Rememberance Day, Veterans Day

[Technomancer]

Elizabeth Daryush
Flanders Fields

Here the scanted daisy glows
Glorious as the carmined rose;
Here the hill-top's verdure mean
Fair is with unfading green;
Here, where sorrow still must tread,
All her graves are garlanded.

And still, O glad passer-by
Of the fields of agony,
Lower laughter's voice, and bare
Thy head in the valley where
Poppies bright and rustling wheat
Are a desert to love's feet.

[Doubleshadow]

Very nice, Technomancer. We're having a canned food drive here for Veteran's Day and we are going to send the food to the City Mission. I forget the exact number, but something like 60% of the homeless are veterans.

[Syaoran]

Well it is that time of year again. were we remember what the people in WW 1&2 did for Canada. So happy Rememberance Day.

[Chocobo777]

Have a good Remembrance Day everyone! Does anyone know any veterans in their area? One of my Youth leaders dad is a veteran and we all look up to him as kind of a Grandpa. I think he served in both WW1 and WW2. He was very lucky to have known God at such a time I think because that is who pulled him safely through the wars. Just something I thought was worth remembering...

[Taka]

..for canada...

[Technomancer]

Well it is that time of year again. were we remember what the people in WW 1&2 did for Canada. So happy Rememberance Day.

Specifically, the commerates the armistance of 1918, which was signed on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. In Canada and Great Britain, it is called Rememberance Day although it is called Armistace Day in the US.

[Scribs]

yes, i have heard that there are only about 30 american veterans from WWI left. Its a good time to be remembering what they went through, not only for their contrys but for europe, and the world

[Slater]

(I figured that since there were 2 threads in general about the canadian version of this holiday that it was time for an American one)

Remember your veterans! Go out and hug one, or go out to your local cemetary to honour those who've died to protect our beautiful country. And if you have anyone in your family who is/was in the armed forces, tell 'em that you love 'em! What ever you do, honour our brave fighters who fought in wars past, wars present, and any wars to come!

*would hug his Grandpa if he weren't in the hospital today*

[Scribs]

Yes, it is always good to remember those patriotic souls who fought for our country!

Though I think that using one of the two canadian threads would have worked just as well, as making a new one.

[Stephen]

Combined all the Vet, Rememberance day threads.

[Scepth]

Props to the brave soldiers who died fighting for our freedom.

Happy remembrance day people

[the_lizardqueen]

Both of my Grandfathers served during the 2nd World War, my mom's father was involved in radio training and from what I've heard, my dad's father worked with the artilary. Sadly, I never actually knew my dad's father, and my other Grandfather passed away last year. I really should get the whole story before it gets all muddled and confused through the generations.

I always find the moment of silence on the 11th hour to be so powerful, I always observe it, no matter where I am.

[Yojimbo]

Literally half my family has served or is serving right now. I have the deepest respect for our armed forces. Here's to veterans of the past and who've given their all and those to come.

[termyt]

In the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the Armistice ending World War I was signed ending many years of intense bloodshed in a nightmare wasteland we can not even begin to imagine.

Being an avid player of Star Wars: Battlefronts, I think I have just a taste of what is like to be in combat. Only without the fear and anxiety and horrible stench of a real battle. I can’t imagine surviving such a thing – and in Battlefronts, I rarely do. Real soldiers don’t get to respawn when they are killed in battle. Real soldiers feel the searing heat of a bullet when it enters their flesh. Real soldiers feel the intense loneliness in-between battles and the knowledge that they may not be so lucky next time.

I’ve never been a real soldier, but I am eternally grateful for the real soldiers who bled and died so that my way of life continues to thrive.

God bless the United States, the free world, and those who offer their lives to protect her.