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Topic: Remembrance Day / Veterans' Day
Posted By: brihard
Subject: Remembrance Day / Veterans' Day
Date Posted: 11 November 2009 at 7:17am
Wherever you are today, whatever you're doing, at 11 AM please stop and take a silent minute to think - really think - about what today means. It's not for those of us still serving; it's not some self-serving holiday of recognition, but instead is for all the brothers we've lost on foreign lands and at home. Please think of the price they've paid, and what their sacrifice has given you. Thanks.



They shall not grow old, as we who are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.


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-FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011.

Yup, he actually said that.



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Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 11 November 2009 at 8:25am
Just got back from doing a vigil at the veterans memorial here, it was cold walking back and forth along the street at right shoulder.  The honks from people(I'm assuming veterans) as they drove by made it worth it. Also doing a parade here in about an hour. Thanks guys.


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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 11 November 2009 at 8:28am

Got a parade to do this morning.

Are you taking part in the Ottawa parade Brihard? A bunch of my buddies will be there.



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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 11 November 2009 at 7:04pm
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.

— Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 - 1918)


Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 11 November 2009 at 10:32pm
This day will always make me stop and think.

I was rather pissed off to see remembrance dishonoured recently.


Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 11 November 2009 at 10:44pm

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

Sgt. MacKensie

Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone

When they come I will stand my ground
Stand my ground I’ll not be afraid

Thoughts of home take away my fear
Sweat and blood hide my veil of tears

Once a year say a prayer for me
Close your eyes and remember me

Never more shall I see the sun
For I fell to a Germans gun

Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Where before many more have gone

Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun

When they come a wull staun ma groon
Staun ma groon al nae be afraid

Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

Ains a year say a prayer faur me
Close yir een an remember me

Nair mair shall a see the sun
For a fell tae a Germans gun

Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun



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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 12 November 2009 at 12:15am
Still thinking about joining...

It's very tempting.

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Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.



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