Remembrance Day - November 11

[liverpool annie]

Hi OR !

Apparently the anti war protestors were put off here today .... I don't think they wanted to mess with these guys ....... there was over 200 Vietnam Veterans on motorcycles all carrying flags ....... an AMAZING sight .... !!  

I'm glad you went !

Annie  

[old rowley]

I'am glad that I went as well Annie, athough a long day it was well worth it. But unfortunately it is a sign of our times that after laying our small crosses at Westminster we found that the Cenotaph had, not only a small fence around it, but a line of police officers to stop any one from desecrating it and protesting there.

old rowley

[PaulaToo]

Don't know what to say to that, old rowley...
So sad

[liverpool annie]

I'am glad that I went as well Annie, athough a long day it was well worth it. But unfortunately it is a sign of our times that after laying our small crosses at Westminster we found that the Cenotaph had, not only a small fence around it, but a line of police officers to stop any one from desecrating it and protesting there.

old rowley

What a shame my friend ! .....
lets just hope that one of these days their thinking will be turned around .... just takes people like us - who carry on remembering and believing ...... to make a difference .... !

Annie 

[chinakay]

When I think of our brave young military men who are willing to lay their lives down so that those protesters can have the freedom to protest against the military...makes my brain twirl

Cheers,
China

[old rowley]

took a photograph of the women of world war two memorial whilst there which I thought that you might like to see Annie,

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[old rowley]

aarrrggggghhh even with cropping it still came out too big, any chance that someone can crop/resize it please to fit.......thanks


old rowley

[liverpool annie]

Oh Wow ! ..... I haven't seen a picture of it before !

That's very cool ! thanks OR  !! 

[old rowley]

That's ok Annie, we managed to get a couple of pictures of it before being pounced on by two coppers as it turned out we should not have been down that far (it is the one next to the Cenotaph itself) before the march past (would not mind but another copper had said that it was ok to do it seeing as it was two hours before anyone else turned up)........slapped wrists and escorted out of the secure zone  ........only for my sister and I to go back in the way we had come (we had passes) and to go back where we had started from  ..............

old rowley