Remembering those who came back injured

1. Remembering those who came back injured

2. This week many of you will be wearing a poppy. The poppy is a symbol of Remembrance, dating back to the First World War. 

3. The poppy grew on the battlefields of Western Europe when nothing else seemed to survive, so for the soldiers fighting it became a symbol of hope. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-616334/Growing-demand-Battlefield-tours.html http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/

4. During the War, nearly 900,000 British servicemen were killed. One and a quarter million were disabled  and 279.000 widows and 380,000 orphans were created.  • There was no welfare state, so social security or housing benefit or tax credits and many men and their families faced destitution. The Earl Haig Fund Scotland, now known as Poppyscotland, was set up with the purpose of helping those men and those families.  http://www.poppyscotland.org.uk/learning/public/media/view/43-a-poppy-s-point-of-view http://www.worldwar1postcards.com/real-photographic-ww1-postcards.php

5. To raise money to do help ex-servicemen and their families, the poppy was sold and this  vital work still continues today, helping to support men and women injured through conflict from  the Second World War to more recent wars such Afghanistan and Iraq.  http://www.poppyscotland.org.uk/learning/public/media/view/33-poppyscotland-case-study-who-we-help-stuart-proudfoot https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwiCyYrp_OXMAhWOF8AKHTMHAvMQjxwIAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-2109429%2FA-dirty-war-British-soldiers-shot-dead-enemy-troops-waving-white-flag-Argentinian-prisoners-bayoneted-cold-blood-An-ex-Para-tells-horrors-Falklands.html&bvm=bv.122448493,d.ZGg&psig=AFQjCNFrnAgvwBVQmxorsjvx49pUuwzvAw&ust=1463741594724660 https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e5/2d/6e/e52d6e46a3e28723e744930dfd07ab46.jpg http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01451/injured_1451395c.jpg http://images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/secondary/66566.jpg http://cryptome.org/info/im01/pict362.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/87/b0/8f/87b08f9d47eca67068ad4c75edef5a75.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/13/article-2419814-1BCB0733000005DC-203_964x492.jpg Afghanistan War Iraq War WW2 WW1 Falklands War http:// So what does Remembrance mean?

6. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168995/Zulu-battalion-17-units-cut-Army-numbers-hit-lowest-level-Napoleonic-Wars.htmlhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168995/Zulu-battalion-17-units-cut-Army-numbers-hit-lowest-level-Napoleonic-Wars.html http://www.express.co.uk/news/world-war-1/466382/Scotland-the-brave-Tough-kilties-battled-for-Britain-in-WWI http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/allied/regiment.php?pid=1488 https://www.pinterest.com/pin/511580838894345600/ • When you wear a poppy you are remembering men like Stuart and those serving today, as well as remembering those who have served in the last 100 years or more.  Moment of reflection: When we wear a poppy we are part of a tradition of remembering and helping that has lasted for 100 years. Our support is just as important today as it was in the past, just as it is still important to work for peace. 

7. The Legless Man   (The Dark Side)  My mind goes back to Fumin Wood, and how we stuck it out, Eight days of hunger, thirst and cold, mowed down by steel and flame;  Waist-deep in mud and mad with woe, with dead men all about, We fought like fiends and waited for relief that never came. Eight days and nights they rolled on us in battle-frenzied mass!  "Debout les morts!" We hurled them back. By God! they did not pass.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25626530

8. The Legless Man   (The Dark Side)  They pinned two medals on my chest, a yellow and a brown,  And lovely ladies made me blush, such pretty words they said.  I felt a cheerful man, almost, until my eyes went down,  And there I saw the blankets - how they sagged upon my bed.  And then again I drank the cup of sorrow to the dregs:  Oh, they can keep their medals if they give me back my legs.  http://www.henkimaa.com/2010/04/06/disabled-by-wilfred-owen/

9. The Legless Man   (The Dark Side)  I think of how I used to run and leap and kick the ball,  and ride and dance and climb the hills and frolic in the sea;  and all the thousand things that now I'll never do at all. . . .  Mon Dieu! there's nothing left in life, it often seems to me. And as the nurses lift me up and strap me in my chair, if they would chloroform me off, by God I wouldn't care.  http://www.openuniversity.edu/news/news/football-in-world-war-1-photo-gallery

10. The Legless Man   (The Dark Side)  Ah yes! we're "heroes all" to-day - they point to us with pride;  To-day their hearts go out to us, the tears are in their eyes!  But wait a bit; to-morrow they will blindly look aside;  No more they'll talk of what they owe, the dues of sacrifice  (One hates to be reminded of an everlasting debt). It's all in human nature. Ah! the world will soon forget.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2445626/Incredible-bravery-WWI-tank-crew-survived-72-hours-bombarded-Germans-side.html

11. The Legless Man   (The Dark Side)  My mind goes back to where I lay wound-rotted on the plain,  And ate the muddy mangold roots, and drank the drops of dew,  And dragged myself for miles and miles when every move was pain, And over me the carrion-crows were retching as they flew. Oh, ere I closed my eyes and stuck my rifle in the air. I wish that those who picked me up had passed and left me there.  http://spartacus-educational.com/FWWstretcher.htm

12. http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/robert-servicehttp://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/robert-service Robert Service 1874 - 1958 Robert Service was born in Preston, raised in Scotland, attending Hillhead School in Glasgow. He emigrated to Canada by the age of 22. Too old at 41 for active service when war was declared, he tried to join the Seaforth Highlanders, only to be turned down on medical grounds.  From 1915, he served as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross.