11th November...

[Solus]

remembrance day....

lest we forget....

[Cole]

remembrance day....

lest we forget....

True, the war with biggest military losses if not mistaken.

[semper]

yes, even for me it was quite a site to have seen the battlefields and memorials in western europe. makes remembrance all the more meaningful.

Although I am ashamed to say many of my peer group and beyond do not recognise the day in sufficient methods, let a lone even wear a poppy.

[Juliette]

Homage to a great man. Who so happens to be the figurehead of Dutch remembrances in relation to any Veterans Day, although he has passed away himself a few years ago. It is a sad story, indeed.

[Mordack]

I think we're down to three veterans in the UK now.

I'm off to the Remembrance Service in a few hours.. usually quite a humbling experience. A majority of this forum's users would have been in active service had they been born a litte under a hundred years ago. It's strange to think.

[Cole]

People hoped this kind of atrocity would never happen again, and sadly, 21 years later..it happend again.
It was meant to happen anyway, two great powers facing on such a small continent. Power hungry states are to blame. How the plans of few guys can kill millions of people.

[Londo Mollari]

the "war to end all wars", how ironic

such a shame that so many had to lose there lives

[Cole]

7 posts...wow!
Would have expected more people to take care about that historical date.
Should I remind 10mil people died and 23mil were wounded (and wounded in this war isn't only like getting a bullet on the leg...more like loosing legs or hands)?

[buck]

Hmm...Ive been to the battlefields in western europe, You can still see where the chalk in the ground has been blown up and strewn across the fields in and around Ypres.

Wars will never be faught like that again, but they are still faught.

Jim : Wounded wasnt just getting shot, it was haveing limbs torn off by flying pieces of shrapnel...And of course, if you where lucky, you only got blinded by mustard gas, as apposed to haveing your lungs explode.

[Solus]

Hmm...Ive been to the battlefields in western europe, You can still see where the chalk in the ground has been blown up and strewn across the fields in and around Ypres.

Wars will never be faught like that again, but they are still faught.

Jim : Wounded wasnt just getting shot, it was haveing limbs torn off by flying pieces of shrapnel...And of course, if you where lucky, you only got blinded by mustard gas, as apposed to haveing your lungs explode.

even if people werent injured...... just those who knew people who did....... those who saw them come back changed men...... and the mental anguish of those who were lucky enough to return unharmed but saw those close friends of theirs die or be wounded...... that would be enough of a hell...

RIP those who died directly and indirectly because of combat....... and those who might not have died due to it but had to see the results.....

[Cole]

Hmm...Ive been to the battlefields in western europe, You can still see where the chalk in the ground has been blown up and strewn across the fields in and around Ypres.

Wars will never be faught like that again, but they are still faught.

Jim : Wounded wasnt just getting shot, it was haveing limbs torn off by flying pieces of shrapnel...And of course, if you where lucky, you only got blinded by mustard gas, as apposed to haveing your lungs explode.

That's what I said...I said you lost arms, hands or legs. Got to agree I should have make it be more obviously written.

And let's not forget either spanish fever or whatever it was called..

[Rudy Peña]

Hooah

Hooah

Hooah

&

Semper Fi!



You how fraked up the US drinnking age is?


You got to be 21 years old to drink beer, but at 18 years old you can get blown up, have a limb blown off, get hit with IEDs and get a Medical Discharge from the military at 19 years old and got to wait 2 more years to legaly drink beer.

[Cole]

uh?

[Solus]

uh?

hes saying this is a messed up world that his government wont let someone our age get a little tipsy but theyre willing to send them into the hell that is war.

at least thats my enterpretation.....

rudy, clarification?

[David Bliss]

Praise God for all the soldiers who fight to protect us.