#remembrance day 2023

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The 2023 National Service Of Remembrance At The Cenotaph

King Charles III, Prince William, Queen Camilla, Catherine, Princess of Wales, Princess Anne, and Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, during the National Service of Remembrance at The Cenotaph on 12 November 2023 in London, England.

Every year, members of the British Royal family join politicians, veterans and members of the public to remember those who have died in combat.

📸: Tim Rooke / Pool / Samir Hussein / WireImage

[dark333rose]

Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields, Sleep sweet - to rise anew! We caught the torch you threw And holding high, we keep the Faith With All who died.

We cherish, too, the poppy red That grows on fields where valor led; It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies, But lends a lustre to the red Of the flower that blooms above the dead In Flanders Fields.

And now the Torch and Poppy Red We wear in honour of our dead. Fear not that ye have died for naught; We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought In Flanders Fields. -by Moira Michael, November 1918 

[wales-windsor]

Queen Camilla and the Princess of Wales attend the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph, in Whitehall, London on November 12, 2023

[donmaciver]

A Lifetime to Remember

Though your heart aches for all those lost in the strife of war and its aftermath, hold onto deeply cherished memories for their salvation and your own essential healing.

On this, Remembrance Day, 2023, let us pause to reflect on moments in history around the globe where so many lives were lost to the ravages of war. Left in it’s destructive path are the survivors of loved ones who so valiantly fought for peace. May our hearts go out to those loved ones who live on….and those who died in horrific moments in history. ‘Lest we forget’, the bravery, the valor the…

[winterthebeau]

its remembrance day, remember to get yourself a poppy :3

[windstrikenbard]

Happy Remembrance Day, everyone.

Lest We Forgot those who've died for our freedom

Who fight on our frontlines

Who send aid to those who need it

Freedom is never free. Thank you, to our living and fallen soldiers, for all that you do to keep our country free. We will never forgot.

[aqg-arts]

Today, the 11/11/23, marks the end of the fighting of WW1. on the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month, I kindly ask that you take a moment of silence for not just our fallen ANZACs, but the diggers who are still fighting and carrying on their legacy today.

There are better ways to do this; better ways to celebrate their sacrifice. However, I'm not one for words today- my family served in a lotta wars, so today holds a very hard place in my heart- Instead, let me 'read' to you two poems on this very sombre day:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie,

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

- Flanders Fields, John Mcrae

The love of field and coppice,

Of green and shaded lanes.

Of ordered woods and gardens

Is running in your veins,

Strong love of grey-blue distance

Brown streams and soft dim skies

I know but cannot share it,

My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,

A land of sweeping plains,

Of ragged mountain ranges,

Of droughts and flooding rains.

I love her far horizons,

I love her jewel-sea,

Her beauty and her terror –

The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest

All tragic to the moon,

The sapphire-misted mountains,

The hot gold hush of noon.

Green tangle of the brushes,

Where lithe lianas coil,

And orchids deck the tree-tops

And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!

Her pitiless blue sky,

When sick at heart, around us,

We see the cattle die –

But then the grey clouds gather,

And we can bless again

The drumming of an army,

The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!

Land of the Rainbow Gold,

For flood and fire and famine,

She pays us back threefold –

Over the thirsty paddocks,

Watch, after many days,

The filmy veil of greenness

That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,

A wilful, lavish land –

All you who have not loved her,

You will not understand –

Though earth holds many splendours,

Wherever I may die,

I know to what brown country

My homing thoughts will fly.

- My Country, Dorothea Mackellar

They shall not grow old,

as we who are grow old;

Age shall not weary them,

Nor the years condem.

At the going down of the sun,

And the in the morning,

We shall remember them.

Lest we forget.

[princesscatherineblog]

Remembrance Sunday

[usarmytrooper]

Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

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No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory.

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With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

December 8, 1941

[kate-royal-style-world]

A Royal Recycling (part 315)

Catherine Walker

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[guilty-feminist]

[royalpain16]

The royal ladies at the Royal Albert Hall, Remembrance Day Performance

Queen Camilla, Princess Catherine, Sophie Duchess of Edinburgh, Princess Anne, Brigitte Duchess of Gloucester.

Every year, the Royal British Legion hosts the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall.

[wales-windsor]

charles really opened up that vault🥳

[laurierthefox]

Bonjour à toustes.

Aujourd'hui c'est le 20 novembre, c'est le #TDOR (Transgender Day of Remembrance, Journée du souvenir trans), le jour ou on se souviens de nos adelphes mort'es : assassiné'es et suicidé'es.

Selon les chiffres de Human Right Campaign et Trans Murder Monitoring Project depuis un an, environ 321 personnes trans et non binaire sont mortes du fait de la transphobie.

- https://transrespect.org/en/trans-murder-monitoring-2023/

- https://www.hrc.org/.../fatal-violence-against-the...

Une super vidéo de Lexie sur l'origine de cette journée : https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz223Qfi6oR/

Si vous ne voulez pas passer ce moment seul'e vous pouvez vous tournez vers vos associations trans et LGBTI+ qui font des recueillement publique ou en ligne ce soir.

Plein de force, d'amour et de soutien pendant ce temps de recueillement.

[queen0funova]

I missed the Trans Day of Remembrance ceremony my local lgbtq center did, so I did my own tiny home ceremony:

I wrote the names of all the people who died on a piece of paper. I then carried that paper around all day before finally going home, saying a little, for lack of a better word, prayer, rinsing the ink off the paper, crumpling it up, and tearing it apart

It's not much, but it was a bit cathartic