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The Yangtze Incident Memorial
From Wiki:
The Amethyst Incident, also known as the Yangtze Incident, in 1949 involved the British Royal Navy ship HMS Amethyst being trapped on the Yangtze River for three months, during the Chinese Civil War.
About the Memorial:
The circular planting of 46 Chinese euonymus plants commemorates each life lost during the Yangtze incident in China in 1949.
A plaque alongside the memorial tells the full [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 30th 2014
Filed under Holidays, Salisbury 2014
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
It is the mind that creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
George Gissing (1857 – 1903)
22 Comments CherryPie on Jul 13th 2014
Filed under Heritage
Poppies and Remembrance
It is my turn at Vision & Verb today. I am reflecting on the upcoming anniversary of WW1 and the series of events that are planned to commemorate the occasion.
2 Comments CherryPie on Jan 23rd 2014
Filed under This & That
At the Going Down of the Sun…
…and in the morning, we will remember them.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 11th 2013
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, York 2010
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
…to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
10 Comments CherryPie on Jun 9th 2013
Filed under Holidays, Malham 2011, Out & About
Lest We Forget
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Laurence Binyon
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 11th 2012
