[Scarlett.]

Lest We Forget

Youtube video

Rest In Peace

[nicole_burks]

that was amazing.

[Angus]

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

[sooty]

[Kazanne]

Remembering all our soldiers.

[Callum]

[MTVN]

[Visage]

[HBB1508]

In rememberance of our all soldiers who have lost their lives across the wars and across the years so we may be free.

[Scarlett.]

Pictures from Britain

Lloyds in London


Veterans at the Commando Memorial in Scotland


A builder showing his respect


Salford builders showing their respect


Staff pause in Manchester's Trafford Shopping Center


Trafalgar Square


Troops commemorating the fallen ones in Plymouth


Camp Bastion, Afghanistan


Pupils of a school in London scatter poppies


The England team

[arista]

No photos of the EDL arrested today?

[Livia]

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.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I stood quietly for 2 minutes today and remembered the wars and the poor men and women who had to go through it.