Remembrance Day
Every year on Remembrance day 11 November many of the "bedites" gather in the town to watch a remembrance parade. There are groups such as the local Girls Brigade, and cadets who march through the town, with bands playing commemorative music. There used to be a Second World War Douglas C-47 Skytrain Dakota transport aircraft, and in years previous to that a Spitfire fighter, that scattered remembrance poppy petals over the town, aiming at the war memorial. It was featured on the National TV news on remembrance days, but they were banned on Health and Safety grounds, from low flying over an urban area. Douglas DC-3 Dakotas have since been declared 'unsafe' for passenger transport by the EU, after having been safely in service since the 1930s.
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Famous quotes containing the words remembrance and/or day:
“I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love’s world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 6:9-13.