t control can be remembered over a week or so
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Yeah, i'm not a fan of that either.

comment by Sjb1888 (U5188)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Sjb1888 (U5188)
posted 11 minutes ago
It's the fakeness that bothers me, seems to me that a large portion of the people making a big show and dance about wearing a poppy barely have any interest in understanding what it must have been like to live through that war, many seem more interested in being faux offended at people who choose not to wear a poppy.

Every year it more and more resembles a gaudy celebration rather than a commemoration.

I would personally prefer if all the activities and round the clock coverage was kept to the weekend of so as not to water down the true meaning of Armistice day.
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A lot of your own perception in that

I don’t know anyone who wears a poppy out of anything other than respectful remembrance

As said above millions of lives lost I think a couple of weeks of coverage and respect isn’t a lot to ask
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I'm very perceptive, I don't think a couple of weeks of build up achieves anything to be honest, other than watering down the actual actual anniversary.
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Which is up to you

However others may want to learn and take in the remembrance over a longer period
This part of history cannot be forgotten
The lives our lost cannot be in vain
May they rest in peace

Was great when Harry Patch was still alive. They'd wheel him out and he'd remind people that WWI was little more than elite politicians sending young working class men to their deaths. It cut nicely through the jingoistic crap that modern politicians espoused when an actual WWI veteran was so against war.

Harry Leslie Smith has taken up that role in recent years - his Twitter account can be quite good. A proper bitter old lefty pacifist.

comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Sjb1888 (U5188)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Sjb1888 (U5188)
posted 11 minutes ago
It's the fakeness that bothers me, seems to me that a large portion of the people making a big show and dance about wearing a poppy barely have any interest in understanding what it must have been like to live through that war, many seem more interested in being faux offended at people who choose not to wear a poppy.

Every year it more and more resembles a gaudy celebration rather than a commemoration.

I would personally prefer if all the activities and round the clock coverage was kept to the weekend of so as not to water down the true meaning of Armistice day.
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A lot of your own perception in that

I don’t know anyone who wears a poppy out of anything other than respectful remembrance

As said above millions of lives lost I think a couple of weeks of coverage and respect isn’t a lot to ask
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I'm very perceptive, I don't think a couple of weeks of build up achieves anything to be honest, other than watering down the actual actual anniversary.
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Which is up to you

However others may want to learn and take in the remembrance over a longer period
This part of history cannot be forgotten
The lives our lost cannot be in vain
May they rest in peace
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Which is all fine and well until folk are hounded for not wearing a poppy weeks in advance.

comment by Drunken Hobo (U7360)
posted 24 seconds ago
Was great when Harry Patch was still alive. They'd wheel him out and he'd remind people that WWI was little more than elite politicians sending young working class men to their deaths. It cut nicely through the jingoistic crap that modern politicians espoused when an actual WWI veteran was so against war.

Harry Leslie Smith has taken up that role in recent years - his Twitter account can be quite good. A proper bitter old lefty pacifist.
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This

Zach this is for you since you march to a different drum anyway.

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

Interesting to read the comments as well - especially the one from Halis ÖZTÜRK

The war to end all wars.

Didn't quite work out.

Psycopaths + Greed + Egos start wars, and the kants that desire war are never the poor bastirts at the front line.

I feel sorry for soldiers, treated like cannon fodder, and for what...to get more oil, gas, minerals, gold..?

Aye bit...freedom.

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