Remembrance weekend

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    granty the red Well-Known Member

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    Hi all, I very rarely miss a Barnsley game home and away but will be missing Shrewsbury this Saturday. There is a good reason for this. I have changed my sons match from Sunday to Saturday and have arranged for some of my family, friends and friends of friends which are all veterans/ex servicemen to come to my sons match and perform a remembrance service before kick off. We have a number of ex servicemen coming from different regiments in their colours, berets and standards. We also have a good friend that will perform The last post on the bugle. So.. if anyone isn’t going to the match and has a free hour spare on Saturday morning you are more than welcome to come and support our vets/ex servicemen on this weekend of remembrance. We play at South Hiendley welfare ground, S72 9BS. The pitch is straight opposite The Sun Inn pub between the houses.
    WE WILL REMEMBER THEM!
     
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    Good on you but I don't get why you've brought it forward.
     
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    granty the red Well-Known Member

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    The reason I brought it forward is so everyone wishing to attend a parade any where on Sunday they can do so
     
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    granty the red Well-Known Member

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    We also have The Chronicle attending on Saturday which will be good.
     
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    I'm marching at the cenotaph on Sunday for the first time, hopefully the weather will be kind. COYR
     
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    granty the red Well-Known Member

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    I will be there as we are every year. Your more than welcome to join in with ours on Saturday if you are free?
     
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    Very kind mate, I'm proudly marching with the Type 21 association ( I was on HMS Active during the Falklands conflict) . Have a great day, might see you there.
     
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    granty the red Well-Known Member

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    LEST WE FORGET
     
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    Poignant song of the day on Essential Classics this morning:

     
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    Is that Monk Bretton?
     
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    JLWBigLil Well-Known Member

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    Just a matter of yards away from our home on High Street, Dodworth.
     
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    Impressive statue on the top.
     
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    JLWBigLil Well-Known Member

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    Originally, it was built to commemerate the men who had lost their lives during World War 1. It was unveiled early in the 1920's.
     
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    It looks similar in the way it's sculptured to a brass ornament my Grandad was given of a miner when he left South Kirkby pit in the early eighties.
     
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    Just a reminder. If anyone has a free hour this morning, have a drive up to South Hiendley Welfare, Main Street, S72 9BS. Before my sons match we are having a small remembrance service to remember those who gave their lives so we could have ours! We will be there around 10.15. The match will commence after the service at 11.02.

    WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
     
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    I do not mean this to be disrespectful but when did it become “Remembrance Weekend”? For me there is Armistice Day which is always 11th November and Remembrance Sunday which falls on the nearest Sunday to the 11th.

    On another level a couple of weeks ago it was Halloween Weekend?!?!?!
     
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    Mother can you hear me
    I'm lying here all alone
    In this foreign country
    So many miles from home

    I can see your gentle face
    Tears shining in your eyes
    When you left me at the station
    And we said our last goodbyes

    My life is flashing here before me
    I know my end is near
    And running down my cheek
    I can taste a salty tear

    I can see our little house
    On our little road
    And all my friends I played with
    Unlike them, I won't grow old

    I can see all of our neighbours
    Standing with their cups of tea
    I looked out for those neighbours
    And they looked out for me

    And I can see sweet Maggie
    She lives two doors away
    My dream it was to fall in love
    And marry her some day

    And I can see my Father
    A gentle man was he
    When he came home from the docks
    He would rock me on his knee

    Forgive me mum for leaving you
    I know I've broke your heart
    But I'm fighting for my country
    I had to do my part

    Just remember Mother
    What you taught me way back then
    When our time on earth is over
    We shall meet up once again

    So Mother I'll be waiting
    At Heaven's open door
    And when the good Lord calls you
    We shall never part no more

    Mum I have to go now
    I'm in a lot of pain
    I'm waiting on my Saviour
    Calling out my name

    I hope they take my body home
    To that grand place of my Birth
    Then I can rest forever
    In my good old Barnsley Earth LWF❤️
     
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    Watching Festival of Remberence on bbc,absolutely brilliant and so sad at times. The work that goes into putting this on is nothing short of remarkable. So many wasted lives and great to remember them. We will remember them.
     
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