THE WAR MEMORIAL MARKET SQUARE DUNGANNON
| THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE |
The Legion is committed to helping everyone understand the importance of Remembrance so that sacrifices of our Armed Forces past and present are never forgotten.
And we that are left grow old with the years
Remembering the heartache, the pain and the tears
Hoping and praying that never again
Man will sink to such sorrow and shame
The price that was paid we will always remember
Every day, every month, not just in November.
We Shall Remember Them.
The .FEPOVV prayer, by Cpl. Arthur E. Ogden and Victor Merrett (FEPOVVS).
TO THE MEMORY OF THE FALLEN AND THE FUTURE OF THE LIVING
LORD HOLD OUR TROOPS IN YOUR LOVING HANDS PROTECT THEM AS THEY PROTECT US BLESS THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES FOR THE SELFLESS ACTS THEY PERFORM FOR US IN OUR TIME OF NEED.
IN JESUS NAME
"AMEN"
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THE ACT OF REMEMBRANCE
EXHORTATION
(Adapted from "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon)
They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemm.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.
KOHIMA EPITAPH
"When you go home, tell them of us and say,
For your tomorrow, we gave our today"
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The Royal British Legion is recognised as the national custodian of Remembrance.
Remembrance Sunday, the second Sunday in November, is the day traditionally put aside to remember all those who have given their lives past and present for the peace and freedom we enjoy today.
The Annual Service Of Remembrance is a unique expression of national homage devoted to those who had given their lives in war. It was originally conceived as a commemoration of the war dead of the First World War but after the Second World War, the ceremony was extended to focus on both world wars and subsequent conflicts.
However, there are people who decry this annual ceremony, saying it is better to forget and that such ceremonies merely seek to glorify war. They regard old soldiers with their medals and wreaths and the silence as an anachronism in a world fearful of the nuclear threat. Such people are ignorant of our purpose in keeping alive memories of those who made the Supreme Sacrifice. That purpose whilst serving the present, is to point a finger at the past and a warning to the future, for if experience of the past cannot be learned and remembered, then assuredly, the outlook for the world is bleak indeed. There is nothing hostile in remembrance, its significance is as great for ex-foes for as ourselves.
The following words which seem to get to the crux of the matter, were added to a school Memorial after the Second World War.
| "Read through our names, and think of us now dead,who stood here once like you and also read,the names of men in another war, Died as we died. And see there be no more". |
THE BUGEL SOUNDED, HE ANSWERED THE CALL, HE NOBLY DIED FOR ALL
Lone Piper on Remembrance Sunday
Dungannon Silver Band leading the Parade
Moy War Memorial
At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month
we will remember them.
On 11 November 1918 the the Armistice was signed and the Great War - 'the war to end all wars' - was over. Close to a million British and Commonwealth troops had made the ultimate sacrifice, many of them dying on the fields in Flanders.
Every year at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month we remember the end of the First World War and all who gave their lives then and since.
Who are these men,who march so proud,
Who quietly weep, eyes closed, head bowed?
These are the men,who once were boys,
Who missed out on youth,and all its joys.
Who are these men, with aged faces?
Who silently count, the empty spaces?
These are the men, who gave their all,
Who fought for their country, for freedom for all.
Who are these men, with sorrowful look,
Who still remember, the lives that were took?
These are the men, who saw young men die,
The price of peace is always high.
Who are these men, who, in the midst of pain,
Whispered comfort to those, they would not see again?
These are the men, whose hand held tomorrow,
Who brought back our future, with blood, tears and sorrow.
Who are these men, who promise to keep
Alive in their hearts, the ones God holds asleep?
These are the men, to whom I promise again,
Veterans, my friends, I will remember them!
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