The Eleventh Hour Of The Eleventh Day Of The Eleventh Month

[USU78]

To all the doughboys and dogfaces and all the rest, we remember and hope that you'll never be forgotten.

Edited November 11, 2014 by USU78

[thesometimesaint]

They will always be alive in our hearts.

[Duncan]

it's Rememberance Day here in Canada and am watching various shows about our military past

[The Nehor]

Elevensies?

[USU78]

Elevensies?

 

A more poetic, less snarky age would have an armistice ending a world war go into effect on that day at that hour.

[Duncan]

The traditional last soldier of the British Empire to die in WW1 was a Canadian named George Price, he was killed at 10:58 am, two minutes before the armistice

[The Nehor]

A more poetic, less snarky age would have an armistice ending a world war go into effect on that day at that hour.

I am not sure poetic is the best way to describe the age that brought us the "war to end all wars".

[Alan]

it's Rememberance Day here in Canada and am watching various shows about our military past

 

It's remembrance day here too. 

Have you seen the pictures of the 800,000+ ceramic poppies at the Tower of London? A poppy for every British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and empire soldier who fell in the Great War.

Very moving. 

[Duncan]

It's remembrance day here too. 

Have you seen the pictures of the 800,000+ ceramic poppies at the Tower of London? A poppy for every British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and empire soldier who fell in the Great War.

Very moving. 

 

 

I have, some months ago I contributed some family information to a site that may be linked to that project where they lay a poppy for every Commonwealth soldier killed in the War, but I may be wrong about that

[Calm]

Wow...flashbacks of Oz.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/12/1410516116218_Image_galleryImage_LONDON_ENGLAND_SEPTEMBER_.JPG

[USU78]

The traditional last soldier of the British Empire to die in WW1 was a Canadian named George Price, he was killed at 10:58 am, two minutes before the armistice

 

And it was a Canadian, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, who penned:

 

In Flanders 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 amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

[Duncan]

Wow...flashbacks of Oz.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/12/1410516116218_Image_galleryImage_LONDON_ENGLAND_SEPTEMBER_.JPG

 

 

those are all hand made, that's a labour of love-it's the least though people can do considering who each of those poppies represent and what they did for everyone

[Guest]

To all the doughboys and dogfaces and all the rest, we remember and hope that you'll never be forgotten.

I wore my Army Shirt and dog tags today, not for praise, but to remind those who might have forgotten. A few thanked me for my service...I told them, no thanks needed...it was my honor to serve.

[LinuxGal]

The traditional last soldier of the British Empire to die in WW1 was a Canadian named George Price, he was killed at 10:58 am, two minutes before the armistice

 

The two sides actually met at 5 AM.  Maybe if they promulgated an immediate armistice rather than waiting for a cute 11/11 11:11 thing, the man would have lived to see his sweetheart again.