In Flanders Fields

**Niblox** · 27th August 09, 01:05 PM

We did attend the evening ceremony of the Last Post. As well as the detachment of buglers from the Ypres Fire Brigade, there was also a delegation from the UK military there, and a group representing Ulster regiments with the banners of the Ulster Volunteer Force. We met two men from Hiroshima at the ceremony who were children when the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

**dfmacliam** · 27th August 09, 01:17 PM

No greater love than to give ones life for his brother.. Thank you for posting these pictures.... It's humbling to see the cost of Freedom, and special to see and hear the respect given to those who gave their lives for it.

**Arizona Scot** · 27th August 09, 01:23 PM

Thank you for posting these, very sobering.

**GMan** · 27th August 09, 01:34 PM

Thank you.

**SFCRick** · 27th August 09, 01:55 PM

Grand set of photos, thanks

**Macman** · 27th August 09, 02:32 PM

Thanks for taking the time to post the pics, Niblox.

**Stratherrick** · 27th August 09, 03:00 PM

Thanks for posting the photos.

I have a great uncle who was killed in WW1.

I also have a photo of an American GI who stayed with my dad's family immediately prior to D-Day. He died on Omaha beach. It's the last photo of him alive. I've spent years, all to no avail as yet, trying to trace his family in Missouri.

Slainte

Bruce

**macwilkin** · 27th August 09, 07:47 PM

Originally Posted by Stratherrick

Thanks for posting the photos.

I have a great uncle who was killed in WW1.

I also have a photo of an American GI who stayed with my dad's family immediately prior to D-Day. He died on Omaha beach. It's the last photo of him alive. I've spent years, all to no avail as yet, trying to trace his family in Missouri.

Slainte

Bruce

Where at in Missouri?

For anyone who hasn't seen it, the History Channel has a wonderful documentary about the 1914 Christmas Truce that features the son of a German soldier and the daughter of Bruce Bairnsfather (the creator of "Old Bill") meeting at the Menin Gate for the playing of Last Post. Ironically their fathers had met in No Man's Land in 1914 and swapped tunic buttons as a momento of the ocassion.

Whenever Silent Night is played at Midnight Mass on Christmas, I always think of those soldiers meeting in No Man's Land. Many thanks for sharing these moving pictures with us.

Lest we forget.

Todd