Remebrance Day

[Gleemonex]

machinor, Narhon, thank you kindly for your simple and honest thoughts.

-Glee

[oudysseos]

Gleemonex, I apologized for making you angry, which I did not intend, even though I object on moral grounds to war memorials. I still fail to see how my regret at not being able to join you in celebrating military service is so threatening to you.

To the extent that it was appropriate for you to post on this 3rd-century-bce-wargame forum about a British and Canadian national holiday, I feel it was appropriate for me to respond to an issue which is of profound importance to me. You opened the door here. Don't get upset if everything that comes through it is not to your specifications.

Are you going to apologize for swearing at me, insulting me, and asking a moderator to delete my posts? You certainly intended those. Is that appropriate behavior for a member of the org, much less a member of the EB team?

[Marius Dynamite]

I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.

God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear...
But I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

Written by Alan Seeger, an American who graduated from Harvard and joined the French Foreign Legion to fight in WWI. He wrote this poem and died in 1916. I only know of it because it was in the Gears of War 2 trailer.

[bovi]

Then might I kindly request that you start your own fucking thread, since this one is apolitical?
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The reason I asked to close the thread, and note the prophetic "Well here it comes" at the beginning of the post in question, is that this thread was destined to become political grandstanding the moment someone posted vociferously and expressly to NOT celebrate Remebrance Day.

Or rather, the moment you posted the thread in the first place. How could you think that a thread about war in any degree of removedness could be apolitical? I suggest that you read your own responses and see where the first stone was cast here, Glee. Locked, upon request and upon necessity.

You may send any outrage to me by PM.