Well that minute silence was a bit different

[Hants_red]

Thank you. Wasn't that hard was it?

Kind of assumed people knew it as the remembrance poem.

 

[DJH2005]

Kind of assumed people knew it as the remembrance poem.

Remeberence poem yes. "That poem", no.

 

[Mr Jan Yeo]

Was this one:

They will not grow old as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.

At the setting of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

I thought it was great but people were a bit thrown by it and then starting applauding which basically ended the minutes silence too soon. Very well read though.

 

[DJH2005]

It wasn't Flanders Fields, was this one:

They will not grow old as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.

At the setting of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

I thought it was great but people were a bit thrown by it and then starting applauding which basically ended the minutes silence too soon. Very well read though.

If we'd all been able to hear it properly, I'm sure it would have been fine.

As it was, from our location, it just sounded like a c*nt being disrespectful.

Shame really.

 

[Mr Jan Yeo]

If we'd all been able to hear it properly, I'm sure it would have been fine.

As it was, from our location, it just sounded like a c*nt being disrespectful.

Shame really.

Well that's your fault for sitting down

 

[DJH2005]

Well that's your fault for sitting down

Quite possibly Jan. I'll have a word with my maker when I see him next and give him right rollicking.

 

[journeyman]

Was it the same as what happened at Nuneaton last year?

 

[pete_h]

Was this someone on the pitch with a microphone? Or someone in the stands reading the poem unexpectedly?

 

[Northants Grecian]

Yep sounded like the same bloke...was in the flybe and took a moment to realise what he was saying...there were many people who murmured "we will remember them" and the bank applauded his delivery..which led to the slightly bizarre end of minutes silence with crowd clapping...

The heavy debn burr of the speaker didn't help reduce the confusion either...

 

[GrecianLez]

I'm sure Fullsey used to say the poem before the one min silence started.

Because it wasnt read i believe the chap said it.....

The man who shouted "shut your mouth" was a bit out of touch with what was going on

Tada