Subject: Today is Remembrance Day
Posted by: tezza1551
Date: Nov 10 09
The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month...
Lest We Forget
Posted by: tezza1551
Date: Nov 10 09
The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month...
Lest We Forget
18 replies. On page 1 of 1 pages. 1
kels_76 
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Lest we forget. We will remember them. Reply #1. Nov 10 09, 4:34 PM |
Deunan
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Never forget. Always remember. Reply #2. Nov 10 09, 4:50 PM |
MarchHare007
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Lest We Forget. Reply #3. Nov 10 09, 6:19 PM |
mathking97
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Lest we forget. Reply #4. Nov 10 09, 9:22 PM |
| mathking97
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The rememberance is most important. Reply #5. Nov 10 09, 9:23 PM |
Trigger7
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www.arlingtoncemetery.net/flanders.htm "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae Reply #6. Nov 10 09, 10:39 PM |
tezza1551
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I have just returned from an exhibition about Sandakan Death marches. These stories must be told to ensure they do not happen again. http://www.sandakan-deathmarch.com/ Again, Lest We Forget. Reply #7. Nov 10 09, 11:06 PM |
| romeomikegolf
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The oft used quote from the poem 'For The Fallen' by Laurence Bynion. They shall not grow old, as we that 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. Reply #8. Nov 11 09, 2:52 AM |
longcoolwoman2
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Lest we forget. Reply #9. Nov 11 09, 8:38 AM |
| romeomikegolf
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To those of you that have not lost anyone, thankyou. To those of us that have, we will never forget. Every day is a rememberence. No matter how long ago it was. Reply #10. Nov 11 09, 9:21 AM |
lesley153
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We will remember them. Reply #11. Nov 11 09, 10:25 AM |
| Professer
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We should Never forget the great sacrifices made in the name of peace. Reply #12. Nov 11 09, 10:35 AM |
Cymruambyth
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My most profound memories of Remembrance Day centre on my great-uncle Owen. My great-grandparents had four sons and all four of them marched off to war in 1914 (two of them leaving behind wives and children). My grandfather and two of his brothers were killed on the Somme (at the Battle of Delleville Wood) in 1916, and in that same battle Uncle Owen's legs were blown off. In my mind's eye I see him every Remembrance Day, on his crutches with his trouser legs pinned up around the stumps that remained where his legs had been. He'd stand at attention in front of the Cenotaph in our small Welsh town, with tears streaming down his cheeks, as he remembered his brothers and his brothers-in-arms who fought and died in the muck and mire of the World War I battlefields. Every Remembrance Day I remember the grandfather and great-uncles I never knew, the brave great-uncle I knew well, my father's brothers (both of whom, thank God, came home in 1918 physically unscathed), and all those who served in the two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan and gave all their tomorrows for our todays. May they rest in peace, and may we eventually come to the understanding that war does not solve problems and only creates other problems! "At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them." Reply #13. Nov 11 09, 10:55 AM |
| longcoolwoman2
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My Grandfather was with the medical corps in WWI, stationed in France. As the story goes, the first thing he did upon landing in New York City at the end of the war, was to buy a portrait of the Statue of Liberty. I still have that portrait...hanging proudly upon the wall. Reply #14. Nov 11 09, 11:36 AM |
| tezza1551
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Are any of you familiar with Eric Bogle's song "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" ? http://www.pogues.com/Releases/Lyrics/LPs/RumSodomy/Waltzing.html Says it all for me. Reply #15. Nov 11 09, 6:00 PM |
paco18
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"We band of brothers" Reply #16. Nov 12 09, 12:52 AM |
| romeomikegolf
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tezza, I've heard it several times. Very poignant. Reply #17. Nov 12 09, 1:48 AM |
| Cymruambyth
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tezza, 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda' brings tears to my eyes. Here's another one, written by a Newfoundlander. He was in a store when the management announced the two minutes silence on Remembrance Day. Everyone stood silent for the two minutes except for one man and his youn gon. Barr was so incensed by the father's insensitivity (talk about missing a teachable moment!) that he went home and wrote 'A Pittance of Time'. For some reason I can't post the link because of the at sign, but I'll spell it out: wbarr at shaw.ca Give it an ear. It will move you, too Reply #18. Nov 12 09, 1:01 PM |
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