 | Remembrance Day| SitRep Discuss Remembrance Day in the Military Matters forums; As you all know tomorrow is Remembrance day. I would like everyone (as I am sure you will anyway) to ... |
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11-10-2005, 05:04 PM
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__________________  "Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts"
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"To him the people of the world largely owe the Freedom and liberties they enjoy today"
Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London
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11-10-2005, 05:40 PM
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Country:  | I always have done GN for all those young fellas who never had a fair crack of the whip from what ever nation they came from.
Our family remembers this young lad more than most , my uncle killed at 20, sgt pilot Dennis Carty (Wellington pilot with the RCAF Bison sqdn)
we only learned that info from the guys on this site so although I have a laugh and joke with you guys I shall always remember the help you gave.
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11-10-2005, 06:01 PM
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| The US Military Cemetary in the Philipines.
I visited this place in 1998.
Of all the places I've traveled in the world, I consider this place to be the most touching.
So many MIA graves. So many men who fell far from home and now resting here.
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11-10-2005, 06:44 PM
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| Time Catching Up to World War I Veterans
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051110/...vanishing_vets
"....The Census Bureau stopped asking for data about those veterans years ago. Using a report of 65,000 alive in 1990 as a baseline, the VA estimates that no more than 50 remain, perhaps as few as 30....."
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11-10-2005, 07:23 PM
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#5 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Remembrance Day/ Veterans Day - Let us all remember those who sacrificed so much! 
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11-10-2005, 09:54 PM
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Country: | Ill be going to Fort Benning tommorow to see the Service at the base. I hope my great uncle, who was in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, comes with us. He is getting pretty old but is a fighter. He's 93 and i hope he lives to 100 and more....
God Bless those who died for the sake of democracy!
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11-11-2005, 01:57 AM
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Country: | I have just seen on the tv a news item where they asked passers by in London what the Poppy day appeal stood for and the answers they got where shocking one young woman thought it was something to do with celebrating the beginning of autumn what the **** have they been teaching at schools.
I will observe the 2 minute silence at 1100hrs and think of all the dead including the lads from all nations who coped it in the Gulf, sleep peacefully fellas no more worrys for you.
Part of For the Fallen By Lawrence Binyon 1869-1943
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. | |
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11-11-2005, 07:08 AM
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#8 | | He who does not skim
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11-11-2005, 07:22 AM
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#9 | | Der Crewchief
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__________________  US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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11-11-2005, 09:36 AM
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Country: | To all veterans and servicmen serving today, I salute you. Never forget the fallen who paid the ultimate sacrifice.
__________________  http://www.vg-photo.com Wherever their bones may lie, the courage of heroes is consecrated in the hearts and engraved in the history of the free. Lt Col Honner DSO MC, 39th Commander speaking of the dead from the battle of Kokoda. | |
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11-11-2005, 09:50 AM
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#11 | | Der Crewchief
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__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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11-11-2005, 10:06 AM
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11-11-2005, 11:07 AM
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Country:  | Indeed...Thanks so much for the sacrifices you made to give us a better life...
Its just a damn shame that some of the ignorant poeple at school dont appreciate this...
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11-11-2005, 11:10 AM
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#14 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Just as you said, ignorant!
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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11-11-2005, 11:36 AM
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#15 | | He who does not skim
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Country: | Well then it's up to us to educate them. By and large, Canadian youth do appreciate the significance of Remembrance Day and what service members have fought for, and continue to fight for throughout the world. Happily, it's still emphasized in the schools here. People are steadily growing complacent though, and it isn't just the younger generations. | |
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