Armistice Day

[Ben Kenobi]

In Flander's 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 amidst the guns below

we are the dead
short days ago
we lived watched dawn saw sunset glow
lived and were loved and now we lie
In Flanders' Fields

Take up our quarrel with the foe
to you with failing hands we throw
the torch be yours to hold it high
lest ye break faith with those who die
we shall not rest, though poppies blow
In Flander's Fields.

[Nikolai]

They went with songs to the battle, they were young.

Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,

They fell with their faces to the foe.

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.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;

They sit no more at familiar tables of home;

They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;

They sleep beyond England's foam

[DaShi]

Ben can go **** himself!

[Ben Kenobi]

This thread is a memorial, DaShi. Please confine your comments elsewhere.

[giblets]

Ben Kenobi is ****ting all over the veterans who gave their lives so that DaShi could say whatever he likes.

[Ben Kenobi]

Ben Kenobi is ****ting all over the veterans who gave their lives so that DaShi could say whatever he likes.

Disrespect is still disrespect.

[Nikolai]

Seriously folks. Keep your dirt elsewhere!

[rah]

Yes, a lesson I wish ben would learn.

Thanks to all the vets.

[Ben Kenobi]

Thanks rah.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

It's kind of sad that the whole Remembrance Day/Poppy appeal thing started with a poem that basically says "Keep fighting the Germans or we'll haunt you".

[Ben Kenobi]

It's kind of sad that the whole Remembrance Day/Poppy appeal thing started with a poem that basically says "Keep fighting the Germans or we'll haunt you".

It's a tragic war all around. Moreso the need to recall so that those who gave their lives did not do so in vain. And the fact that the only thing to celebrate about it is the Armistice. Nobody won. France lost her Empire. England lost hers. Germany lost her Emperor and collapsed to Nazi Germany. Russia did the same. The turks were taken over and collapsed. Same with the Austrians. And the Serbs who started it all?

Nobody was better off in 1919 than they were in 1913.

[giblets]

You forgot Poland.

[DaShi]

Seriously folks. Keep your dirt elsewhere!

Every time a memorial thread is posted, Ben posts his own and tries to ruin the other one. He doesn't care at all about veterans. His thread is an insult to them.

[Ben Kenobi]

You forgot Poland.

I didn't forget Poland. Poland escaped within a hairsbreadth from being reannexed into Russia.

[giblets]

Clearly worse than being ruled by Russia.