Remembrance Sunday - the saddest of them all?

[Everton FC]

Originally Posted by yairimann

I'm not one for formally observing ceremonies even though living in small towns,I've usually lived vey close to cenotaphs.
I'll usually read a few memoirs or histories especially of the Great War, which particularly interests me. Right now I'm 3/4s through "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat.
I signed up for Netflix a month or two ago specifically to watch "They Shall Not Grow Old." Then found out among all the documentaries they have, they don't have that one. Oops!
I'll also phone my 95 year old Aunt who served in the WACs in the last year of the Second World War. We owe everything to these people and should at least remember them.

The Cruel Sea is a fantastic film, almost unknown these days. A truly remarkable movie to watch w/young people - kids, et al - so they can see how fortunate they are, and how brave/fortunate/unfortunate many were, "back then".

[Bob Womack]

My hobby is studying WWII. I've got a WWII-era British artificial horizon sitting on the surround speaker behind the couch where I am sitting to type this. It is the type used by the RAF in their fighters and bombers during the war. In the '80s, all of the old used-up artificial horizons in the inventory were screwed down to wooden wedges to be used as book ends and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Spitfire and sold off. It is there to remind me of my uncle, a Spitfire pilot, who died near Liverpool during the war.

Bob