Remembrance Day

[rgraham666]

It's November 11. Remembrance Day here in Canada and much of the former British Commonwealth, Veteran's Day in the U.S.

This is the day that we remember those who bled and died so we could be free. Please make sure you take the time to do so.

 

[AppleBiter]

Honoring all soldiers and their families for their bravery and sacrifice.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

The old lie, 'Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.' - Wilfrid Owen

Rob

Not just those military who lost their lives - the disabled, the widows, the orphans, the war correspondents, the veterans who can never escape the nightmares.

We remember and hope that we can help in some small way to make this world the better, freer place they sacrificed everything for.

 

[rgraham666]

Went the day well?
We died and never knew.
But, well or ill,
Freedom we died for you.

John Maxwell Edmonds, The Times, February 6, 1918.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Rob

Not trading quotes with you, but I've always loved this poem.

Lament

We who are left, how shall we look again
Happily on the sun or feel the rain,
Without remembering how they who went
Ungrudgingly, and spent
Their all for us, loved too the sun and rain?

A bird among the rain-wet lilac sings -
But we, how shall we turn to little things,
And listen to the birds and winds and streams
Made holy by their dreams,
Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things?


Wilfrd Gibson

 

[Guest]

My dad's a Vietnam vet. He still gets up at 4:30 every patriotic holiday to place rows of American flags around town with his Lion's Club members.

It is a good day to call him.

 

[rgraham666]

A friend of mine posted this on her blog.

Sigh.

 

[Elsie Grey]

A friend of mine posted this on her blog.

Sigh.

Thats awful! They gave up everything for us and they deserve all our respect and honour. I'll be at the local memorial service tomorrow.

Elsie

xxx

 

[neonlyte]

Lest we forget all who died in WW1

Germany..........1,800,000
Soviet Union.....1,700,000
France.............1,385,000
Austria.............1,200,000
Great Britain.......947,000
Japan..................800,000
Romania.............750,000
Serbia.................708,000
Italy...................460,000
Turkey................325,000
Belgium..............267,000
Greece................230,000
USA....................137,000
Portugal..............100,000
Canada.................69,000
Bulgaria................68,000
Montenegro...........50,000
TOTAL............11,016,000

 

[angela146]

It's November 11. Remembrance Day here in Canada and much of the former British Commonwealth, Veteran's Day in the U.S.

This is the day that we remember those who bled and died so we could be free. Please make sure you take the time to do so.

Um... not to be too picky about it but... no.

Memorial Day (aka Decoration Day) is the day that we remember those who died. Veterans day is the day that we honor those who are still alive.

Although we ought to be remembering both kinds of people on all days...

Too often we spend a lot of time and energy memorializing the dead and we forget to say "thank you" to those who are still among us.

Today is the one day when we are not going to make that mistake.

 

[kendo1]

We're going to the kid's school for Rememberance Sunday.
It is held around a memorial, in the school grounds, to the staff and former pupils who fell in the war.

 

[dysphemist]

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

- Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

 

[TheEarl]

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