Remembrance Day Memorial in Folkestone

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Hundreds of poppies have ben placed in Folkestone train station as a tribute to those who lost their lives in the Second World War.   Reported by Maisie Walker.

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00:00The last sighting of home for millions of troops more than a hundred years ago, Folkestone Harbour.

00:06This Sunday we will celebrate Remembrance Day to honour and remember all those who have served and sacrificed their lives during World War II.

00:14For the upcoming Remembrance Weekend, 800 poppies have been installed along the length of harbour station

00:20as a tribute to the estimated 9.7 million troops that passed through Folkestone Harbour during the Great War.

00:28The symbol of the poppy is well known and well established. It carries a wealth of history and meaning with it.

00:35The red poppy became a symbol of remembrance after the 1915 poem In Flanders Fields,

00:41which was inspired by the flowers growing on the battlefields of World War I.

00:45I think they're wonderful. In many ways it's a good place for them because these two platforms here,

00:55plus the one next to the quayside, these are platforms that soldiers would have got on the train to go home on

01:02and it's a nice sort of tribute to those who didn't.

01:06I think the display are really, really beautiful, really excellent the way it's been put out,

01:11especially for the remembrance because that's something that needs to be carried on and through for eternity really

01:23because it should never be forgotten what went on and the young boys and women that lost their lives

01:31during two conflicts so that we can walk free and speak freely and live the life we live.

01:37It should never be forgotten.

01:40I think overall, you can never do enough. Overall, I think yes, as long as it's remembered,

01:48I mean particularly on the Sunday Remembrance Day on the 11th, yes, but it must be carried on by everybody,

01:58not just certain people in society. It must be carried on as a nation, a national thing, a nationwide thing.

02:04I think it's vital to keep it going and I think we have successfully kept it going.

02:11I don't see any reason why it should stop.

02:14Though the exhibit ends after Remembrance Sunday, the message of Lest We Forget will continue to resonate

02:19with those in the seaside town from where so many would catch their last glimpse of the county and the country.

02:27Maisie Walker for KMTV, Folkestone.

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