What a wonderful Remembrance Day we have had! We started off by heading over to the Imperial War Museum and attended a Remembrance Day Ceremony there. They had a bugler play the Last Post followed by 2 minutes silence and then a musical and poetry performance which was very moving.
Outside the museum they had a lovely cascading stream of lovely ceramic poppies. It was quite stunning.
We had a good spot upstairs to watch the ceremony
Just near where we were standing was a V2 rocket which was used by the Germans to drop bombs, but then was later developed to take satellites into space. Bill's father Jim went to London in 1947 to learn about telemetry from these rockets, so it was a rather significant place to be.
Me and the poppies
Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, we spent a couple of hours here just soaking up the atmosphere
In the afternoon we went to see the Peter Jackson Documentary- They Shall Not Grow Old, then we went to Hyde Park Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and saw a musical and spoken performance titled Voices of the Great War- it was excellent and a great way to finish our Remembrance Day.
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