November 11

[Beirut]

Lest we forget.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Gee what will we do for the 12th?

[Adrian II]

We won't forget.

[Somebody Else]

I certainly won't forget, spent the last coupla hours trying to bull my damned brogues for parade.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Time to play a little Eric Bogle music and mourn an era.

11/11/18 11:11 hours.


God Bless our veterans as they raise a glass to absent friends.

[Csargo]

God Bless the Veterans and everyone else.

[Aenlic]

Sadly, here in Austin on Veteran's Day tomorrow, a Nazi group is planning demonstrations around the city. This pisses me off to no end. While I recognize their right to free speech; I find their choice of day to be outrageous. They have their right to speak. Where's my right to go bash their heads in with a baseball bat?

[Navaros]

I've seen several Canadian media outlets trying to bastardize the meaning of Remembrance Day by attaching Canadians who got killed in Afghanistan this year to it.

In my view if Remembrance Day is going to be bastardized in such a way by the media at large, then the time has come to forget.

[King Henry V]

I've seen several Canadian media outlets trying to bastardize the meaning of Remembrance Day by attaching Canadians who got killed in Afghanistan this year to it.

In my view if Remembrance Day is going to be bastardized in such a way by the media at large, then the time has come to forget.

Remembrance Day remembers the sacrifice of all those who fell in the wars during the previous century and up to the present day.

God rest their souls.

[Husar]

I always find these threads very interesting as we don't have any veteran remembrance days or anything else about veterans here in Germany.
The only ones who would celebrate or remember veterans here are the Neo-Nazis.
I myself cannot make my mind up whether this is a good idea or not, I do not want to judge dead people neither in a good nor in a bad way, especially not if I never met them personally.

[InsaneApache]

Given German history in the 20th century it's no surprise that the veterans aren't remembered in the same way as they are in the 'Allied' countries.

Speaking for myself, these men and women defended democracy against authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. That's why we remember them. We have our freedom to thank for this.

[Sir Moody]

I always feel its shame we foget the brave German soldiers who gave their lives defending their country it is a cop out to foget them just because they were on the wrong side

[Prodigal]

Beneath This Stone Rests the Body
OF A BRITISH WARRIOR
Unknown by Name or Rank

BROUGHT FROM FRANCE TO LIE AMONG
THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS OF THE LAND
AND BURIED HERE ON ARMISTICE DAY
11 NOV: 1920, IN THE PRESENCE OF
HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V
HIS MINISTERS OF STATE
THE CHIEFS OF HIS FORCES
AND A VAST CONCOURSE OF THE NATION

THUS ARE COMMEMORATED THE MANY
MULTITUDES WHO DURING THE GREAT
WAR PF 1914-1918 GAVE THE MOST THAT
MAN CAN GIVE LIFE ITSELF
FOR GOD
FOR KING AND COUNTRY
FOR LOVED ONES HOME AND EMPIRE
FOR THE SACRED CAUSE OF JUSTICE AND
THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD

THEY BURIED HIM AMONG THE KINGS
BECAUSE HE
HAD DONE GOOD TOWARD GOD AND TOWARD
HIS HOUSE

Around the main inscription are four inscriptions
THE LORD KNOWETH THEM THAT ARE HIS
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
UNKNOWN AND YET WELL KNOWN, DYING AND BEHOLD WE LIVE
IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE

[GoreBag]

I always find these threads very interesting as we don't have any veteran remembrance days or anything else about veterans here in Germany.
The only ones who would celebrate or remember veterans here are the Neo-Nazis.
I myself cannot make my mind up whether this is a good idea or not, I do not want to judge dead people neither in a good nor in a bad way, especially not if I never met them personally.

We love propanganda in the Commonwealth.