Remembrance Day
 

I still dont understand why this day isnt a holiday, I have to work so I cant go to any of the memorials. I guess I will catch parts of it on the news.


In Flanders Fields

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.

- John McCrae

I often go out to the memorials, but unfortunately I have to work this year.

I have school today

I don't

Government and banks get it off here, but the private sector still has business as usual. I always that was fucked, too. rolleyes:

If there was any day that should be a stat holiday, it's today.

Lest We Forget.

couldnt agree more. although as a former US bank teller, i really thought it was great. now that i am at a firm, i dont get shit off. if some of you youngsters are looking for a sweet job during highschool, or while in college, i highly recommend being a teller. the pay isnt great, i made 10 bucks an hour, but the hours are awesome. dont have to work sundays, and you get a shitload of random bank days / halmark holidays off.

heres to the veterans and the heroes who have fallen.

Lest We Forget...

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what is remembrance day all about?

what in the shit is this all aboot?

British and Canadian holiday similar to Veterans Day in the US.

Lest we forget

Lest we Forget.

[img]http://www.mod.uk/img/aboutus/history/dday60/salute.jpg[/img]

LEST WE FORGET

rip ww1 veterans annoy:

That's a pretty good hint.

Not really. You could be remembering anything.
"What did I have for breakfast, eh?"

Oh you'd remember that im sure. biggrin:

No, I have enough trouble remembering how many breakfasts Ive had in any given day

Hence the "guzzled breakfasts" list on the fridge door.

nah, too lazy to make one out. Plus, the fridge here is non-magnetic.

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":67938]LEST WE FORGET

rip ww1 veterans annoy:[/quote:67938]There are no more WW1 (Canadian) veterans this year 2005, they have all died.

I was listening to the radio about this guy and his brother rushing Juno beach and the guy told his brother to give them hell cause he was in another boat ahead of him. Well there objective was to rush the beach and keep running and not stop for nothing, the guy was running through the water and saw his brother dead, shot in the heart. But he kept running to the beach to accomplish his objective, didn’t even drag his brother to the shore. Those guys had balls!

I recommend you read up on WW1 sometime. For one day of your year, think about why you're here and who gave you that right. People died for your freedom, the least you can do is think about what the world would be like if it were run by nazis.

The Two Minute Silence at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month represents the moment when the guns fell silent in November 1918 at the end of the First World War.

As Big Ben chimed at 11am, an estimated 45 million people stopped what they were doing to honour those who fought and died for their country.

Britain's oldest veteran, 109-year-old Henry Allingham, travelled to France to lay two wreaths, including one at the first permanent memorial to the 4,700 British air personnel who died while fighting on the Western Front in the Great War.

Frail but resolute, Mr Allingham returned 88 years after last serving at the barren aerodrome at St Omer, near Calais, which became the largest British airbase in Europe during the First World War.

With tears in his eyes, Mr Allingham, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, the last surviving founder member of the RAF, spoke of returning to the airfield, and of his fellow servicemen who died in the conflict.

He said: "By coming here, you recall things you want to forget. I do the best I can. I come here to pay homage to these brave men."

In the capital, for the first time the annual remembrance Day Service was held at City Hall, while the London Eye was illuminated in red and stopped moving as those inside paid their respects.

R.I.P

from whence did you copy/paste that?

[quote="mr.miyagi":527d4]I recommend you read up on WW1 sometime. For one day of your year, think about why you're here and who gave you that right. People died for your freedom, the least you can do is think about what the world would be like if it were run by nazis.

The Two Minute Silence at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month represents the moment when the guns fell silent in November 1918 at the end of the First World War.

As Big Ben chimed at 11am, an estimated 45 million people stopped what they were doing to honour those who fought and died for their country.

Britain's oldest veteran, 109-year-old Henry Allingham, travelled to France to lay two wreaths, including one at the first permanent memorial to the 4,700 British air personnel who died while fighting on the Western Front in the Great War.

Frail but resolute, Mr Allingham returned 88 years after last serving at the barren aerodrome at St Omer, near Calais, which became the largest British airbase in Europe during the First World War.

With tears in his eyes, Mr Allingham, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, the last surviving founder member of the RAF, spoke of returning to the airfield, and of his fellow servicemen who died in the conflict.

He said: "By coming here, you recall things you want to forget. I do the best I can. I come here to pay homage to these brave men."

In the capital, for the first time the annual remembrance Day Service was held at City Hall, while the London Eye was illuminated in red and stopped moving as those inside paid their respects.

R.I.P[/quote:527d4]

I watched that on the news with him laying the wreath at the monument Amazes me that someone that fought in a world war could live to be 109.

John McCrae

So close to John Mac Rae my grandfather

RIP VETS...Thanks for fighting right away when you knew the world was on the line instead of only fighting right away when it is profitable.

seriously, get fucked

Germany lost both times, right now you'd have all the money in the world...you should curse us.

Pyro do you have to start these boring fucking anti american pissing contests where-ever possible? We've heard this bullshit countless times from you, it got old after the second time. Shut your hole.

Pyro, zip it and stop posting in this thread.

This is a day for celebrating history. Im just speaking historical truth. Lives > money.

This day is for remembering and mourning, not celebrating.

we are remembering that they came in late.

Stop






Posting

No, no. YOU are the one that needs to stop. Pyro just need to reprioritize his thoughts and ideas with a different approach to explaining them so he doesn't offend anyone.

[quote="Jin-Roh":da5dc]No, no. YOU are the one that needs to stop. Pyro just need to reprioritize his thoughts and ideas with a different approach to explaining them so he doesn't offend anyone.[/quote:da5dc]

Not really. He needs to unplug his fucken keyboard.

I really hope you get hit by a car. That'd totally make my day.

Seriously. Why arent you dead yet?

[quote=1080jibber][quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":c6306]LEST WE FORGET

rip ww1 veterans annoy:[/quote]There are no more WW1 (Canadian) veterans this year 2005, they have all died.
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[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_Veterans_of_the_First_World_War"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_ ... _World_War[/url]

duke proctor lives like half an hour away from me, he has great great grand kids and shit

Wilfred Owen's poem in my opinion is best suited for the occasion, in flanders field is over-rated...my opinion, so don't start going crazy. Wilfred Owen died 3 days before the end of WW1, the worlds most costly and useless war to date. I am not a cynicist of rememberance day, I held my moment of silence like most people. I am merely speaking out truths of WW1.

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. (DULCE ET DECORUM EST - the first words of a Latin saying (taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words, it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country)

Rest in peace to all the vets of any nation and war, who fought, died, and lived.