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?

[Ice]

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?

On it's way to Congress, I hope.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

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?

Wait until they're walking over a bridge and then drive your car at them real fast so they have to jump into the water.

[Duke of Gloucester]

It'll be a mission from God.

[Duke of Gloucester]

On a more serious note, this year I particularly call to mind those who fell in the battles of the Somme and Verdun which happened 90 years ago: two terrible battles with examples of human courage, extreme folly and, in the case of Verdun, human evil.

Verdun

Somme

As regards Verdun, those fools who call the French "cheese eating surrender monkeys" should wait until their own lands have fought a battle with 1/2 a million casualties. Anyone reading of their grit and courage in defending the line through those months would refrain from such comments in future.

[Redleg]

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?

I wonder what reason they are using to justify their demonstration?

http://www.antiracistaction.us/pn/in...article&sid=42

Sadly this type of activity happens on days that should be in rememberance of the brave men and women who have served their respective nations

[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.

[Motep]

moment of silence for all of those brave men and women who have fought for the freedoms we are currently enjoying, for those who fought so that our country, and thereby ourselves couold be here posting today.

[Incongruous]

Here's a cheer for all the poor lads who never saw mother or home again!

[InsaneApache]

They shall not grow old as we who are left grow old,
Age shall not wither them nor the years condemn;
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We shall remember them

Says it all.

[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

[Seamus Fermanagh]

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?

Why bash their heads? Having chosen nazism, they are clearly indicating that their head is not a vital area.

[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.

[Aenlic]

Why bash their heads? Having chosen nazism, they are clearly indicating that their head is not a vital area.

Good point. A good swift smack to the cahones so they can't breed would be a better solution. I stand firmly behind their right to speak their tiny little minds. I just object to their choice of days on which to spew their vitriol. They have the right; but there are always consequences to freedom. In this case, I think the consequence should be my right to react to their right. (I'm only half serious, really.)

[Mithrandir]

Gentlemen, please remain civil.

No violence talk.

[Aenlic]

[InsaneApache]

Ditto.

[KrooK]

11th November is not just anniversary of end of ww1.
In Poland it's other holiday- aniversary of reconquering independence.
11th nov 1918 Jozef Pilsudski was given authority and Poland after 123 became free, independent country.
Fights with Germans, Russians, Ukrainians and Lithuanians took over 3 years but that day was beginning - Poland was Poland again.

[Mithrandir]

Replace nazi's with jews, black people, muslims and everyone agrees that it should result in a ban. The above post was made in the name of consistency.

[Aenlic]

Replace nazi's with jews, black people, muslims and everyone agrees that it should result in a ban. The above post was made in the name of consistency.

Which is why I made the effort to point out that I was only being half serious. Ah, well. Sarcasm, satire and irony are lost arts, apparently.