Remembrance Day - November 11th

[Leslie]

I'm going to the ceremonies at the boys' school.

 

[ClaireBear]

So Leslie and Bish? Do you both have relatives that died in combat? Perhaps the 2nd World War?

You both seem to take this all so very "badly"... no "strongly" no... you know what I mean...

Here we had our 2 minutes silence which lasted 4 here in the college! problem with the bells... couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery! I bought my usual poppy and routinely covered it in tip-ex to whiten it.

Those who wear a white poppy are "consciencious objectors" in our time... we're remembering the fallen but make a statement hat the blood lost was a waste and that it should NEVER happen again

 

[Leslie]

Noone in my family died, thankfully, but they were there. Doing what, I don't know, because they won't talk about it.

 

[unclehobart]

My moms dad was a WW2 Marine for Iwo Jima and a few other hot spots. He doesn't talk about it. My dad got a shoebox full of purple hearts in Vietnam and he will not talk about it either.

 

[unclehobart]

Heres a salute out to our vets of the board.

The ones that I can remember offhand:

Tonks
Gato
Postcode
Squiggy
Sharky? *dunno*
Mitchshaft *brief though his stint was*

 

[ClaireBear]

I thought "vets" or "veterans" were retired military...

Gato is still very much so active!

 

[Leslie]

The school ceremony was great. Each grade put on a small presentation. The grade 7 and 8 classes got together and did a power point slide show of poignant photographs set to "Imagine" which impressed me.

The kids at this school seem to really 'get' it. They were all very solemn and paid close attention. Very good.

Good thing it was dark cause I was teary right through it.

 

[Leslie]

Heres a salute out to our vets of the board.

The ones that I can remember offhand:

Tonks
Gato
Postcode
Squiggy
Sharky? *dunno*
Mitchshaft *brief though his stint was*

GI Jane

 

[unclehobart]

I thought "vets" or "veterans" were retired military...

Gato is still very much so active!

I rooted through some definitions and then ran across a blurb in the US militarys own definitions. It says that it consideres one to be a verteran after 90 days of active service or less if one died in the performance of ones duties.

It just seemed a little funny to refer to somone who has done a single term and mustered out at 22 a veteran when someone who is active and been in for 30 years isn't.

 

[MrBishop]

So Leslie and Bish? Do you both have relatives that died in combat? Perhaps the 2nd World War?

You both seem to take this all so very "badly"... no "strongly" no... you know what I mean...

Here we had our 2 minutes silence which lasted 4 here in the college! problem with the bells... couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery! I bought my usual poppy and routinely covered it in tip-ex to whiten it.

Those who wear a white poppy are "consciencious objectors" in our time... we're remembering the fallen but make a statement hat the blood lost was a waste and that it should NEVER happen again

Lost a couple of great-uncles. My grandfather survived it but died before I could really appreciate it. My Great-Grandfather was in WWI and died after my grandfather. He wouldn't really talk about it much either.

 

[ResearchMonkey]

greatest repect and honor for those that served thier respective nation.

thanxs

 

[Leslie]

 

[Inkara1]

My moms dad was a WW2 Marine for Iwo Jima and a few other hot spots. He doesn't talk about it. My dad got a shoebox full of purple hearts in Vietnam and he will not talk about it either.

My grandfather (the one who died October 26) earned a purple heart due to getting sprayed with a lot of shrapnel in an exchange of gunfire between several men and a German tank during the battle of Struth on April 7, 1945 in Germany. He got hurt pretty bad, but made a full recovery.

I know this because Grandmama showed me a book that the association of his regiment sent him that was a compilation of stories of the march across Camp Lucky Strike across Germany that the men sent in. Grandpapa didn't talk about it, and now that he's gone I'll never get to find out his version of the events.

 

[Sharky]

Heres a salute out to our vets of the board.

The ones that I can remember offhand:

Tonks
Gato
Postcode
Squiggy
Sharky? *dunno*
Mitchshaft *brief though his stint was*

First of all, sorry for not getting in here until now. Mea culpa.

Nope, not I - the Marine Corps turned me away in the early 80s. I couldn't pass the physical at MEPS. Which is odd, because many years later the U.S. Merchant Marine and the Coast Guard declared me fit for my Master's document. I guess the Corp's standards were tougher.

A salute to all the veterans here, and to my father who was a U.S. Navy fighter pilot in WW2, and both of my brothers who are Marines, one of whom served in Viet Nam.

And a salute to our Canadian friends for Remembrance Day.

 

[Gonz]

we're remembering the fallen but make a statement hat the blood lost was a waste and that it should NEVER happen again.

With a strong military & a willingness to use it, it won't.

 

[ClaireBear]

With a strong military & a willingness to use it, it won't.

 

[Gato_Solo]

I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play.

I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls,
But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls!
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside";
But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide,
The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide,
O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide.

Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.
Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?"
But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll,
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll.

We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind",
But it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind,
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind.

You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!