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[Fritz Kempf]

[stijn]

Denk niet dat ze ooit van van uur zouden veranderen
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[Fritz Kempf]

[Annabel]

Volgens deze link is het gewoon om 20.00 http://www.greatwar.co.uk/events/menin-gate-last-post-ceremony.htm

[Fritz Kempf]

[Annabel]

Wellicht gingen ze uit van Engelse tijd, die loopt een uur voor op Europese tijd.

[Magneet]

[Magneet]

Hier zie ik ook nine o clock voorbijkomen

http://www.kinnethmont.co.uk/1914-1918_files/chas-gray-savy/1929-pilgrimage.htm

( ctrl+f en dan nine doen)

hier ook : http://www.wo1.be/eng/geschiedenis/gastbijdragen/lastpost.htm

google maar op last post ypres nine o clock

[Annabel]

[Red Roses]

Magneet:

Die kerels komen altijd wat achter. Not the nine o'clock news, bepaald...
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[Annabel]

Ik vond wel dit stukje, misschien werpt dat enig licht:

Just how the concept of the remembrance silence was adapted by the League to become an essential feature of League functions, and particularly the nine o'clock ceremony is not clear. Some members have tried to explain the League's nine o'clock ritual in terms of the nightly eight o'clock ceremony at the Menin Gate in Belgium. An extract from a 1980 edition of The Thirty-niner, published in the Highgate sub-branch newsletter in 1981, sought an explanation in the chiming of the bells of Big Ben in London at nine o'clock each evening. According to this report, the practice of silencing BBC radio transmissions while Big Ben chimed nine began in November 1940 'as a propaganda symbol to free men in the captive nations of the world. Moreover, this account has it that the then chairman of the Big Ben Council which introduced the practice had been influenced by a fellow officer who, in a premonition of his own death in a World War I battle, had asked on behalf of the dead, 'We will help you spiritually … Lend us a moment of your time each day and by your silence give us our opportunity, the power of silence is greater than you know.'

http://www.rslwahq.org.au/About-the-RSL/Useful-Information/The-2-Minute-Silence.aspx

[Red Roses]

Plus, niet te vergeten: het mooie boek van Dominiek Dendooven Menenpoort / Menin Gate (uitg. Klaproos, denk ik).
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'Meine gute Mutter, (...) seid ohne Sorge: ich trage die Fahne,
habt mich lieb: Ich trage die Fahne' (R.M.Rilke)