Armistice Day

[Darth InSidious]

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.

[HerbieZ]

They fired a cannon in our town centre at 11.00 and people everywhere legged it because they thought it was a bomb. Not the most well planned event in Stockport's history.

[Diego Varen]

Is Armistice Day another name for Rememberance Day? Anyway, RIP for all those who were killed.

[Sabretooth]

They fired a cannon in our town centre at 11.00 and people everywhere legged it because they thought it was a bomb. Not the most well planned event in Stockport's history.

 

LMAO! :rofl:

 

 

Don't really know much about this event... Is this some sort of WWII-casualties remembrance day? I'll go look up the Wikipedia article...

 

EDIT: Ah, it appears I was off by one World War. Remembrance Day is a Commonwealth name for the event, while Veteran's Day is the American. Whatever the case, R.I.P to the souls lost.

[Jason Skywalker]

May all the lost souls rest in peace.

[Hayden Kered]

Lest We Forget

[Point Man]

As a veteran, I thank you for remembering my comrades. May we never forget that the freedom we enjoy has been puchased at a very dear price.

[Hallucination]

Lest we forget

Je me souviens

 

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.

[TSR]

I mad eit my personal mission to give the people who i saw at jy work today the biggest f**k off evils for the rest of the day when they didnt do a 2 minute silence...

 

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.

[Diego Varen]

I mad eit my personal mission to give the people who i saw at jy work today the biggest f**k off evils for the rest of the day when they didnt do a 2 minute silence...

 

That is horrible, not doing the two minute silence. It is disrespectful to those who have died.

[The Source]

As a veteran, I thank you for remembering my comrades. May we never forget that the freedom we enjoy has been puchased at a very dear price.

Thank you. My grandfather was apart of World War II, and my father was apart of the Gulf War. I know many people who served in the Gulf War, and I have a few who are serving in Aphganistan now. In our quest to keep freedom and peace, people have died honorably in the defense of our nation and other nations.

 

From a son and grandson of two vets, thank you,

MacCorp

[TSR]

I was just talking to my dad, and i found out something really interesting. SAeem's my grandad was a frontliner during WW2, and had his Index and middle finger blown off when a bullet hit the the trigger of his gun. Thankfully, it was a good "blighty" wound, and was soon carted back to Brit. He returned again, just 1 month later, because he had grown so used to the war that he did not feel that home was home. He wanted to "finish the fighT" as such, and survived till the end.

So, from a grandson of a vet, thank you.

[SilentScope001]

Please don't flame me...but...since today is the end of The Great War...

 

What side in World War I do you like more and support? The Allied Powers or the Centeral Powers?

[HerbieZ]

That is horrible, not doing the two minute silence. It is disrespectful to those who have died.

 

Not everyone does it intentionally. Last year i forgot. You don't want to know what i was doing at the time.

[TSR]

I'm not going to flame you, but i'm pretty happy with the way things turned out. Thankfull democracy beat autocracy, because had the results been different england and her allies would probably be called new germany by now, or wiped out all together. And, seeing as germany was being ruled by a proven psychopath, this closes any argument

[Diego Varen]

I was just talking to my dad, and i found out something really interesting. SAeem's my grandad was a frontliner during WW2, and had his Index and middle finger blown off when a bullet hit the the trigger of his gun. Thankfully, it was a good "blighty" wound, and was soon carted back to Brit. He returned again, just 1 month later, because he had grown so used to the war that he did not feel that home was home. He wanted to "finish the fighT" as such, and survived till the end.

So, from a grandson of a vet, thank you.

 

That story is amazing. Thanks for sharing that with us TSR. On BBC 1, there is a Rememberance Day programme for all those who died. I think it is on for a long time tonight. And HerbieZ, I suppose you're right. It's just those who take part in the two minute silence and somebody is still talking, while that silence is going on. "That" is disrespectful.

[Mace MacLeod]

RIP

 

Lest we forget.

[Jae Onasi]

My great-Uncle Kenneth Cady was injured in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. He recovered and went back to the war. On 1 April '45, he was doing reconnaissance. He radioed back the location of a group of German tanks. As he tried to meet back up with his unit, he was shot and killed by a German sniper. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Silver Star posthumously.

[Q]

My maternal grandfather, James Rowan Thompson, served in the Pacific in WWII for three years. He fought in New Guinea and the Phillipines. He never liked to talk about it. This is easily understandable when one considers the fact that he was an infantry machine gunner fighting Japanese soldiers who were prone to making massed human-wave charges.

 

He was wounded at least once as far as I know. He also contracted malaria, as most soldiers did in that theater, and had the symptoms for at least a decade afterward. While he was recuperating from a particularly bad onslaught of the fever in a field hospital, a Japanese mortar round killed his entire gun crew. He would have been killed too had he not been too sick to be there.

 

The only time that I can remember (he's been dead for almost 20 years now) that he ever talked about the combat was one day when we were, for some reason, discussing the Colt .45 caliber pistol. He said that in basic training that his drill instructor had stated that that particular pistol was so powerful that it would flip a man over if he were shot in the thumb with it. He went on to say how ridiculously untrue that claim was because he witnessed an officer empty an entire 7-round magazine into a charging Japanese and that the Japanese didn't stop until he was dead in the foxhole with the officer.

 

While he was going through a living hell in the jungle, his war bride ran off to Florida with a doctor. He did not receive a "Dear John" letter like so many other soldiers did, and only found out while on his way home after the war was over. The bitch hadn't told him so that she could continue to receive the money that he was sending home to her. The upside to that episode is that he went on to meet my grandmother after he came home.

 

He was a laid-back, easy-going guy who smoked like a freight train, listened to Jim Reeves and Marty Robbins, and drove like a maniac (not your stereotypical "grandpa" behind the wheel at all! ). The world owes him and millions more like him a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid. This post is dedicated to you, Grandpa. I miss you.

[Emperor Devon]

My grandfather has an amusing WWII story. He was part of the navy, and one person came to him and started ordering him around, telling him how to do his job, etc. He got angry and asked the person who he thought he was, why he was being so bossy, etc. The guy eventually left, and several minutes later he found out that he'd just insulted General Patton. Thank goodness he wasn't in the army.

 

I've had a couple other relatives who were killed or injured in various wars. One was attacked by a German tank, and another was shellshocked. RIP, veterans.

[TSR]

My grandfather has an amusing WWII story. He was part of the navy, and one person came to him and started ordering him around, telling him how to do his job, etc. He got angry and asked the person who he thought he was, why he was being so bossy, etc. The guy eventually left, and several minutes later he found out that he'd just insulted General Patton. Thank goodness he wasn't in the army.

 

your grandad has combined blatant ignorance with awesomeness to make PURE AWESOME. what a legend. Although, had he been in the army he would have surely regretted that...

[Hallucination]

I feel sad about not having any WW2 stories. My grandfather (whom I've never met) was a radar man or something like that, and my great uncle (another person whom I never met) got his leg blown off by a mine when walking into a house or something.

[JediMaster12]

My grandfather was a drill sergeant during WWII and trained the lads that went off to fight. I sadly don't know more. He didn't like to talk about it. The only two other people that I am close to have seen war. My uncle served in Vietnam as a Marine and his son, my cousin served in Iraq as a Marine Captain.

 

On a general note, I had a poem that I wrote entitled Heroes. It generally described the men and women who fought in wars. I'll have to dig it out of my paper storage unit and post.

[Cygnus Q'ol]

My great-Uncle Kenneth Cady was injured in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. He recovered and went back to the war. On 1 April '45, he was doing reconnaissance. He radioed back the location of a group of German tanks. As he tried to meet back up with his unit, he was shot and killed by a German sniper. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Silver Star posthumously.

 

It's him and patriots like him that we honor. I'm grateful that I have a chance to honor the men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice in the fight against tyranny for our freedom and the security of those less fortunate.

 

I'm kind of set back here to find out that your Great Uncle was at that famous battle. I'm sorry for the loss to your family.

My Grandfather, Wilbert McKinley was also present there.

Small world Onasi.

He also fought in areas in North Africa as part of an artillery unit.

 

At the Bulge though, it got very, very ugly. Some units even ran out of ammo and had to resort to hand to hand.

...at night even.

 

There are stories my grandma tells us of him that he won't talk about anymore. Some are not so glorious. Some are downright mindblowing.

 

My family was very fortunate to have him make it back. Otherwise my Mom would have never been born and you guys would be without the character and wisdom of one, Cygnus Q'ol.

 

@JM12 I really, really, really hope you find that poem.

 

@Emperor Devon. Your Grandpa was too cool.

[Negative Sun]

My store had a 2 minute silence, we turned off the screens and everything but still some f***ing customers came up going "can I pay for this here", my inner voice was saying "can you shut your goddd*** f***ing mouth for 2 minutes and show some f***ing respect you ignorant f***!!!"