where are the bad comments? That said, great performance nonetheless.

Thank you for this , it was beautiful to watch. Since I was newborn I’ve been to the Menin Gate for November the 11th until I got ill a few years ago. My godfather and dad were the ones to first start dropping the poppies and he came up with the Rembella and we would walk in the parade every year with the umbrellas up ❤

Please tell me the title of the song you played. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

Thank you for your service lad. You done us proud 👏👏👏

Thank you!

Me too 2021 :(

Each day, every day. For you and for us all.

You're a Walter Mitty

Honi soi que mal y pense. Honour and duty, brother.

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Well said Michael Culpepper. I salute you and all firefighters all over the world. Many people know that today's firefighters do more than just extinguish a fire. Thank you for your services!

Hi Michael, I had to read your post twice having be rather shocked by the statements & personal observations you made in your 4th Sentence. We all must view the World from our own specific point of reference, therefore I cannot comment on your personal observations or experience, but (thankfully) I have never been witness to such observations, they being quite alien to me. In recent years, as the generation that experienced WW2 (either in the fighting directly or being bombed daily) have all but passed on (as indeed those of WW1) , the "Commonwealth's Poppy-Day Remembrance" and the meaning behind it, seems to be growing in awareness in the very young due to a combination of the efforts of the British Legion to continue the Act of Remembrance and in primary schools, via their teachers. In the UK, (and has been forever(?) in Australia & New Zealand) at 1100 hrs on 11/11, it is becoming increasingly common in public spaces like big Department Stores, Railway Stations & Air Ports etc to come to a halt, via the Public Address System, for the "2 minute silence". It would indeed by sad if your own stated observations and experiences were general. As a matter of Historical note, The Menin Gate is a very special place in that it is where Commonwealth Nationals be it, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, South, West & East Africans, Indians, British etc., can come and see the name of "their" Family member carved into the walls of the Gate, they being Listed as "missing" or "unknown", with no grave anywhere, from the conflict in the immediate vicinity of the Ypres Salient. As a matter of interest, I am sure you must have your own National Official Remembrance Ceremony but this video is the UK's Annual Festival of Remembrance 2018 to commemorate 100 years since the Armistice in 1918, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kK91hMSc3sDYlH0.html, where it continually reminds British people of the sacrifice & loss made by the collective peoples of the Commonwealth through the 4 years of WW1, and then only twenty years later, during another four years of WW2. It's over 90 mins long, but I think worth watching, for no other reason than to show perspectives on Remembrance from a different viewing position, not better, not worse, but just different. My respects to you.

please play the Dark island as your lament

Been twice as two family names there. Wonderful ceremony and very moving. Those who think otherwise have no soul.

We went years ago now, with my old English teacher on a school trip. Very moving.

Do you know why they carry out this ceremony? They do so to respect the ANZACs. It's mutual.

Tango6nf Yeah I went when I was a serving member of the British Army of the Rhine. We had 55,000 troops throughout Germany at that time. On the Menin Gate there are that many names with no known grave. What a sobering thought. I am learning to play the pipes and my ambition is to play Flowers of the Forest here one day

@@EinMagillaGorilla This is not correct; it is a memorial to 54,896 British Empire missing including 40,244 British & Irish 6983 Candians 6918 Australians 564 South Africans 414 Indians 6 West Indians No Newfoundlanders or New Zealanders. But you are correct about the mutual respect.

When you saw it was it dark? The atmosphere is so much better like that rather than in this video, where it is bright.

As the going bown of the anb in the morning

That looks way too bright for 8pm, even in the middle of the summer, though

@@mattthegamerhongkong6948 trust me during early summer it only really gets dark here around 10pm

When they've reached 54587 times they can hang up their bugles.

for the coming 400 + years the last post must be held until every soldier on those walls is honored, let us hope that we wil remember not to kill eachother in the meantime

@@istoppedcaring6209 en ook de 42.000 BELGEN(militairen) die er gestorven zijn in de first W.W. walen en vlamingen zij aan zij, Neven Roberto klein zoon oudstrijder first W.W.

L.V.B you post an interesting comment with which I totally concur.

They play the song every day but bc of covid they can’t anymore

@@istoppedcaring6209 Question: how does it make it 400+ years. The walls include about 55.000 names +- which makes 140-150 years if every soldier on this wall is remembered every day. I was wondering if i miss something here because it sounds interesting to me

we will NEVER!!!

jelle oomen Their leader in the EU couldn't care less!

@@bobbythompson3544.... Sod the EU, bunch of corrupt bureaucratic @$$wipes

@@bobbythompson3544 i am from belgium. and i will never forget.

@@cnoc500 to you are alway s good for everyone???sir Cnoc500

and hope they never have to face them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Skirt? It’s a kilt

The kilt, Scotland's national dress, is very beautiful. Ignorant people should find out about it before passing disparaging remarks. Or maybe they're just juvenile, and haven't a clue. Even during the war, German army soldiers feared facing those regiments, they called them, " the ladies from hell". It appears your class mates are juvenile and immature.

@@johngray8606 Sad but true John.: we live in dark times. Take care my friend.

@@elainsmith7711 these men are Heroes and never be forgotten nu ancestors are also combattants of ww1

Wru

Thanks

Thank you

My great-grandfather fell, and is buried, in Baghdad. Although a marked grave, access is impossible. Got him a plaque on the Lochnagar Crater walkway to compensate.

@@cnoc500 Maybe some day in the future you will be able to visit. I found the experience very moving

I’m interested, why is access impossible?

Respect from Brazil

You're uncle was so young may he rest in peace

As an American with genealogy that goes back to Scottish Lowlander or Border Revivers Clan, I am sure your where Brilliant with Songs you played. flowers of the Forrest I have only heard from every accomplished Bagpipers. Your a real credit to your Family and Clan.

Too many names without a grave, and too many stones without a name. In America these we refer to as known unto God.

respect is not taught as it were when I was a kid. Those kids probably don't stand when someone important enters their class rooms.

@@HeavenCanWait7-333*Everyone disliked that*

KZfaq counts it as a dislike when someone chooses 'not interested' on videos that pop up in the recommended feed. Most of them don't even know they're disliking a video when they do it.

Those who gave a thumbs down are mindless and selfish. If they were the civilian victims of war they would appreciate life more.

Regrettably, not All who fell. The Menin Gate is only for those Commonwealth Soldiers ( the British included) from the Ypres Salient of WW1 who have no known individual marked grave and provides their descendants with a place of pilgrimage to go to see their relatives name carved into it's walls. The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, located in Westminster Abbey in London, is the Commonwealth's "Collective Grave" for it's War Dead. The Main "tribute to the fallen", as you put it, is probably the Commonwealth Festival of Remembrance from the Royal Albert Hall in London and is a quintessentially British "Ceremony of Remembrance" embracing Military Muster, Singing, Poetry Recitals, Personal Reminiscences and culminating in a short Religious Service of Remembrance. This video is the 100th Anniversary one to commemorate the end of WW1, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kK91hMSc3sDYlH0.html and gives an idea of how the British do this type of thing. This Festival precedes the Cenotaph Ceremony the next day when the High Commissioners representing many of the Commonwealth's 53 Member Nations lay a wreath to Commemorate their own war dead, and those of the smaller Member Nations they are representing. I hope this puts some context to your post.

A moving ceremony.

Thank you

Thank you 😊

Respect! mate👍

Robert Garside cameronians best regiment ever

My dad was a Cameronian. He fought in WWII in Burma and also served in India, Palestine and Egypt.

Robert Garside a good man then

Robert Garside, Lest we forget everyone else who passed ❤️

Thanks

Thank you

Belgian youth clean and restore graves of WWI and WWII soldiers in Belgium so that statement doesn't fully hold up.

Thank you

Thanks

As a Belgian replying to you here. Yes they do. Through any weather condition the last post is held. Followed by the poem: "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old .We shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning ,We will remember them." Also when the remains of a soldier are found during research on Flanders Fields, a ceremonial funeral will be organised in which a similar tribute will be held. (excuse me for my english)

Thank you