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Rememberance Day
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that was amazing. :love:
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DULCE ET DECORUM EST
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind. Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. . . Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori. Wilfred Owen 8 October 1917 - March, 1918 The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year of the new millenium - LEST WE FORGET |
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In rememberance of our all soldiers who have lost their lives across the wars and across the years so we may be free.
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Pictures from Britain
Lloyds in London http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...3_964x1277.jpg Veterans at the Commando Memorial in Scotland http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...26_964x662.jpg A builder showing his respect http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...26_470x423.jpg Salford builders showing their respect http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...24_964x867.jpg Staff pause in Manchester's Trafford Shopping Center http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...66_964x508.jpg Trafalgar Square http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...31_964x519.jpg Troops commemorating the fallen ones in Plymouth http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...72_964x380.jpg Camp Bastion, Afghanistan http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...42_964x598.jpg Pupils of a school in London scatter poppies http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...79_964x698.jpg The England team http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...96_964x371.jpg |
No photos of the EDL arrested today?
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At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.
Thank you Chewy for this thread, and to everyone who's posted on here. You restore my faith in a cruel world. |
I stood quietly for 2 minutes today and remembered the wars and the poor men and women who had to go through it.
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