| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. 20:00 - Oct 24 with 2194 views | SitfcB |
UWN.
Clubs so afraid of offending people these days.
Just waters it down for the attending fans IMO - and nobody ever does it right, the silence is supposed to be after the Last Post. |  |
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 20:04 - Oct 24 with 1954 views | vapour_trail |
Followed up with a loud round of boos for players saying they disagree with racism.
Not really worth giving the nod to the twentieth century fight against facism is it. |  |
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 20:10 - Oct 24 with 1915 views | jasondozzell |
Yep. It's just ridiculous. We are becoming America with the way we approach veteran and military type stuff. It's the opposite of the Britishness of it which was sombre and restrained. |  | | |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 20:16 - Oct 24 with 1885 views | Illinoisblue |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 20:10 - Oct 24 by jasondozzell |
Yep. It's just ridiculous. We are becoming America with the way we approach veteran and military type stuff. It's the opposite of the Britishness of it which was sombre and restrained. |
It’s a good point. When I first moved here in 2004 was talking to an older work colleague who’d been in London the previous year and he couldn’t believe how respectful and dignified the remembrance day service was. He was genuinely quite emotional about it. Everything is so tribal nowadays. We’ve lost something. [Post edited 24 Oct 20:18]
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| Pride. (n/t) on 20:19 - Oct 24 with 1827 views | Bloots |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 20:16 - Oct 24 by Illinoisblue |
It’s a good point. When I first moved here in 2004 was talking to an older work colleague who’d been in London the previous year and he couldn’t believe how respectful and dignified the remembrance day service was. He was genuinely quite emotional about it. Everything is so tribal nowadays. We’ve lost something. [Post edited 24 Oct 20:18]
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 20:21 - Oct 24 with 1825 views | Mercian |
Sadly the Poppy/Remembrance Day like The UK and England flags before it is in the process of being hijacked by the far right. I have even heard someone suggest that Germany in WWII was run by far left extremists and our lads were fighting to preserve British National Identity against the woke liberal Nazis. I kid you not. [Post edited 24 Oct 20:22]
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 20:26 - Oct 24 with 1757 views | jasondozzell |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 20:16 - Oct 24 by Illinoisblue |
It’s a good point. When I first moved here in 2004 was talking to an older work colleague who’d been in London the previous year and he couldn’t believe how respectful and dignified the remembrance day service was. He was genuinely quite emotional about it. Everything is so tribal nowadays. We’ve lost something. [Post edited 24 Oct 20:18]
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Really well put. Completely agree. | | | |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 20:54 - Oct 24 with 1620 views | Steve_M |
There’s a total lack of dignity and reflection in football’s treatment of Remembrance. The further we get from the mass conflicts of the twentieth century then the further ostentatious displays of remembrance get from the point.
Squires’ greatest work - and it’s a high, high bar - becomes more prescient every year — David Quainton (@dqstuff.bsky.social) 2025-10-24T19:25:57.159Z
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| Pride. (n/t) on 23:04 - Oct 24 with 1297 views | bartyg |
| Pride. (n/t) on 20:19 - Oct 24 by Bloots |
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The sinful one? |  | | |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 23:22 - Oct 24 with 1257 views | Plums |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 20:10 - Oct 24 by jasondozzell |
Yep. It's just ridiculous. We are becoming America with the way we approach veteran and military type stuff. It's the opposite of the Britishness of it which was sombre and restrained. |
One of our local retail parks has seen fit to 'decorate' the walls of various parts of the place with silhouettes. Not just the usual 'Tommy' figure with a rifle but numerous others including some very odd looking aircraft and a soldier with a machine gun on a tripod. All very dignified...
When I think of the hundreds of veterans who used to parade solemnly through the towns where the roads don't even get closed on 11/11 these days, I do wonder what they'd have to say. |  |
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 23:30 - Oct 24 with 1216 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Does everyone have to get quite so upset with everything?
Isn't it because of an international break nearest the weekend of 11/11?
God forbid a flag is flown on VE day or remembrance day. |  |
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 07:25 - Oct 25 with 927 views | noggin |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 23:30 - Oct 24 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Does everyone have to get quite so upset with everything?
Isn't it because of an international break nearest the weekend of 11/11?
God forbid a flag is flown on VE day or remembrance day. |
Hang your flag but don't pretend it has anything to do with remembering the fallen of the wars.
I think everyone should visit a war cemetery, at leat once as an adult. It is a very sobering and humbling experience. [Post edited 25 Oct 7:51]
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 07:39 - Oct 25 with 888 views | Swansea_Blue |
Ridiculous virtue signaling or a genuine wish to show respects in their home match nearest to Armistice Day? Hard to know these days.
The strangest thing is that they're not playing at home for another month. Their next home match is Sunday 23rd November. Presumably we've got another international break coming up, but that still seems like a long time. |  |
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 07:45 - Oct 25 with 867 views | vapour_trail |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 23:30 - Oct 24 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Does everyone have to get quite so upset with everything?
Isn't it because of an international break nearest the weekend of 11/11?
God forbid a flag is flown on VE day or remembrance day. |
Don’t think anyone has got upset.
Pipe down, soldier. | |
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 07:57 - Oct 25 with 812 views | azuremerlangus |
2 minutes silence. |  |
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 08:29 - Oct 25 with 714 views | MattinLondon |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 07:25 - Oct 25 by noggin |
Hang your flag but don't pretend it has anything to do with remembering the fallen of the wars.
I think everyone should visit a war cemetery, at leat once as an adult. It is a very sobering and humbling experience. [Post edited 25 Oct 7:51]
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For A-Level history I visited the First World War battlefields and it remains to this day (just shy of thirty years) one of the most emotional experiences of my life. And a few things have stayed with me.
1. The Last Post being played at nightfall in front of the gates to one of the cemeteries.
2. Visiting the resting place of a fourteen year old British soldier who was shot besides a much older colleague who had ‘adopted’ him in an attempt to try and keep him safe during that war.
3. The destroyed headstones of fallen Jewish German soldiers - during WW2, the Nazis desecrated such final resting places as it went against their idea of racial superiority.
Remembering the courage of those who died as well as the destruction which war brings is immensely important. But I do think that in order to do so, it needs to be done with a quiet dignity.
Just my thoughts anyway. |  | | |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 08:31 - Oct 25 with 710 views | noggin |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 08:29 - Oct 25 by MattinLondon |
For A-Level history I visited the First World War battlefields and it remains to this day (just shy of thirty years) one of the most emotional experiences of my life. And a few things have stayed with me.
1. The Last Post being played at nightfall in front of the gates to one of the cemeteries.
2. Visiting the resting place of a fourteen year old British soldier who was shot besides a much older colleague who had ‘adopted’ him in an attempt to try and keep him safe during that war.
3. The destroyed headstones of fallen Jewish German soldiers - during WW2, the Nazis desecrated such final resting places as it went against their idea of racial superiority.
Remembering the courage of those who died as well as the destruction which war brings is immensely important. But I do think that in order to do so, it needs to be done with a quiet dignity.
Just my thoughts anyway. |
"Remembering the courage of those who died as well as the destruction which war brings is immensely important. But I do think that in order to do so, it needs to be done with a quiet dignity."
Agree 100% | |
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 08:55 - Oct 25 with 620 views | Mullet |
Obviously we need to just ban it all now. Keep the "keep politics out of football" lot happy. |  |
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 09:55 - Oct 25 with 448 views | BeachBlue |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 07:25 - Oct 25 by noggin |
Hang your flag but don't pretend it has anything to do with remembering the fallen of the wars.
I think everyone should visit a war cemetery, at leat once as an adult. It is a very sobering and humbling experience. [Post edited 25 Oct 7:51]
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I've visited a number of war graves in Belgium and England. There's one in Felixstowe, it made me so sad when I saw the grave of a soldier from New Zealand.
I wear my poppy with pride and gratitude to those who've given their lives in service to their country.
Politics has nothing to do with it.
Its a matter of respect for our military. |  |
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 09:55 - Oct 25 with 449 views | Bluespeed225 |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 07:25 - Oct 25 by noggin |
Hang your flag but don't pretend it has anything to do with remembering the fallen of the wars.
I think everyone should visit a war cemetery, at leat once as an adult. It is a very sobering and humbling experience. [Post edited 25 Oct 7:51]
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Last month I went to Anzio, my Grandfather is buried in the Commonwealth cemetery. I also visited the British and American ones. No one from the family had ever been, Nana remarrying post war. I suggest people, (If local) join the Ipswich War Memorial FB page. When you see the home addresses of the names, and where they worked, streets and companies we all know, it really brings home how normal people got thrown into these things. |  | | |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 10:15 - Oct 25 with 355 views | Steve_M |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 08:29 - Oct 25 by MattinLondon |
For A-Level history I visited the First World War battlefields and it remains to this day (just shy of thirty years) one of the most emotional experiences of my life. And a few things have stayed with me.
1. The Last Post being played at nightfall in front of the gates to one of the cemeteries.
2. Visiting the resting place of a fourteen year old British soldier who was shot besides a much older colleague who had ‘adopted’ him in an attempt to try and keep him safe during that war.
3. The destroyed headstones of fallen Jewish German soldiers - during WW2, the Nazis desecrated such final resting places as it went against their idea of racial superiority.
Remembering the courage of those who died as well as the destruction which war brings is immensely important. But I do think that in order to do so, it needs to be done with a quiet dignity.
Just my thoughts anyway. |
Yes, I did similar a few years before you. Lots of things to make 18 years olds stop and think about what people of a similar age would have faced. A couple of additional memories of that trip:
Walking across the battlefield at Beaumont Hamel on the Somme, the British trenches are still there but shallower for safety but we walked across in rows. It's a long walk to the German trenches, much deeper and largely secure from the bombardment, on a bright November day in the 90s. On 1 June 1916 it would have been so much longer.
The shear scale of Tyne Cott cemetery. It's enormous, from the monument in the centre just rows of graves in every direction, and those are just the graves of soldiers where the bits left were big enough to bury. | |
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 10:38 - Oct 25 with 318 views | Everydayblue |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 09:55 - Oct 25 by Bluespeed225 |
Last month I went to Anzio, my Grandfather is buried in the Commonwealth cemetery. I also visited the British and American ones. No one from the family had ever been, Nana remarrying post war. I suggest people, (If local) join the Ipswich War Memorial FB page. When you see the home addresses of the names, and where they worked, streets and companies we all know, it really brings home how normal people got thrown into these things. |
I see a lot of far lefties trying to attach "far rightness" to anything traditional in this country, these days.
And no one is buying it , anymore.
A very old couple, yesterday, sat outside my local supermarket. Possibly in their 80's. Taking donations and offering poppies to shoppers.
A million miles away from anything "hijacked by the far right".
I'm a middle aged white man... According to Gary Neville, that makes me a racist?
Terms like, Racist, Faschist, Far Right etc.. Are completely losing their impact and true meaning. When they are spouted constantly for no reason.
The majority of our country are bored of it.
The boys and men of whole villages and towns gave their lives in WW1 and WW2.
They must be remembered, in a dignified fashion, for theirs and their families sacrifices. | | | |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 10:49 - Oct 25 with 264 views | Miaow |
That Jardins pub place on Lakes Road in Braintree will likely have a nice, understated display of Remembrance as it tends to do...
Complete with a cenotaph. |  |
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| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 10:55 - Oct 25 with 247 views | bluelagos |
| Remembrance Day minute silence on the 24th October. on 10:38 - Oct 25 by Everydayblue |
I see a lot of far lefties trying to attach "far rightness" to anything traditional in this country, these days.
And no one is buying it , anymore.
A very old couple, yesterday, sat outside my local supermarket. Possibly in their 80's. Taking donations and offering poppies to shoppers.
A million miles away from anything "hijacked by the far right".
I'm a middle aged white man... According to Gary Neville, that makes me a racist?
Terms like, Racist, Faschist, Far Right etc.. Are completely losing their impact and true meaning. When they are spouted constantly for no reason.
The majority of our country are bored of it.
The boys and men of whole villages and towns gave their lives in WW1 and WW2.
They must be remembered, in a dignified fashion, for theirs and their families sacrifices. |
"I'm a middle aged white man... According to Gary Neville, that makes me a racist? "
I might be mistaken here - but I am willing to wager that statement is complete and utter bollox.
Feel free to correct me if not. |  |
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