American Reacts King Charles Leads Remembrance Day Service at The Cenotaph 

I was one of the veterans marching on Sunday….

THANK YOU SO MUCH Connor for reacting to this. MUCH respect to you - it's greatly appreciated. Your uncle is in our thoughts today too. Love from the UK

Hello Connor, you might not realise it, but you have just made the most enormous contribution to the process of Anglo-American Relations! The attention that you have just paid to this lengthy ceremony, the effort you put into maintaining your concentration - which we know is often a challenge for reasons that are absolutely nothing to do with your choice; indicate a depth of respect for these traditions, that really are quite a big deal in the UK, that is quire remarkable for a foreign national of your age. Without doubt, you possess levels of maturity that are far beyond your years... I can only hope that you will use this praise and that of others, to give yourself the huge pat on the back that you certainly deserve. You have just ceased to be A. N. Other American Reactor on RU-vid, and begun to be Connor, our lovely friend!

Just realised the dear Duke of Kent wasn’t there for the first time. Bless him him ,he’ ll feel it now 87 he’s been there since a very young man . The dear Queens supporter at the trooping and this service after the death of Philip.

The tune played at 15:16 is Nimrod, by Elgar an incredibly poignant piece played every year and really calls the nation to stand a while and remember.

Elgars Nimrod gets me everytime 😢. Thanks connor for being respectful its appreciated .

I can't quite believe that you spent so much of your time watching another countries (lengthy) ceremony respecting the fallen. It speaks volumes about your desire to understand the world and I thank you for showing so much respect... very much.

Great video, respect from Northern Ireland. Most of my family served in both WW1 and WW2, in the British Navy and Army, and the stories and documents I discovered growing up, just made me feel so small amongst these giants of my ancestry. They really make you feel humble.

For me, the important, emotional moment, is the walk past of the veterans, remembering my father, his brothers, his father, who all fought in the first and second world wars. They all survived but one of my mother's uncles died in training (1916) and two of the sons of her mother's aunts one in France and one on HMS Hood.

How Refreshing it Is to see a Young Man take such interest in Our Remembrance Day Services.. may it always stay with with huge Respect to you from an Old Guy In the Uk.

I think the most incredible thing about this is how amazing the musicians play their instruments

I've been watching your reactions for a while now, and enjoy many of them. I'm a 50yrs of age, born and bred in London, East London, I love my country's' history, it's achievements, and it's faults, so I'm a very patriotic Englishman, old school type, and watching someone knowing what I have learned over the decades, something that has made me extremely knowledgeable about people, and you're a decent kid, without a doubt, very likable, very respectful, a honest to goodness American, my kinda upstanding young man, something we need much much more of in our Western, even worldwide societies. Keep it up mate.

I think even more moving than this are the ceremonies in towns and villages that happen all over the country. In our little village, people gather round the war memorial where, as part of the service, all the names of those from village who died are read out.

Big Ben striking the hour in silence is chilling.

The second piece of music was Heart of Oak, the music for the Royal Navy. Nothing more poignant than pipes and drums for me, but the RMs playing the Last Post always brings tears. Seeing the Bailiwick of Jersey reminds me about how my ancestors suffered under Nazi occupation. It is also an eye opener in seeing so many countries represented that were part of the British Empire and whose people helped Britain in both World Wars. Lovely to see Ukraine remembered here too. I think it is great that a young man, such as yourself, Connor, witnesses this tremendous British tradition of remembrance.

I am a veteran and was marching past at the Cenotaph on Sunday for the first time. Very humbling experience

Thank you Connor for watching this video with so much respect, ♥️ it means so much to me as a Brit. Also condolences for the loss of your brave Gt Uncle .

Little known fact is that the Poppy was first brought to public attention by an American Lady, Moina Michael, who was struck by the images from British lines where in all the destruction these flowers grew and especially by John McCrae's poem 'In Flanders Fields'. In fact it was the American Legion that first adopted the Poppy as a symbol of remembrance in 1921. However it was a French Lady, Anna Guérin, who first got 'Poppy Days' going as fundraisers in the USA in 1920. She brought the idea to the UK and the British Legion adopted the Poppy and fundraising in 1922.

I’ve been watching this annual ceremony virtually my entire life, having an RAF father along with the first television in our street - bought specifically to watch the Queen’s Coronation in 1953 when I was six years old. Nothing ever changes about the Remembrance Sunday service and the veterans march past. It’s an amazing and constant reminder of our history. Thank you for posting and for watching it with me this year. 😊

God Save The King. Glory to the Heroes.

I worked next to one of the favourite pubs by Whitehall......couldn't get my lunch sandwich for about 3 weeks before as I was hold up to be told all their amazing stories and memories....what a privilege! And what fun!!!! Love all these precious people!!

Respect to all veterans 🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💪 and respect to you Conner for this upload 👍

15:55 I am in my eighties, I think of all who lost their lives in the many wars and conflicts that have been in my lifetime. I think of my grandmother who lost her husband ,and five brothers. One brother was 15 he had lied about his age. I do not forget the soldiers and families of the enemies. Often manipulated by the power hungry, whipping their people up into cruel frenzies. Yes mad evil has to be contested and respect to all who take part in doing so. The music is so important it speaks straight to the heart and memory. Thanks to all who took part in this ceremony and also to you for posting this.

Thank you Love ❤️ for the respect and attention you payed to this ceremony. ❤❤❤ thank You. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🇺🇸🙏❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸🙏❤️

You may remember Men of Halech from the film Zulu

Extremely proud of the way we remember the fallen of all conflicts since ww1 to the present day,a very solemn day and we owe them everything

Thank you, Connor. God bless you for this.

The narrator is His Excellency the Governor of Edinburgh Castle, Major General Alastair Bruce. ❤❤

Band leader is from the Welsh Guards

Thank you for this very respectful video. I really appreciated it. ❤

I always liked the fact that both political parties show a unified front in this, give me slight hope

Thank you Connor, I listened it live on the Radio yesterday but it was great to see the pictures and hear your comments (I think you said just: what more could you add).

It is touching to see your reaction filled with empathy and respect for Remembrance Day.

Just love your respectful reactions to solemn celebrations such as this one. Thank you so much!

Love ❤️ you really did us all proud, with compassion. I will alway remember, you young gentleman, for showing the Pride of the fallen. From me, God Bless you, young Man. Hopefully you won’t be involved in anything your come mating this Day. May God Bless you Love and keep you and all your family and friends safe.🙏🇬🇧🙏🇬🇧 God Bless you love. ❤️🙏😝❤️🙏🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️

Glad you mentioned your Great uncle, now he’s in my thoughts too 😊

The Armistice day wording is LEST WE FORGET. In every city, town and village across the UK there is a War Memorial inscribed with the names of every service person from that parish who has lost their life from The Gtrest War onwards. Each one has a ceremony on 11/11 to remember their sacrifice.

Thank you Love 💕 for showing this. Words like Thanks don’t seem enough. But I personally thank you Love from the bottom of my Heart. God Bless you Love ❤️ ❤

Exactly love, the Veterans are running out. ❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸

I have too say my love, you were actually listening too what was going on. There’s not many chaps your age would do that Love. You’ve done America 🇺🇸 and UK 🇬🇧, extremely proud of you love. 🇺🇸🙏❤️🇬🇧💕💕

You literally watched the whole thing. Thank You Love ❤❤❤❤❤

We all pay our respects the same in every Town In the UK .every village.. everyone pays their respects to the Fallen.❤March lay poppies "lest we forget"

If you were about to ask about the Soldier dressed in Gold, he is a Drum Major,each Guards Regiment has thier own Drum Major who's Uniform dates back to Henry llV, i think Drum Majors are incharge of the Drum section.

Please watch the remembrance concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

Thank you Connor, for watching the Cenataph March past . It’s always a important day for remembrance in the UK

Thank you Conner for your appreciation your a true gent

That my Love ❤ was very well said. Your silence was noted. In fact I don’t think you moved or spoke. Love what you’ve just done and not said. That’s the greatest tribute, you can give anyone. I from my HEART ❤️ thank you for this post. Far too many people lost there lives. Ok, it was for freedom . and Freedom they got. It’s so flipping hard to quantify, how do you put that into words???? After the loss of lives???? 😢😢😢😮😮😮😢😢😢😮😮😮❤❤❤❤

Many thanks for your kind respect.

Maybe one year we should have some American vets over to join in our memorial celebrating the glorious dead

So agree sir as we are so lucky not to have to experience that feeling of going to war as your great uncle experienced on Omaha Beach may he rest in peace.

My great-grandfather fought in Gallipoli and western Europe in the New Zealand expeditionary force , in the name of King. So ANZAC day has a lot of meaning to me and my family. Thank you, Connor.

You’ve done a lovely job Love. If you can post this to Natasha and Debbie, I don’t know how too do it, sorry. I know they’d love ❤️ too see this. As they are both military parents and it means so much to them . To if you can pass this on, I’d appreciate it so much. Thanks Love ❤❤❤❤❤

One of the pieces that has always been played at the Remembrance Day Service is ‘Dido's Lament’, from Henry Purcell’s opera ‘Dido and Aeneas’, written in 1688-89. The words by Nahum Tate are evocative and emotional: When I am laid in earth, May my wrongs create no trouble, no trouble in thy breast. Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate. Here sung by Anna Dennis: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--H--Z9UzQYE.html

I've never heard clapping during the laying of the wreaths. That was odd!

ou ask who the four brightly-dressed figures are: there are four regimental bands (now collectively a massed band). Each one has a Drum Major - four bands, for DM's. I can't tell exactly which two regiments of Guards are represented - one being the Irish Guards, and I suspect the other are Welsh Guards - presumably why the pieces of music (following after the arrival of the buglers) were "The Minstrel Boy" (Irish), and "Men of Harlech" (Welsh). There were also Coldstreams present. The monument you ask about is the Cenotaph - the word is from the Greek, meaning "empty tomb" - and if you look carefelly at the top of it you will see what appears to be a coffin, which is empty! Most UK cities have a Cenotaph which is, in essence a war memorial without names on it. Most towns and villages have their own war memorials that usually (but not always) have the names of the lcoal men who perished. The two lines of men (Royal Marines and Royal AIr Force) are buglers who will play the Last Post and Revielle - the 2-Minute silence will take place between the two. They marched onto their positions to "Rule Britannia! and "Hearts of Oak." The bagpipes aare playing "The Skyboat Song" (Scottish). Some of the other pieces are "Oft in the Stilly Night" and "Flowers of the Forest." The final piece is standard at every Rembrance Service at the Cenotaph, and is the famous "Nimrod" Suite by Edward Elgar. All of these musical pieces are reflective of men's thoughts whilst awaiting battle. The frist wreaths are always from the Monarch and Royal Family representing (1) the People, and (2) the armed forces. These are followed by the Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition and members of the Government Cabinet, other political leaders.. These are folllowed by representatives of the Commonwealth Nations - currently 43 with about ten other Independent Colonies (all of them usually in groups - too many to do singly). and former Prime Ministers. The different wreaths are mainly various branches of wartime services, both military and civilian, and the general march-past is by any and all personnel from every branch of the military - some in regimenatl order, others mixed. Incidentally, CIVILIANS NEVER SALUTE! Only uniformed personnel give a salute. Everyone else simply bows their head for a few seconds. To start the march-past, the Royal Irish Regiment (on bagpipes) play "Fare thee Well Inniskillings" - a famous regiment now disbanded but absorbed into the Royal Irish. I hope that this has answered most of your questions.

The Soldier in Gold is a Drum Major,each of the 5 Foot Guards,Grenader,Coldstream,Scots Irish and Welsh all have their own Drum Majors,their uniforms date back to Henry 11V, I think obviously by the name they are in charge of rhe Drum Corps at the head of each Parade

Very well done and respected I'm impressed. So nice to see

My Mothers brother signed on to go and fight in WW1 aged 17 years, very much under age as a lot of them where. and he was killed in action aged 19 years and his body could not be found but I found him with the help of a Belguan young man who takes people to see their Family members who are buried in Belgium present day,. My Uncle was not found until 1925 he had been badly injured after going over the tops of the trenches and was found by some Germans and taken to a German Lazerette ( a field hospital but sadly he died there alongside siomeone from his home town. in 1925 and exhumed and taken to a British Cemetary in Belgiumalongside with the man he was with when they where badly injured. When I was a child and in the town cenbtre where we lived during WW2 if she saw any soldiers she used to pat them on their arm and say "Have you seen my Frank?she never gave up asking them as long as she was alive.

The Veterans' marchpast can take over an hour I think, then they turn into Whitehall Parade Ground and are saluted by one of the Royal Family.

It's amazing as how the RF and the people of the UK respect their military especially those who fell or were injured in protecting their nation. The one thing that really me take notice was when the Queens coffin was brought into and out of Westminster Abbey even that coffin was carried around the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

Re the battle of the Atlantic, the KIA rate for the merchant seamen during ww2 was in the region of 27%, the youngest 14 years and 152 days old, they are still today finding unrecorded merchant navy casualties

Connor, the commentator throughout was the veteran British journalist and newsreader, Alistair Stewart

For me , seeing the final March Past of the veterans and the Associations is very moving.

Just watched this,..Thankyou young man ,..

“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.” D H Lawrence.

Well done Connor !

This is why both world wars should be taught about in school so its never forgotten when there are no more veterans form WW2 left. It was drummed into me by my teachers back in the day and my father and grandfathers who both fought. 60 million plus souls gone in WW2 because of idiots like Putin and that's why we must help Ukraine because if we don't Russia won't stop just like Hitler didnt

My Father was on HMS Formidable in the British Pacific Fleet in WW2 and saw plenty of action.. the Kamikasi attacks and saw many of his crewmen killed.. I have to say he had the most respect for the US all his life, he told me what they went through in the Pacific, they by being a bit naive in the beginning, but earned the victory in the end ..and he respected that

You were captivated, this should never be forgotten. Nice reaction

Thank you so much for a marvellous coverage of this important annual event which means so much to so many, a time of reflection for all, for me of my late father who was a regular soldier before the great war who came through it and went on to be in the home guard in the second I don't know how he manged it with the shocking wounds he received in the great war but he did and he lived well into his eighties, even I am to old to attend this service on his behalf so your coverage is a blessing thank you once again.

I watched it again here..thank you..

Although Dutch it is a tradition in my family to listen to Sir Edward Elgars Nimrod during a funeral service.

Never be Slaves? Let us pray.Thank you so very much.🌹

OMG. The Last Post Gets me every time.especially if its one lone trumpeted. ❤❤❤❤❤

I liked the smile on your face as you watched the Veterans march past Connor. 🙂

Well done Connor

I just love the mass military bands their sound wonderful.

Lest we forget

The day before was the Lord Mayor's of London parade , maybe worth a look. He's American by the way !

Connor you are sooooooooooo respectful and may I SALUTE your Uncle.... BLESS you and your family

Thank you Connor - it was a great and respectful reaction.

Since 1066, the Battle of Hastings, Britain has never been successfully invaded by anyone for longer than 72 hours, for me Land of Hope and Glory, says it all. Since Hastings, this island has been in conflict with someone or other apart from 23 days in total, not just defending or island but other nations as well, world WAR II being the perfect example. Not always for a good reason, often just to protect our income through charges for having our forces stationed in their country. Gibraltar being a prime example 4 miles square, held by us since the fifteenth century.

I do wish they would employ professional people to do the captions, some of the errors are ridiculous. I don't thnk I saw Cenotaph written right once.

The music is absolutely lovely.

There’s not many of them left. ❤❤❤❤❤

great vidio conor very emotional well done thankyou✌

Respect to you young man 🙂

And is in the Welsh Guards

"The Garrison Sargent Major" on this day the most powerful man in the British Armed Forces. Generals beware, because next inline is the Padre, he doesn't mess about.

Well done.

The clapping is cut out on the bbc

noticed that your extended version has disappeared!

Great to watch this but for once I would have watched the BBC full coverage if available? They gave a better explanation of everything going on and it’s history

As a fan of QE2,wondering why are they still laying a wreath on her behalf?...did they used to do same for her father after 1952?...interesting to see Suella Braverman do her last public duty as hhome secretary 🎩

Love you too ❤

Have you done a video on the tomb of our unknown worrier IT'S really intresting

Sir Lindsey does deepest,but briefest,bow of day🎩

That cenotaph has a empty Tomb on the top represents the dead thats never been found well over 2,000,

Magnificent ceremony but I fear the worst is yet to come thanks to our politicians.

If you had drinks with these glorious people they would treat you as kin... a beautiful friend.... Please know it....