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Poppy day

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Deanna

Deanna Report 7 Nov 2009 11:43

What a very sad coincidence Jannetta.
A very poignant day for you and yours then, 11/11.... of any year.
Deanna X

jannetta

jannetta Report 7 Nov 2009 11:19

HI all,
My grandparents married on 11.11.1911 and my mother their only child passed away last year on 11.11., so it is a bigger significence this year for me than ever. I have had a poppy engraved on her headstone, to mark the day.

I live not far from Wooten Bassett, and on the day that I visited my mother at the Chappel of rest there, more of our lads were being brought home, but it was all too much and I could not stay to watch them passing.

Jannetta