00:00 Liverpool City Council's annual remembrance service will take place on
00:04 Sunday 12th of November on the plateau at St. George's Hall. The day
00:08 commemorates a contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian
00:13 service men and women involved in the two world wars and later conflicts. We've
00:18 been on the streets of Liverpool to find out what the day means for you.
00:23 Well it's very, I think it's very sad but I always watch it on the telly, I
00:29 always watch the service of the morning going back to when me dad and me mam was
00:34 alive because me dad used to salute them you know and it's instilled in you
00:41 hasn't it? So yeah I do, I think a lot about it.
00:45 Well I used to come to St. George's Hall as a child because me dad brought us down
00:50 every Remembrance Day because my dad was in the war so he used to take all of us,
00:55 we had five children at that time and me dad always brought us down to St. George's
00:59 Hall and I do think it's a lovely thing. No I mean I don't come to the
01:04 cenotaph because I'll be at church on a Sunday morning. Yeah I mean I haven't got
01:11 me poppy on, I don't usually wear a poppy but I'm all for it. You know they were
01:18 very brave men and women and many of them gave their lives so you know I'm
01:25 pro poppy, I'm British and proud of it. Remembrance Sunday means to me that
01:37 the war years ago my great-grandfather was in the war and he fought in Germany
01:46 and yeah so that's why it's Remembrance Sunday is important to me. I mean like I
01:53 was 80 in April so to me I don't remember the war because I was born
02:01 during that I was I think I was about two and then so
02:07 it's sort of instilled in you doesn't it? Yeah and I do watch it every single year.
02:15 Yeah. Thousands of people are expected to gather on Lime Street for the service
02:21 which has the theme Liverpool remembers and involves faith and community leaders
02:25 together with the armed forces and war veterans. At 11 a.m. the traditional
02:31 firing of the gun will signify the start of the two-minute silence with another
02:35 to mark its conclusion. Following the silence the traditional wreath laying
02:41 and service by key civic military and religious leaders and cadets the parade
02:45 will then march from St. George's Plateau to salute the cenotaph. The Port of
02:50 Liverpool, Cunard and Royal Ivor buildings along with the Liverpool
02:54 Parish Church, St. George's Hall and the Town Hall will be lit up red from Friday
02:58 10th to Sunday the 12th of November to mark the Remembrance weekend.
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