Remembrance Sunday, touching idea

Morning all, I spent last week having a break in the stunning Snowdonia National Park and after a visit to Conwy on Remembrance Sunday, I saw what I thought was a really good and touching idea.

They had placed a poppy on the front door of the houses the fallen had lived in, along with the name, then made a downloadable map for people to walk the town and visit the addresses.

I thought it was a poiniant and imaginative way to reconnect names on the Town memorial with the Town itself, particularly with youngsters in mind.

Agreed, shame they didn't think of that 100 years ago, or since. Those poor buggers were cannon fodder on the front line and then to be unwanted on their return was inexcusable!
I always felt on returning after what we had been through and the lads we had lost.................nobody cared at all in civvy street.
Was I wrong or did others feel that way

I still see it today, lots of lip service and lots of showmanship when a fallen man comes back but if it doesn't affect them personally, it doesn't stay long.

There is a house that I know and pass by from time to time, over many years, and there has always been a lamp lit at all times in the front window but I had never known the reason why. A couple of years ago someone told me that the reason for the lamp in the front window is that a husband and wife use to live in the house and the man had to leave to fight in WW1. On leaving the house the wife said to her husband that she would leave a lamp alight in the window until he returned. Sadly and predictably he didn't return home, like so many others, but his wife kept the lamp alight for the remainder of her life. It was also suggested to me that the wife had conditions placed on the deeds of the property that the lamp must be kept alight by all subsequent owners of the property. I do not know if this last bit is true but I do know that the lamp is still alight today, in the front window, as it has been for about the last 100 years.

I think out of all the coalition forces, Canada is perhaps the best example of honouring their fallen on their return home.
Very moving indeed: U S Media Tribute to Highway of Heroes - YouTube

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Originally Posted by Gil Boyd

Canada is perhaps the best example of honouring their fallen on their return home

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Yes, it's quite a show while there's cameras. It's the after part I'm talking about, but I don't want to get too much into that.