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Ben and Owen are wearing some of my Grandad's medals before going to our Remembrance service at the war memorial outside our church.
The medals helped personalize it for them and their behaviour was exemplary. Their Great Grandad would have been proud of them.
Grandad was in the Salvation Army as well as the Regular Army. He was a kind, loving, and good man. He wasn't the hard drinking, hard living,hard partying, bullying type of soldier that we sometimes hear of. He was proof that you don't have to be an unfeeling brute to be a hero.
I wonder how many of that type get medals and mentioned in dispatches. You have to care about others to do the selfless and outstanding feats of bravery.

Ben and Owen are wearing some of my Grandad's medals before going to our Remembrance service at the war memorial outside our church.
The medals helped personalize it for them and their behaviour was exemplary. Their Great Grandad would have been proud of them.
Grandad was in the Salvation Army as well as the Regular Army. He was a kind, loving, and good man. He wasn't the hard drinking, hard living,hard partying, bullying type of soldier that we sometimes hear of. He was proof that you don't have to be an unfeeling brute to be a hero.
I wonder how many of that type get medals and mentioned in dispatches. You have to care about others to do the selfless and outstanding feats of bravery.

I took the boys up to the Lyle Hill in order to watch the firework display (For free), We picked a spot and stood there for 30 minutes.
With 10 minutes to go; The boys had had enough. It was freezing and they wanted to go home. The people around giggled at my poor efforts to persuade them to stay and, Owen's rather more forceful efforts to make us go.
I won the day, and we got some great shots and had a good time but, it was close.
I was especially impressed by the shapes that they could get the fireworks to make. In this case:
A love heart.

Another dawn shot from the Knapps, Kilmacolm, that didn't make the first cut but, since I am not able to get out and shoot. I am rummaging through the archives and doing what I can with what I have.