Remeberance Day 2020 (1 Viewer)

[Obee]

It's almost the appointed time here in Perth ...

at 11:00 on the 11th of November, we, like many people around the world will be pausing for a minute's silence to remember the fallen, not only from WW1, but from all wars.

This morning on my daily walk, I have visited out local War memorial and laid a sprig of Rosemary, from our herb garden there in honour of my Uncle jack, an 18 year old kid who copped a piece of shrapnel 3 months before the end of WW1, died the following day and has remained in on the Somme for 102 years.

This is tribute to him on my a cabinet of toy soldier collection ...



And a close up of that figure ( with my grandmother as he left Australia), and two others I have painted to represent him in 1917 & 18, all by Wilson Edwards Toy Soldiers.

LEST WE FORGET

 

[Louis Badolato]

At 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning I will call my dear friend (and trhe best man at my wedding) Rick Spinelli, a veteran of two tours in Vietnam, the first as a Marine, the second, after his discharge from the Marine Corps, when he did not care for civilian life, as an Airborne Ranger, leading to a 20 year career as a First Sergeant, to thank him for his service. After that, its up to our shrine for my Uncle and Alec's Great Uncle Joseph Amanna, who made the ultimate sacrifice on May 5, 1944, on a mission to bomb Berlin in the B17 Rikki Tikki Tavi, to remember him, as well as my Grandfather, who survived WWI, my Uncle Jack and Uncle Leo (who survived WWII), my Uncle Dominick (a highly decorated veteran who survivied Korea) and my father, a Naval aviator during the Korean Conflict, who flew a Martin PBM Flying Boat and was stationed at the Panama Canal.

And for all of you veterans of United States and Allied armed forces, thank you all for your service and God Bless You!:salute::