#national remembrance

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Built to honour the fallen of The Great War, Canada's War Memorial was unveiled by King George VI & Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa during the Royal Tour of 1939.. three months before the outbreak of WWII.

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King Charles III and The Prince of Wales attend the National Service of Remembrance at The Cenotaph in London, England -November 12th 2023.

[witchpuppies]

(via GIPHY) The Queen and Princess of Wales at  The National Service of Remembrance.  12/11/2023

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NaPoWriMo Vol. 3, 17.24.24 “Speak My Name"

I am held together by strands of fading whispers Even now, they rattle through the house I call home Shaking shutters, like a summer’s evening breeze Sifting flesh from sinew and bone as a prospector’s sieve Whispers, that cling like chiffon to wet skin Billowing in the fading twilight that stitches day to night Fragile is the hour upon which I inhabit Anxious for the push or tug that divests me of this secret Every word a suture in the wound of my person Whilst wind still parts living lips – I – am immortal Only breath, gives me life Kiss me, blow me away, and I will soar as a dandelion tuft I am held together by so little a thing As fragile as a juvenile promise Sewn of a slew of them to see me standing It is my duty to see those fades return anew

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The 2023 National Service Of Remembrance At The Cenotaph

King Charles III, Prince William, Queen Camilla, Catherine, Princess of Wales, Princess Anne, and Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, during the National Service of Remembrance at The Cenotaph on 12 November 2023 in London, England.

Every year, members of the British Royal family join politicians, veterans and members of the public to remember those who have died in combat.

📸: Tim Rooke / Pool / Samir Hussein / WireImage

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On April 15th, National Titanic Remembrance Day remembers the lives lost when the Titanic sank into the North Atlantic's icy waters in 1912. We remember the more than 1,500 people who died that day. Cobh, Ireland was Titanic’s last port of call.

📸 by Barry Butler Photography

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Clark takes Bruce to Kandor with him to celebrate Krypton Day together.

World's Finest #159

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Photos from today’s NASA Day of Remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and friends and family of our fallen astronauts gathered at the Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia memorials to remember the crews.

[thelofian]

Deceiving Daily Booster Table (TTCC DBT) for 2024-04-15 (Week 16), 🚢 Titanic Remembrance Day | 🧾 Tax Day | 👕 National Laundry Day

I'M FINALLY BACK, took a hiatus

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since it's Holocaust remembrance day today, and a lot of locations mentioned in stories and articles are polish, i just wanna share some pronounciations for stuff:

it's not warsaw, it's Warszawa

it's not pronounced kra-cow, it's pronounced Kra-cov

what used to be auschwitz is now oświęcim.

one fifth of the polish pre-war population was killed over the course of world war 2, the majority of which were polish jews.

please at least have respect for our language and our cities.

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The Princess of Wales on a balcony overlooking the Cenotaph on Whitehall in London on Sunday 13th November 2022, where she watched as King Charles III led the nation at the Service of Remembrance for the first time as monarch.

[thewales-family]

The Prince of Wales attends the National Service of Remembrance at The Cenotaph in London, England -November 12th 2023.

[witchpuppies]

(via GIPHY) King Charles III led the National Service of Remembrance.

12/11/2023

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

By JENNIFER PELTZ

September 11, 2023

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are looking back on the horror and legacy of 9/11, gathering Monday at memorials, firehouses, city halls and elsewhere to observe the 22nd anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.

Commemorations stretch from the attack sites — at New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania — to Alaska and beyond.

President Joe Biden is due at a ceremony on a military base in Anchorage.

His visit, en route to Washington, D.C., from a trip to India and Vietnam, is a reminder that the impact of 9/11 was felt in every corner of the nation, however remote.

The hijacked plane attacks claimed nearly 3,000 lives and reshaped American foreign policy and domestic fears.

"On that day, we were one country, one nation, one people, just like it should be. That was the feeling — that everyone came together and did what we could, where we were at, to try to help,” said Eddie Ferguson, the fire-rescue chief in Virginia’s Goochland County.

It’s more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the Pentagon and more than three times as far from New York.

But a sense of connection is enshrined in a local memorial incorporating steel from the World Trade Center’s destroyed twin towers.

The predominantly rural county of 25,000 people holds not just one but two anniversary commemorations: a morning service focused on first responders and an evening ceremony honoring all the victims.

Other communities across the country pay tribute with moments of silence, tolling bells, candlelight vigils and other activities.

In Columbus, Indiana, 911 dispatchers broadcast a remembrance message to police, fire and EMS radios throughout the 50,000-person city, which also holds a public memorial ceremony.

Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts raise and lower the flag at a commemoration in Fenton, Missouri, where a “Heroes Memorial” includes a piece of World Trade Center steel and a plaque honoring 9/11 victim Jessica Leigh Sachs.

Some of her relatives live in the St. Louis suburb of 4,000 residents.

“We’re just a little bitty community,” said Mayor Joe Maurath, "but it’s important for us to continue to remember these events. Not just 9/11, but all of the events that make us free.”

New Jersey’s Monmouth County, which was home to some 9/11 victims, made Sept. 11 a holiday this year for county employees so they could attend commemorations.

As another way of marking the anniversary, many Americans do volunteer work on what Congress has designated both Patriot Day and a National Day of Service and Remembrance.

At ground zero, Vice President Kamala Harris is due to join the ceremony on the National September 11 Memorial & Museum plaza.

The event will not feature remarks from political figures, instead giving the podium to victims’ relatives for an hourslong reading of the names of the dead.

James Giaccone signed up to read again this year in memory of his brother, Joseph Giaccone, 43. The family attends the ceremony every year to hear Joseph’s name.

“If their name is spoken out loud, they don’t disappear,” James Giaccone said in a recent interview.

The commemoration is crucial to him.

“I hope I never see the day when they minimize this,” he said. “It’s a day that changed history.”

Biden, a Democrat, will be the first president to commemorate Sept. 11 in Alaska, or anywhere in the western U.S.

He and his predecessors have gone to one or another of the attack sites in most years, though Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Barack Obama each marked the anniversary on the White House lawn at times.

Obama followed one of those observances by recognizing the military with a visit to Fort Meade in Maryland.

First lady Jill Biden is due to lay a wreath at the 9/11 memorial at the Pentagon.

In Pennsylvania, where one of the hijacked jets crashed after passengers tried to storm the cockpit, a remembrance and wreath-laying is scheduled at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Stoystown operated by the National Park Service.

Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is expected to attend the ceremony.

The memorial site will offer a new educational video, virtual tour and other materials for teachers to use in classrooms.

Educators with a total of more than 10,000 students have registered for access to the free “National Day of Learning” program, which will be available through the fall, organizers say.

“We need to get the word out to the next generation,” said memorial spokesperson Katherine Hostetler, a National Park Service ranger.