Please pause at 11 am this morning, in whichever timezone you may be. Don't let the shopping centres take this away from us, or even our own so time poor lives.
I was in the Post Office at 10.45am this morning and the cue was rather long. It got to my turn and hit 11.00am so just stood there quietly. I was asked to move forward but pointed to the clock on the wall. Suddenly the place went quiet. The lady apologised when I moved to counter.
Keep Safe on the roads and out there.
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In my opinion, it may not be well known, what the eleventh hour, of the eleventh month, signifies
It was the end of The Great War, a war so horrific, it was predicted (in those times), that mankind would never go to war again
RIP to all the military personnel, who have died in all the wars
My grandfather, on my fathers side, was a soldier, and gassed in WW1
He died in 1921, (of his injuries), he probably thought, like many others who saw the horror of the trenches, that it had actually been, the war to end all wars
About 10 years ago my wife and I were driving around in the French country side near the city of Amiens when we came across a small Australian war cemetary it was in a little village called Villiers-Bretonneux. It was a beautifully kept lawn cemetary and contained the headstones of around 50 young men from The AIF who had died during a 1 or 2 day period. We paid our respects by taking the time to read and touch each one of those headstones. What really stood out to us was their age - they were not much more than kids and probably not even old enough to vote when they had given their lives.
2 weeks ago we happened to be visiting the old gaol/museum in Silverton and on the wall in one room was a large framed photograph of a young man proudly dressed in his army uniform just prior to setting off to the great war. When I read the caption it put chills up my spine to know that I was looking at the face at one of those 50 young men whose final resting place was in that little village cemetary back in Villiers-Bretonneux.
I was in the Post Office at 10.45am this morning and the cue was rather long. It got to my turn and hit 11.00am so just stood there quietly. I was asked to move forward but pointed to the clock on the wall. Suddenly the place went quiet. The lady apologised when I moved to counter.
Keep Safe on the roads and out there.
Good onya Chief. Mr D was out on a dragon boat at American River at the eleventh hour. They paused, paddles up to respect the moment.
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Sorry guys on Rememberance Day I got side tracked with what I was doing and it wasn't until 11:20 that it even occurred to me what time it was. I guess I will just have to be content with the fact that I was 20 minutes late and that I had also paid my respects a few days earlier by buying a $10 poppy off a lovely older couple in Nathalia (for Legacy and the support of the families of the fallen).. Aussies remember the sacrifices made in all battles on Anzac Day, Armistace Day, on important aniversaries, by visiting war memorials or battle fields, they may buy a poppy or just choose to do their own thing. Doug I guess by your actions you got everyone to in that PO to be silent but I'm curious did that mean that they had been shamed into it or had they genuinely forgotten what time it was and were grateful to you for reminding them ?
