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Rememberance Day, Lest We Forget

Joined: Mar 27, 2011
Posts: 1042
Location: New Brunswick, Canada
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 12:26 pm
I'd like to take a moment to remember all those who have served in their countries Armed Forces, and especially to those who paid the ultimate price for our freedom and way of life.

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.
    John McCrae  May 1915


        
Arte et Marte                             Per Ardua Ad Astra
Life is about falling – Living is about getting back up
Joined: Apr 28, 2012
Posts: 1833
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 1:45 pm
"To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…"

- President Wilson, November 11th, 1919







Last edited by Tazman on Wed Nov 11, 2015 7:54 pm; edited 1 time in total
Joined: Jan 29, 2009
Posts: 4259
Location: Melbourne / Australia
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 7:15 pm
Today marks the anniversary of the end of WW1. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month people in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain and other Allied countries stop what they are doing  and observe a minute silence. This is the anniversary of when the guns stopped firing in 1918 which signaled the end to fighting. This day used to be called Armistice Day and people used to hold two minute silence. Now the one minute silence is to remember the dead from all wars. I ask BK members to hold this one minute silence for all the fallen soldiers of all wars past and present.

The Ode
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.






Joined: Mar 27, 2011
Posts: 1042
Location: New Brunswick, Canada
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 11:14 pm
In Canada we still observe a two minute silence to remember and honor our soldiers past and present and those who made the greatest of sacrifices with their lives. We had record numbers of people turn out for the service and it was standing room only in the Moncton coliseum with every last seat filled and many standing in the areas behind the seating.


        
Arte et Marte                             Per Ardua Ad Astra
Life is about falling – Living is about getting back up
Joined: Apr 24, 2013
Posts: 1127
Location: Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 3:06 am
We will remember them.










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