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Riding out there on Sunday , getting dusty in here already ......
They were on the local BBC news last night, and there are other, similar art installations around as well, outline statues, clear Perspex silhouettes of just a head and shoulders mounted on church pews. Very effective and emotional, a tangible way of representing the missing.
The gravestones are art enough for me. Don't need any other reminder of that obscenity.
They work very very well 😢
I saw the Bristol installation, but this is even bigger. To see the number of fallen at the Somme represented like this is almost too much to take in. FWIW, I have one of the Shrouds framed, as a permanent reminder.
A friend of mine created this with a Garden rake at Barry.
Been some amazing artwork on the beaches. Loads of people on the cliffs as we cycled past this morning.
My late uncle gave me some memorial medals for the first war a while ago - daughter is taking them to scholl tomorrow for show and tell. She seems amazed they are 100 years old. Saying that, I also found some birth certs etc. from 1880 in the same envelope and a certificate sating my great grandmother could offically leave school at 13 to go and work. Times have changed, thankfully.
We went to Ynyslas today in Remembrance, and to join in with the Pages of the Sea event. Locally it was to commemorate Richard Davies. He drowned when his ship was torpedoed.
There has been talk, murmurings and musings that there will be less and less people commemorating the Armistice. From where we sat, and then stood to applaud I'd say that we need not overly worry. All ages were present and paid due respect. White poppies, red poppies obviously too. My 21y.o son was so apologetic when his poppy blew away.
And to the kids who helped make the sand images; Well Done, respect to you.