11/11/11 11:00 Rememberance day/Vetrans Day

If ww2 Talk can do it so can we can't we? Cannot see anything similar on our forum so will post it here. A bit late for tomorrow I know but we have our Rememberance day on Sunday over here. A weekend of Rememberance as well as the day itself tomorrow.

Who do you personally remember? Lost generations.

I'll take a minute or two on Friday to remember the following. No gung ho stuff, just a thought maybe.

A poppy bought for

My mums 2 uncles France ww1. And her two aunts my great aunts that survived them. But lived in mourning from that day on. The house they shared, a dark, grey, memorial to their two brothers. Two spinsters who never forgot and seemed to suffer as much. As a child I hated going into my Great Aunt Kate and Frans flat. I didn't understand.

My mums brother, La Panne France ww2. And my mum herself for coping with a family of 9 siblings in a house in turmoil during that war, her own mum affected to the poing of giving up and her dad in Burma.

Corporal Maheshkumar Islania Raf Wildenrath, Telecoms and his sixth month baby both shot by the IRA, RAF Wildenrath October 26th 1989.

Snookie....British Army Corporal. By his own hand and weapon. We missed the signs.

And those that came back, my dad, his brother and all my relatives and friends who served.

And one yank kid too and his mother. No one should lose so much.

Per Ardua Ad Astra.

 

My Great Uncle and my very reason for coming to this site in a search to learn more about his service:

MSgt. William Essmeier 693rd Field Artillery Battalion WWII...Later CWO Hq Hq Company 9th Infantry Regiment 2nd Infantry Division MIA Kunu-Ri Gauntlet, Korea Nov. 1950...Declared KIA Dec 1950 remains still unrecovered.

 

These brave men and women deserve remembering, watch this video and show your support, thank you
OneWomansWar's Channel - YouTube

 

Cyril Vivian Brice - Killed at Neuve Chappelle while serving with the Second Devonshires 10/03/1915.
Quite likely a 'friendly fire' incident.

John Morgan-Richards - Killed in Burma when his Jeep struck a mine 30/11/1944.
Volunteered from a reserved occupation.

And Grandad, who never died in war, but was Army to the core - from boy soldier at 15, through Lt. Col. at retirement, to bugler & Queens chaplain at his funeral. Spent much of his retirement organising for the Poppy Appeal. I always think of him today too.

~A

 

In memory of those lost in battle.. Thank you for the sarifices made for our freedom...

Rest in peace

 

For me tomorrow is a paid holiday and, as such, it's observance has been relegated to such benign observances as: Colombus Day, President's Day and Groundhog's Day. And with that; I challenge all of us, who get November 11th off of work with pay, to donate a day's wages to a Veteran's organization.

 

I started in 1986 to have a little drink for each person I served with who died, after too few years it got to be more than I could drink.

On the 11/11/11 I remember and hold 2 minutes of silence, no matter where I am or what I am doing for the over 40 of my friends and colleagues who lost their lives over my 24 years in the British Army.

On remembrance Sunday I remember those I never knew who lost their lives in the British Commonwealth Armed forces and their allies.

 

We lost a lot of Relatives and close family friends in WW1. WW2 and in Vietnam

Read about my Dad <Google.Earth Kmz link to the crash site ==> Donald Broadribb Wilson - and his pilot: Gordon Webster MacDonald DFC at: http://www.ww2f.com/information-requests/26901-82-squadron-raf-nth-africa-burma-info-request.html

Read about my next door neighbour at: John Mackie
and detailed story at: http://www.ww2f.com/information-requests/26902-33-squadron-raf-africa-greece-1940-41-a.html

Somebody to Love - Heroic Sacrifices
Read about Frank Willard Wilson, Cpl S&R Crew Chief HMM-161 MAG-16 650606 (vvm 02E:001): USMC/COMBAT HELICOPTER ASSOCIATION - KIA DATABASE
Somebody to Love

See: Remembrance Day and Armistice Day 2012: Anti-War Anthems

 

My great uncle Bates Harris. Thank you for your sacrifice sir. We will never forget. And to the rest of my family and friends and all the other veterans that fought for our country and theirs.
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Where would we find a place to do this? I would like to keep it in my state. I send soldiers (that I don't know) packages monthly when I can already. Its not much, but I know they appreciate it.

 

Krystal - some suggestions:

Wounded Warriors, VFW, USO, to name a few. I am not sure about your money staying local, you'd just have to check. Our local VFW has a fund to help local veterans and they take donations to create and hang the military signs around town with all of the active military names on them and we have an equestrian therapy center in our community that works with the disabled and they have recently partnered with Wounded Warriors, so you can donate to them for their work with wounded veterans and it stays local, for example. If you have a local military unit, you might check with them. They have Family Readiness Groups that are supposed to help the military member and their familes (some are well organized and do that for the families, some are not, but it's worth a try).

And the Patriot Guard Riders do a number of things to honor our military, particularly for our fallen military, but they often need donations for various things and usually work within their home state. We have a PGR traveling memorial wall in our state, the PGR created and maintains it and transports and guards it all at no cost, so they can always use donations for it. We held a Run for the Fallen in August and had the PGR bring the wall and it was amazing the reaction it got - I know it doesn't help the veterans themselves, but it helps the families to see their loved ones are not forgotten and it added a great deal of meaning to the phrase, "Run for the Fallen," to see the faces of the fallen.

We put on the Run for the Fallen for our state and we took donations at that event and purchased items for our local unit, as another example. (Your VFW or American Legion might have information on those types of events in the area.)


(An aside, talking about the wall reminded me: At the Run for the Fallen I was standing by the Wall talking to a friend and a little boy came up to the wall, he was only about 3 or 4 years old and he kissed a picture on the wall - luckily it was low to the ground and he could reach it - and he said, "I love you, Daddy." As you can imagine, I was stunned, and I said, "Is that your daddy on there?" and his mother walked up and said, "Tell her your daddy's name," and the little boy pointed to the picture, of the 240 on that wall, he picked out the right picture, and said his dad's name and then kissed the picture again. That family walked for their loved one and then they stayed by the wall the entire event and talked to people and hugged people and cried with people. It was amazing, it was humbling.)

 

This part made me cry. So sad all the children that don't have a father/mother to grow up with. I had a wonderful dad.
Anyways, thank you, by local I mean within my state. Cheyenne has a VFW hospital, I may give them a call and see what they have going. Thanks again

 

This is the one I am using

Challenge - Dakota Meyer - Honoring Marines by Educating Their Children

 

Not a personal memory perhaps, but I'm allowed the tangent. Well I say I am anyway....Max Hatings is not my favourite writer by any means...But I think he may have it by golly.

Remembrance Sunday: Honour the war heroes but also honour the terrified | Mail Online

The uniform does not make the hero. But that is for another thread.