Allan Peeters
Ok so the weather said 90% chance of rain. I was there giving weather reports, and it was not half bad. If we had started early, we might have made it.
We started with handgun and finished that.
Then we went to shotgun and started the round, if we had another half hour, we could have finished that.
Then we could have done the .22 as that was under the afdak. But we decided to give it a miss and go tackle he babble sous.
Then again interesting discussions followed on, much discussed.
So that’s, it the last 3 gun was rained out.
Watch calendar for next year’s 3 gun, normally every alternate month , with the shotgun champs.
Armistice Day
Interesting discussions followed our 3-gun shoot. It was strange coincidence that the discussion centred around our old army days, obviously us old folks who were there during those times. A coincidence I say, because the day before was Armistice Day. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the year 1918. Now this day might not have significance to your millennials, but that was the day the guns fell silent on the first world war “The War to end all Wars “If only it was so. But if you were in the army, it is a significant day. Even in my old Kommando days we held wreath laying ceremonies on that day, even in Sasolburg.
In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE
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 lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
