Armistice Day

Galeocerdoshark

Galeocerdoshark

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Hi Everyone,

A couple of minutes ago, I watched brass players play The Last Post on tv, at the Menen gate at Ieper, Belgium, commemorating the end of WO I.
Every year again, I get goose bumbs when they play that song. I've been there once, at the 11th of November and it is a truly chilling experience.
Every single day, in any kind of weather conditions, these guys play The Last Post at the Menen gate at 8pm. All people that are walking by, stop with whatever they're doing out of respect of those who have fallen. It's a wonderful thing, really.
I've held my minute of silence at home.

Hereby, I'd like to remember all the people, military or civilian, that have been the victims of war. Not only those who gave their live for us, so that we may live in (relative) peace today, but also those who suffered from loss, from physical or mental damage. To those who have given their lives in ANY war, so that the world of today may be a better place: Rest In Peace and thank you, from the deepest of my heart, for the gigantic sacrifice all of you have made.

I'd also like to share this picture of my BK14 next to the poem of Wilfred Owen that I bought at the Flanders Fields museum in Ieper, several years ago. Up until this day, it still is hanging at the wall of my room, across my bed.

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Many thanks, sir........We NEED to remember, we NEED to celebrate the heroism of those who keep us safe........We NEED to be, thankfull......

Ethan
 
Thanks for posting. My father in law is a WWII veteran, having fought at Bastogne, in the battle of the bulge. He visits there every year, for about the past 6 years now I guess. He's always amazed how well the people there treat him. Even the children come up to him and thank him for his service. It's a shame that so many here take our freedoms for granted. Thank God for our veterans.
 
Excellent post! im thankful to have served my country, im thankful to be back home in my country with my family, and i am so thankful for the rest of the men and women in uniform that continue to do their duties for this country.


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Thank you for a dignified and moving contribution.

The Great War was supposed to be the war for civilization and the war to end all wars. Unhappily not. War is always a failure, always a terrible waste of lives as most people do not want war, do not wish to kill their fellow man, but are made to by the vanity and greed of other more powerful less heroic people. The Great War is almost a century ago but it has a terrible presence even now, so much suffering and waste for so little benefit. I remember those on all 'sides' civilian and military who fought, who died there and thereafter, who were wounded physically and mentally. Go to Menin, to Thiepval, Ypres, and especially Verdun and be thankful, very thankful that we did not have to go through such days. I remember my great uncle in WW1 my dear father his brother, my mother's brothers, their cousins and my mother in the various armed services of various countries in WW2, In ever renewed homage. And to their one time foes who suffered no less, we should all be humbled by war.
 
Many thanks to everyone in this thread for their shared feelings and thoughts. Never forget, always remember.
 
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