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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 2:27 pm
In memory of all the veterans who gave their lives in many wars, for Canada (and those in the USA, who fought for America ) And in support of all the veterans who still live and all the soldiers who still fight for their homeland today. In Canada, we wear poppies for the first 2 weeks of Nov. to honour our veterans, thanks to a wonderful poem written by a Canadian soldier/doctor (Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae )who died in WW1. Flanders Field was the cemetery where many WW1 soldiers were buried. In Flanders Fields By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army 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.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 2:43 pm
(minute of silence) Thanks, Jan, for reminding everyone. I think - given current affairs - it's very important that tomorrow, everyone takes a minute to stop and reflect on the lives that have been - are are still - given in the name of your country. No matter your position on the current war, I think it's safe to assume that we all agree on one thing: we want those kids to come home, soon and safe.
Lest We Forget
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 8:02 pm
the minute of silence is held at 11 am isn't it. Just wanted to check. I am taking Hilary to the services at the cynotap(sp) tomorrow.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 3:08 am
In honor of a friend of mine who founded Bugles Across America, I will be sounding TAPS tomorrow (or today, for those who are just getting up). I will be playing it in memory of my Uncle Bob, and for all those who have served, and for those who continue to serve. Since I don't play the bugle, I will sound taps from a download from THIS site. Scroll slightly down the page and look under "Bugle Signals, Calls and Marches." Items 14, 14a and 15 give you a variety of ways to play/download a playing of TAPS.
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 4:55 am

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Zules
Member
08-21-2000
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 7:54 am

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Moondance
Member
07-30-2000
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 8:03 am
For Col. Paul Underwood - 3-16-66(captured) My POW/MIA bracelet I wore for years. I will never forget him or his service
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 8:15 am
This day cannot go by without thinking of my father's service in Korea in the coldest winter he ever experienced wearing only summer gear. He was one of those Marines who was stuck in the Chosin Reservoir and marched down out of there freezing and starving. I still thank him for his service every Veteran's Day. And for the men and women who serve today in Afghanistan and Iraq...thank you!

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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 9:19 am
My sincere thanks go out to all Veterans of the past and present wars and to all those that have served this country to allow us all to be free. If it weren't for these brave people we would not have the things we have today.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 10:36 am

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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 11:41 am
Taps (Note: there are no "official" words to Taps below are the most popular.) Day is done, gone the sun, From the hills, from the lake, From the skies. All is well, safely rest, God is nigh. Go to sleep, peaceful sleep, May the soldier or sailor, God keep. On the land or the deep, Safe in sleep. Love, good night, Must thou go, When the day, And the night Need thee so? All is well. Speedeth all To their rest. Fades the light; And afar Goeth day, And the stars Shineth bright, Fare thee well; Day has gone, Night is on. Thanks and praise, For our days, 'Neath the sun, Neath the stars, 'Neath the sky, As we go, This we know, God is nigh. http://www.usmemorialday.org/taps.html
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 1:32 pm
THE VETERAN'S VISION --Walt Whitman WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow rests at home, and the mystic midnight passes, And through the stillness, through the dark, I hear, just hear, the breath of my infant, There in the room, as I wake from sleep, this vision presses upon me: The engagement opens there and then, in my busy brain unreal; The skirmishers begin -- they crawl cautiously ahead -- I hear the irregular snap! snap! I hear the sounds of the different missiles -- the short t-h-t! t-h-t! of the rifle balls; I see the shells exploding, leaving small white clouds -- I hear the great shells shrieking as they pass; The grape, like the hum and whirr of wind through the trees, (quick, tumultuous, now the contest rages!) All the scenes at the batteries themselves rise in detail before me again; The crashing and smoking -- the pride of the men in their pieces; The chief gunner ranges and sights his piece, and selects a fuse of the right time; After firing, I see him lean aside, and look eagerly off to note the effect; -- Elsewhere I hear the cry of a regiment charging -- (the young colonel leads himself this time, with brandish'd sword;) I see the gaps cut by the enemy's volleys, (quickly fill'd up -- no delay;) I breathe the suffocating smoke -- then the flat clouds hover low, concealing all; Now a strange lull comes for a few seconds, not a shot fired on either side; Then resumed, the chaos louder than ever, with eager calls, and orders of officers; While from some distant part of the field the wind wafts to my ears a shout of applause, (some special success;) And ever the sound of the cannon, far or near, (rousing, even in dreams, a devilish exultation, and all the old mad joy, in the depths of my soul;) And ever the hastening of infantry shifting positions -- batteries, cavalry, moving hither and thither; (The falling, dying, I heed not -- the wounded, dripping and red, I heed not -- some to the rear are hobbling;) Grime, heat, rush -- aid-de-camps galloping by, or on a full run; With the patter of small arms, the warning s-s-t of the rifles, (these in my vision I hear or see,) And bombs bursting in air, and at night the vari-color'd rockets.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 2:05 pm
"The Land of the Free, Because of the Brave"
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, November 12, 2004 - 2:48 am
Marine Cpl. David Antonio Garcia stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier Thursday and was sworn in as an American citizen - after already serving under the U.S. flag in Iraq. The native of Mexico was among 80 sailors and Marines from 25 countries - from Canada to Syria - who became citizens in a Veterans Day ceremony aboard the USS Midway, a reward for putting their lives on the line for their adopted country. The ceremony, watched by more than 100 cheering relatives, came as the nation observed Veterans Day with about 160,000 troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan - some of them locked in fierce house-to-house fighting in Fallujah. "I wouldn't want to compare myself to World War veterans or Vietnam veterans," said Garcia, 21, who was with combat engineers who cleared the path for tanks to roll into Iraq. "But I feel some of what they must feel today. I know what it's like to leave loved ones and not to know if you will come back." link Please Donate If You Can: Marine Corps League Army Emergency Relief Air Force Aid Society Helping Our Heroes Foundation Operation USO Cares Navy Mutual Aid Society

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Cindori
Member
07-25-2003
| Friday, November 12, 2004 - 6:03 am
   

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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 4:42 pm
Attention all poppy-wearing Canadians: I just learned this yesterday, and I thought I would post it, in case other people didn't know either. What do you do with your poppy after November 11th? Answer: Apparently, we are supposed to GO to a cenotaph, or place to remember our veterans (Victory Square here in Vancouver), take off our poppy, and place it on the monument. Apparently it a way to ensure that we actually take time out of our life, to go pay our respects. I'm 29 yrs old, and I had never heard that before. Then someone commented that I was still wearing my poppy, and I said I hadn't taken it off yet, and I expressed a bit of wonder as to what the appropriate date was to stop wearing it. The guy told me that you stop wearing it when you go place it at the cenotaph (see story above). Interesting eh?
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 5:04 pm
Knew that Eeyoreslament but only because of attending the kids Rememberance day services at school over the years and watching all the kids take off their poppies, put them on their classes wreath and take them to the front of the gym to lay it down at the makeshift cenotaph. I asked a teacher and had it explained to me.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 7:38 pm
What's a cenotaph?
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 7:57 pm
Serate, Here is the best I could find: A cenotaph is a tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere. The word derives from the Greek words kenos, "empty" and taphos, "tomb". Probably the best-known cenotaph in the modern world is the one that stands in Whitehall, London. It was constructed from Portland stone between 1919-1920 by Sir Edwin Lutyens to replace an identical plaster cenotaph erected in 1919 for the Allied Victory Parade. It is undecorated save for a carved wreath on each end and the words "The Glorious Dead". It is flanked on each side by the flags of the United Kingdom, the Royal Navy, the British Army, the Royal Air Force and the Merchant Navy. The Cenotaph is the site of the annual national service of remembrance held at 11 a.m. on the closest Sunday to the 11th November (Armistice Day). Many cenotaphs exist elsewhere in the world. The erection of cenotaphs was a common tradition in ancient times (such as in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece) and the practice is still continued around the world. Lutyens' cenotaph influenced the design of many other war memorials in Britain and the British sectors of the Western Front. The monument to John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza in Dallas is often described as a cenotaph. A building intended to serve as a tomb for Abraham Lincoln on the Mall in Washington, D. C is literally a cenotaph, as he is not buried there, but rather in his beloved Springfield, Illinois; however, as this buliding is now used for the headquarters of the American Pharmacutical Association, it is not usually thought of as such. The cenotaph concept is by no means confined to Europe. One of the most famous non-European examples is the concrete Memorial Cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Park, designed by Kenzo Tange to commemorate the 200,000 victims of the August 1945 atomic bomb attack. Cenotaphs have also been the subject of a number of famous paintings, notably The Cenotaph to Reynold's Memory (John Constable, c. 1833) and The Cenotaph of Jean Jacques Rousseau (Hubert Robert, 1794).
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 8:10 pm
Thanks JMM. I usually put my poppies on my purse to help remind me and others for more than just Veterans Day.
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