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Don Surber 11/9/2014 Tom Piper is a British theater designer who has captured the heart and soul of his nation this fall with a simple, eloquent and beautiful display of patriotism that combines pacifism with nationalism. The exhibit arrived at just the right moment for a nation ravaged by self-doubts on many fronts. […] November 9th, 2014 | Tags: "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red", Paul Cummins, poppies, Queen Elizabeth II, Remembrance Day, Tom Piper, Tower of London | Category: France, Germany, Great Britain, History, World War I | Comments are closed
The British Monarchy Facebook 10 November 2013 The Queen at the Cenotaph on Whitehall where she laid a wreath during the annual Remembrance Sunday service, 10 November 2013. More than 10,000 military veterans and civilians will march past the Cenotaph later to commemorate the war dead.
H/T T.S.
[…] November 10th, 2013 | Tags: Armistice Day, funeral, Harold Jellicoe Percival, Queen Elizabeth II, Remembrance Day, Veterans | Category: Great Britain, Military, World War I, World War II | Comments are closed
An American Housewife (occasionally) in London 11/11/2012 In the US we know, vaguely, of November 11th as Veteran’s Day, which follows the Marine Corps birthday by a day. Sadly, it isn’t much noticed. Memorial Day in May is bigger in the national consciousness. In the UK Remembrance Sunday is held the closest Sunday […] November 11th, 2012 | Tags: "Animal in War" memorial, "In Flanders Fields", Alexis Helmer, Belgium, Boston, Dog Tag Memorial, Enda Kenny, Gen. George S. Patton, George Orwell, Ireland, John McCrae, London, Nowzad Dog [Animal] Rescue, Old North Church, Pen Farthing, poetry, President Ronald Reagan, Queen Elizabeth II, Remembrance Day, service animals, Veterans' Day, Ypres | Category: Afghanistan, Canada, Europe, Great Britain, History, Iraq, Massachusetts, United States, World War I, World War II | Comments are closed
11 November 2011 In Flanders Field An American Housewife 11/11/2011 In the US we know, vaguely, of November 11th as Veteran’s Day, which follows the Marine Corps birthday by a day. Sadly, it isn’t much noticed. Memorial Day in May is bigger in the national consciousness. In the UK Remembrance Sunday is held the closest […] November 11th, 2011 | Tags: "In Flanders Fields", "Occupy Oakland", "Occupy Wall Street", Armistice Day, New York City, poppies, Remembrance Day, Scott Olsen, Veterans, Veterans' Day | Category: Great Britain, Military, New York, World War I, World War II | Comments are closed
Bare Naked Islam 11/9/2011 More at Bare Naked Islam. Related: Thanks to the English Defence League (EDL), the Muslim hate group ‘Muslims Against Crusades’ has been banned in the UK On the eve of the Muslim ‘Hell for Heroes’ protest against British Military Heroes Remembrance Day, the UK Home Secretary has made it […] November 10th, 2011 | Tags: Anjem Choudary, Armistice Day, Cambridge, Egypt, Eid, English Defence League, forced marriages, multiculturalism, Muslims Against Crusades, Remembrance Day, Theresa May, Veterans, Veterans' Day | Category: Education, Europe, Germany, Great Britain, Islam, Massachusetts, Michigan, Military, religion | Comments are closed
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