Re: November 11
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.
Re: November 11
Remembrance Day remembers the sacrifice of all those who fell in the wars during the previous century and up to the present day.Originally Posted by Navaros
God rest their souls.
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Re: November 11
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.
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Re: November 11
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.
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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
Re: November 11
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
Re: November 11
We love propanganda in the Commonwealth.
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