Festival of Remembrance

[maggiebee]

Just home from Dundee's Festival of Remembrance. Every year I say I will not get emotional, but when the soldiers just home from Afghanistan marched down the central aisle I just welled up. Very moving service, great music, community singing and the skirl of the pipes had everyone toe tapping. Off for my beauty sleep now - boy do I need it.

[Ann]

I always watch the one from the Royal Albert Hall on TV Maggie, I feel emotional when the poppies start to fall ................

[hc4361]

We shall not forget.

[marval]

Yes I like to watch the one fron the Royal Albert Hall. It is good to remember the fallen.

[nungate]

It's the sound of the pipes when I am away from home that makes me well up a bit Maggie.
The Festival of Remembrance is always an emotional experience I've found

[hc4361]

I will be at my town ceremony at 11 am tomorrow.

[Maydup]

Is it not next week HC?

[Dee Sa]

whats wrong with "welling up" let them know we are proud of them and we care.

[emmie]

I have been to the Royal Albert Hall for the Remembrance concert
and have stood by the Cenotaph endless times and whichever one it is, it never fails to make me weep.

[venator]

We shall remember them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvSXC_3NPNs&feature=related

[tonyav]

I should like to go to the cenotaph one in London at some time, em.

[emmie]

i would welcome any company, it is so often damp and drizzly, the time of year of course, and somehow adds to the poignancy of the event. To see some of these elderly ex servicemen and women many of whom won't be around too much longer, parade with heads held high, a lump comes to your throat. I think of those gone and those who are heading off to war with a sad heart.