Lest we forget ........ 11-11 Rememberance day

[shropshire 0]

For all of those that have given their all.... for us. R.I.P


If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[artistcalledian 0]

i observed the 2 minutes silence

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drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

[jraf 0]

At least it seems that you guys know what Nov. 11th stands for!

jraf

Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui.
Muff #3275

[shropshire 0]

<> - meaning what, please?

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[ccowden 0]

Is it called Rememberance Day in England? It is Veterans Day here in the US.

[RhondaLea 3]

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Is it called Rememberance Day in England? It is Veterans Day here in the US.

And a heartfelt thank you to our veterans for everything they've sacrificed on our behalf.

rl

If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

[ccowden 0]

Ok. I just looked at the calendar and see that it is Rememberance Day in Canada and the UK. Which I assume is like our Memorial Day in the US. Today is Veterans Day in the US, which is a day to recognize all men and women who have served in the armed forces. It is not just for remembering the fallen soldiers.

[livendive 8]

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Ok. I just looked at the calendar and see that it is Rememberance Day in Canada and the UK. Which I assume is like our Memorial Day in the US. Today is Veterans Day in the US, which is a day to recognize all men and women who have served in the armed forces. It is not just for remembering the fallen soldiers.

It started out as Armistice Day, celebrating the cease-fire of WWI. It later became Veterans' Day to expand the acknowledgment to vets other than those from WWI. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess Remembrance Day and Veterans' Day are on the same day for a reason.
Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[ccowden 0]

I am sure they are on the same day for a reason. My question was whether or not Rememberance Day was the equivelant of our Memorial Day, which is a day to remember our fallen soldiers. Veteran's Day is a day to remember ALL of our service veterans. It was more a question of what the day was for, and not necessarily what date it fell on.

I wasn't sure if:

Veteran's Day = Rememberance Day
Memorial Day = Rememberance Day
Veteran's Day/Memorial Day = Rememberance Day

[freeflir29 0]

www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Remembrance.html



There's a quick read on it. Thank you to all my fellow verterans.

[ccowden 0]

Ah ha. So, it is most like:

Rememberance Day = Memorial Day

[Frenchy68 0]

Only 6 French WWI soldiers left alive...

"For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

[Frenchy68 0]

Hard to fathom the carnage WWI was...

"For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

[KindredSpirit 0]

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Only 6 French WWI soldiers left alive...

Only 5 Canadian WW1 vetrans alive as well. This was the first year ever that no WW1 vetrans attended the national ceremonies in Ottawa.

"Kicking gravity's ass since 2003!"

[ephrin 0]

It's hard to think about a war we never experienced (thankfully).


Dulce Et Decorum Est. -Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, -
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

[livendive 8]

I like the combination of a few of these references.

From your's...November 11, 1919 in London

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The First Two Minute Silence in London (11th November 1919) as reported in the Manchester Guardian, 12th November 1919.

' The first stroke of eleven produced a magical effect.

The tram cars glided into stillness, motors ceased to cough and fum, and stopped dead, and the mighty-limbed dray horses hunched back upon their loads and stopped also, seeming to do it of their own volition.

Someone took off his hat, and with a nervous hesitancy the rest of the men bowed their heads also. Here and there an old soldier could be detected slipping unconsciously into the posture of 'attention'. An elderly woman, not far away, wiped her eyes, and the man beside her looked white and stern. Everyone stood very still ... The hush deepened. It had spread over the whole city and become so pronounced as to impress one with a sense of audibility. It was a silence which was almost pain ... And the spirit of memory brooded over it all.'

From another one, November 11, 1920 in Paris. An Unknown Soldier of the World War was laid to rest under the Arc de Triomphe.

And then, on November 11, 1921 in Arlington, VA, we interred our own Unknown Soldier the remains of whom had been selected on Memorial Day.

I'm thankful for those who have fought and fallen alongside our men, regardless of which flag they served.

I'm especially grateful for those who served my country before, with, and after me, so thanks Clay, Chris, and all you other vets.

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[freeflir29 0]

http://www.specialops.org/



Jay Faley



Just had to sneek those links into this thread as well. Thanks Jay............buy you a beer when I get there brother.

[jraf 0]

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<> - meaning what, please?

Meaning the official end of WWI.

jraf

Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui.
Muff #3275

[shropshire 0]

<> - Yeap I knew that....... Sorry, I though that you were taking the piss.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[skydiver51 0]

Thank You to everyone who appreciates what was done for them and acknowledges all veterans who didn't make it back and those that did!!!!

To all my brother veterans, Welcome Home!!