Rememberances.
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Topic: Rememberances.
Posted By: Shamu
Subject: Rememberances.
Date Posted: May 24 2013 at 5:32am
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In Flanders fields the
poppies blow We are the Dead. Short
days ago Take up our quarrel
with the foe:
Each item on the table symbolizes
something to honor our veterans... ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
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Posted By: Zed
Date Posted: May 24 2013 at 5:54am
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Flanders fields was written during the WW1 campaign at Ypres, Belgium. The fallen are well remembered in Ypres.  The Tyne Cot cemetry near Ypres, I believe there are 12,000 graves and 35,000 names on the wall.  The Menin Gate, Ypres. at 20 hours each evening they play the "Last Post" as a sign of respect to the fallen. The names engraved on the walls are only the soldiers who were never found so could not be buried. I believe there are around 500,000 names engraved; they are all around the arch and adjacent walls. In Flanders Fields! ------------- It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice! |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: May 24 2013 at 6:11am
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McRea's homestead in Guelph, Ontario is a museum now. He wrote that poem following the death of one of his friends, @ the field hospital where he was working. He himself passed, not too long after Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: May 27 2013 at 10:45pm
| amen , and may the MIAs be returned |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: May 28 2013 at 2:28am
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Lest we forget the price of Freedom.
------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |
Posted By: Zed
Date Posted: May 28 2013 at 2:59am
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A few years ago, in a quiet moment; I wrote a poem as a tribute to the men and women gave there lives for our freedom. It is called "The road to freedom". We walk the road of freedom, it’s part of everyday. Life is good and easy, we’re better off this way. And in a quiet moment, I often spare a thought. For those who went before us, and how liberty was bought. I think of how we got here, of how the price was paid. For every metre travelled, for every brick thats laid. The road has been a long one, we could not stand alone. With graves on every corner, and blood on every stone. Some of us are frightened, to share what we have found. While others they lie bleeding, or sleeping on the ground. It’s time to look around us, forgive what’s gone before. Open our hearts to others, and leave religion at the door. ------------- It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice! |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: May 28 2013 at 5:57am
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Nice! ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |