Ring of Red M60 and M25 9th November 2014 Remembrance Sunday

appx 880 bikes turned up a lot had pillys so well over a 1000 people.it was an incredible turn out and we were proud to of taken part ...

 

Looked amazing! So gutted I was working! What a turnout!

 

Fixed that for you.

 

And there is something wrong with that why? I didn't do it by the way just curious as to why your arsed what others choose to do..

 

Some people want to show respect, some people want to feel muscles in bus stops.

We all get our kicks from different places....

 

There's a difference between "wanting to show respect" and "wanting to be seen showing respect".
Sadly, most people fall into the 2nd group.

Click here for last years clusterfuck of red

 

i grew up with my grandparents living at there house.my grand father was in the tank regiments and lost both legs at the knees .so i saw his daily struggle to get by with sub standard prosthetics and red raw stumps that bled daily .so i saw first hand the scars of war that were suffered and relived every day after the war ended .so for me it wasnt just being seen it was taking part and i was reallt proud to be there and to see the support for past and present service personel ..

 

...that is rather sad and cynical in my view - with 8.7m men serving in the WW1 armed forces in total - not including WW2 or more recent conflicts - there are many millions touched by the sacrifices of military service - like a good friend of mine who is now 73 but never knew his father as he never returned from WW2 ...

There are many ways to pay your respects - personally and privately, at a cenotaph, in the pub, in church on a rally - no-on is forced to go - I didn't want to go on the red ring but paid my respects another way - I wouldn't want to question peoples motives or be judgmental or make broad assumptions about people remembering the dead...

 

Why not, just in case someone gets offended?

I can see why you may think it is a sad and cynical view, but when the majority of poppies et al that are worn/ shared on social media are shown to either "support the armed forces" which goes against everything the poppy and remembrance day stands for, or for people to show their peers that "they too can remember".

Sadly this is what has become of the poppy and 11/11.