Remembrance Day

[Defender_16]

(I looked for it, I googled for it, but I couldnt find the other thread.)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day

 

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On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

 

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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

 

 

Post your Rememberance Day stuff guys. (Or whatever holiday your country has.)

 

EDIT: ARRGH! We only had two fighter jets available for the Flyover durring the cerimonies at the Capital.

Edited November 11, 2007 by Defender_16

[Mad78]

We don't have a holiday for that here. Switzerland didn't participate (officially) in any of the two World Wars.

But I do wear a poppy to commemorate.

[Grand_Admiral_Thrawn]

EDIT: ARRGH! We only had two fighter jets available for the Flyover durring the cerimonies at the Capital.

 

That sounds about right. That'd be about ten percent of our Air Force right there.

 

I've been pestering people for the past two weeks to get their poppies on; it's really quite sad how few people care about this. I think I've lost four poppies so far, but I don't mind donating $8 to our veterans.

 

This is an offical list of all of Canada's Victoria Cross winners, the highest military medal in most Commonwealth countries. I'm actually surprised at how few people there are on that list.

[Mad78]

This is an offical list of all of Canada's Victoria Cross winners, the highest military medal in most Commonwealth countries. I'm actually surprised at how few people there are on that list.[/color]

The link doesn't seem to work.

[Grand_Admiral_Thrawn]

The link doesn't seem to work.

 

Hmm, it seems to work alright for me. Are you sure you're not having link issues again?

[Aenivae_Ikeda]

Actually I wrote a poem for today, so here's my little effort to appreciate life.

 

Lost in eleven, and seven more.

With a million men gone to war.

Dead of gangrene, and mustard gas

Moved to mourn in solemn laughs

For scores of ten fed to crimson mass

 

To whom and for the bells are tolled

On blooming wastes of poppy spring

The shells and bells conspire to sing

A note en death in treble clef.

[Jahled]

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1194809883/poppy.jpg

 

And long may they be honored.

[Eagle]

That´s a really great idea to remember all those who fought and died, so we can live that way we do right now. Sadly over here there´s not such a thing, even not on tv. Today it´s the beginning of carnival again (11.11.xx 11.11 pm every year) and people rather think of that.

 

@Aenivea

Nice poem!

 

You may haven´t recognised this, don´t you?!