Posted by Keith-Lemon on 2011-11-11 10:24:49

WOW alot of people with respect around here voting a 1 you sad idiots!!

Posted by pythrr on 2011-11-11 10:34:53

Nice blog Keith.

Both my grandfathers served in WW2.

Don't pay the haters any attention.

Posted by Slothman on 2011-11-11 10:40:28

Lest we forget.....

Posted by PurpleChest on 2011-11-11 11:27:00

might be a cultural thing. 11,11,11 is an english thing isnt it?

But a 6 from me, lost a grandfather in WW II and had many other family members serve both then and after.

i also work with the army now, and whether you support where/why they go to war, the fact is young lads are still dying on our behalf, sent there by our government.

To remember them is not asking much.

Posted by DonTomaso on 2011-11-11 13:24:44

Lots of sad spoiled kids around, since someone voted 1...
Amazing how some take our freedom for granted.
Nice post!

Posted by pythrr on 2011-11-11 14:07:05

english and commonwealth (well, oz and nz also have anzac day).

but its remembrance day in the states too, no?

Posted by Cyrus-Havoc on 2011-11-11 14:11:46

Both Grandfathers injured/wounded WW1, Father injured in WW2.
Four family members killed WW1. Many others served including my Mother & Mother in Law. Several were wounded.
My family is far from unique yours probaly has the same even if you don't know about them. I am old enough to have known many of them.
I too will remember them.

Posted by pythrr on 2011-11-11 14:34:07

Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?
Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,—
Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones?
Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own.
Paid are its dim defenders by this pomp;
Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone,
The armies who endured that sullen swamp.

Here was the world’s worst wound. And here with pride
‘Their name liveth for ever,’ the Gateway claims.
Was ever an immolation so belied
As these intolerably nameless names?
Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.

"On the Passing of New Menin Gate", Sassoon.

Posted by Cavetroll on 2011-11-11 14:45:40

Nice post. Yes, we celebrate this day in the States. We call it 'Veteran's Day'.

Posted by Calcium on 2011-11-11 16:17:05

Good post Keith. Rated 6.

Posted by harvestmouse on 2011-11-11 17:38:39

Well I'm not sure why somebody would vote this a 1. Either KL's site repuation or are some countries anti rememberance day?

One of my granddads was in the 2nd world war, he got shot in the in the lung, through nose into the eye and in the leg. He then had to crawl 3 miles back to friendly lines. He lost the first 2 right away, but the leg he lost to gangrene.

His anisetic for the amputation was literally a bottle of whisky and a stick to bite down on. Nobody really remembers the Belgian army's contribution, however they suffered just like all the other countries involved.

I don't remember him that well now, as he was so frail during the years I knew him. I remember this worried me a lot, and I had nightmares about it. Every Sunday, he'd buy me shoot football magazine, the disney comic, a sticker set and a ghost milky icecream.

He died in 1985. The 2 things i remember mostly is his leg for dry weather, and the leg with a hole in it for when it rained. And predicting Denis Taylor would win the world snooker championships. Which he did 2 months after my granddad passed away.

Posted by Marcellus on 2011-11-12 00:28:20

well said Keith, well said.

Posted by pythrr on 2011-11-12 01:07:26

nice harvest. lovely story.

:)