Remember

[Locomotion]

A very moving song indeed. Thank You Locomotion, not only for this youtube link, but also for finding time to contribute and giving your share in paying homage to the selfless act those men and women in uniform did for the country they love.

I hope more conscientious and decent people like you and others here could find time to do the same, and despite the pervert nature of this forum, a few more could have even a tiniest act of personal valour to divert from their desire in looking on where to find the best bottom experience and contemplate instead on why they are now enjoying this freedom.

'Coz, tomorrow as Scarlet O'hara said in Gone with the Wind... "will be another day" anyway.

.......And they can all go back to their Tara.....lalaland! again.

Thanks, Lani. It's so easy to take our freedoms for granted and it's even easier to forget about WWI and WWII ...

It's so scary how close the west came to losing WWII, think what kind of a world this would be today if Hitler won.

[dom r]

The question is why is there war,illness,suffering and death? The answer can be compared to God rotating a giant lever to a giant grinding machine. People and animals of the past,present and future go into this machine and in the very far future out comes the perfect being that is of one gender where war,suffering,illness,murder,rape,aging and death will no longer exist. Until then, we all have to go through God's grinding machine.

[Lani]

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Huh?!

[Lani]

Any wayyyyyy!

Just pause and reflect if you can.

It's almost 11-11-11





.....Then later resume your activity on that grinding machine.

[dom r]

Huh?!

past,present and future into the armageddon grinding machine out comes the promised land in thee far future

[Rantsalot]

Remember

One of the proudest threads I have ever created.

November 11th , 2013

Lest we forget.

[Rantsalot]

November 11th, 2013

[Rantsalot]

I remember

[Guest]

I remember

Hi all,

I went to the Remembrance Day ceremony, this morning.
My goodness - the bagpipes played and i felt so moved. I felt chills down my spine and on my arms as i stood there listening to the commanding officer shouting out orders at the top of his lungs to the soldiers.
Soon after, armed forces jets flew overhead and filled the air with their thunderous sounds.
Soon after the cannons were fired. They were so loud. I stood, in awe, and wondered, about the absolute fear 18-year-old soldiers must have felt when they were in battle and saw and heard actual bombs exploding all around them.

I shook and started to weep as i saw those 18 year old boys who are now much, much older retired soldiers, some in their late 80s or older, proudly saluting our flag and remembering.

I remember.
If there are any soldiers or veterans here reading this,
thank you.

Babe,

[wantitss63]

Babe,

Well said! We owe such a debt of gratitude to those who gave all - in fact, to all who served!

Thank you.
S

[Rantsalot]

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Glad to see someone FINALLY remembered. My fear is that as the years pass and as the veterans from the Great World Wars will not be around people will not remember the great sacrifice they made or even worse people will remember .... but for the wrong reasons. That is something I could not bare to see.

IN FLANDERS FIELDS POEM

By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae







In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields

Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915
during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium

On May 2, 1915, John McCrae?s close friend and former student Alexis Helmer was killed by a German shell. That evening, in the absence of a Chaplain, John McCrae recited from memory a few passages from the Church of England?s ?Order of the Burial of the Dead?. For security reasons Helmer?s burial in Essex Farm Cemetery was performed in complete darkness.
The next day, May 3, 1915, Sergeant-Major Cyril Allinson was delivering mail. McCrae was sitting at the back of an ambulance parked near the dressing station beside the YserCanal, just a few hundred yards north of Ypres, Belgium.


As John McCrae was writing his In Flanders Fields poem, Allinson silently watched and later recalled, ?His face was very tired but calm as he wrote. He looked around from time to time, his eyes straying to Helmer's grave."


Within moments, John McCrae had completed the ?In Flanders Fields? poem and when he was done, without a word, McCrae took his mail and handed the poem to Allinson.


Allinson was deeply moved:


?The (Flanders Fields) poem was an exact description of the scene in front of us both. He used the word blow in that line because the poppies actually were being blown that morning by a gentle east wind. It never occurred to me at that time that it would ever be published. It seemed to me just an exact description of the scene."

[Gypsy1955]

Remembrance Day

Babe,

I've been on many of those parades (30 in fact, but who's counting!) at home and in the Middle East. Each and every one tore an emotional chord in me. Im proud to wear my medals that one time day per year and that I now participate as a part of a thankful audience and applaud the new vets of today as they march past. Babe, I know your kind words and the words from others are from the heart!