Rememberance tree.

[LouiseTopp]

This was taken at the Christmas tree festival in Salisbury, this is the remembrance tree for the fallen.

[Marie Hass]

Poignant.

We should always remember.

Marie

[Wavelength]

Very nice...the red thing is disturbing?

[LouiseTopp]

Very nice...the red thing is disturbing?

The red thing is a poppy.

[IzzieK]

And that poppy thingie is the actual remembrance pin the Brits have for the fallen to remember them. Good one.

[Shadowman]

Nicely done.

[LouiseTopp]

Thanks

[george013]

Thanks

Seeing that poppy, you remember the fallen in the "Great War"? I just came back from a weekend visiting the battlefields of the Somme in France.
George

[LouiseTopp]

I have never been there, what's it like?

[george013]

I have never been there, what's it like?

Very impressive. The area is full of British war graveyards. Alle well kept. Small ones and big ones. My friend goes there twice a year when the farmers plough the land searching for things from the Great War. You find all kind: munition, rifles, guns, grenades, even dead bodies. On the graveyards are burrieds the bodies with a name and bodies without a name. On the monument of Thiedval the names of the missing soldiers from the commonwelth are placed: more than 70.000. Only from that battlefield. Subtract from this the amount of the dead bodies without a name and then you have the amount of bodies still in the ground. Sometime some come up.
If you want I can show you some photo's. It's the same subject.
George

[LouiseTopp]

Thanks that's very interesting