Thank you to SSS and the thousands of TBP veterans who have served our country so honorably. I wish the leadership who sent you into battle weren’t so corrupt and captured by the military industrial complex. But, it doesn’t diminish your sacrifice. I wish you all the best and hope Trump keeps his promise to fix the VA.
In Flanders Fields
by John McCrae
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.
A sign in a small Allied WWII cemetery in Algiers:
As you go by this way
Think of us and say
We gave our today
For your tomorrow
RVN 1969
I had CKLW, a Canadian station I can pick up when near Detroit, on last night. Remembrance Day is very special to them. They were broadcasting news and stories about today’s gatherings at local cenotaphs, about school children practicing ‘Amazing Grace’ and patriotic hymns…sounded like America, pre-1965, on Memorial Day. It made me think of what we have lost.
Thank you, veterans, for serving a country which lost, but may yet regain a sense of itself as something worth dying for.
ss: the election proved that not all of us were lost. Now it up to Trump to take us forward and not backslide into a Cuckservative fog. The libtards are in a total meltdown and there is no reason for him to “reach out”. Let ’em stew in their own putrid juices for a while. My best to fellow vets on TBP.
Thank you to all that have served and all that are serving.
Our freedom is a result of your efforts.
I was going to include another goofy photo of me in my jet jammies back in the day, but Photobucket is harassing me to upgrade so you will just have to read my old article and remember when photobucket let me plague the pages of TBP with photos that had little purpose other than to provide graphic interest to non-readers. See, Laura Schaub? I was paying attention in layout and design class.
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Thanks, Admin. Les we forget.
My Grandfather and Father( both veterans now gone to heaven) would be proud of the Americans who help get Trump elected( including the people on this site ).I know it has given me some hope that at least some parts of our country can be saved from total destruction.
Thank you veterans.Notice gov tried to take back sign up bonuses close to veterans day as a black eye from Obama admin.Never will this happen from Trump!
Pray for the families of the victims of Hillary and Obama’s Benghazi .Were they arms running to Syria?Trump will never aid the enemy!What happened to Holder shipping weapons to Mexico cartel investigation?Fast and Furious.What happened to Michael Obama and Val Jarrett missing billions Obamacare funds no investigation?Drain the swamp!
Hi Admin,
Thanks for posting this. My daughter has this poem memorized word for word and has spoken it in her school in front of an assembly of hundreds. We will be at the cenotaph today at the 11th hour to honour our war dead.
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Infantrymen going ashore from the H.M.C.S. Prince Henry. June 6th, 1944
No one has fought for my freedom since the War of 1812. I will be glad to sympathize with you as victims of fraud but otherwise you’re just another version of Redcoats.
My opinion seems to be unpopular but apparently not as unpopular as the anonymous dude just previous to my comment who has disappeared.
There is a good reason Stevo
Is it too much to ask to put aside politics for one day and remember those who are gone. Go troll some other thread but for me at least today is just that.
Remembrance Day.
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Joe MacFarlane
My Great Uncle
Frank Gardner
My GrandFather
My Grampie came home. My Great Uncle Didn’t
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In Flanders Fields
Author:
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
Canadian Physician Doctor during WW I
Died: January 1918 in France.
He was just 45 years old.
Please give this a listen. Invest just a pittance of time.
Terry Kelly
A fine Nova Scotian
Nice… shared with 12 hillbillies.
a lot of MacRae coarsing through my weathered veins….
Where is SSS? Have not seen him in weeks. Is he OK?
He posted a comment the other day. I suspect he’s taking the painfully evident corruption of some of his cherished institutions like the FBI badly. Or maybe he’s discovered the joys of Ganja and golf!
We’ve been emailing. He’s fine. He was bummed by Comey and the FBI. Hopefully, Trump’s victory will lift his spirits.
He said Hillary had a 90% chance of winning. This in the late evening when she was falling behind.
This song was written originally as a lament to a bad break-up with a girlfriend gone astray. It has however become something of an anthem to some Canadians to loss in war. An absolutely great song in my opinion.
I always think of Mark Twains War Prayer on Veterans Day.
Consider this, which I sent to friends just a few months ago. I don’t deserve a place among these vets, but I hope they would welcome me to their table.
“As we approach the 240th anniversary of July the Fourth, please remember to think, if for only a moment or two, about those brave Founders and largely nameless, faceless American revolutionary soldiers who served the cause of our nation’s freedom. Most of those who died in the struggle have no internment in hallowed ground such as Arlington.
We cannot walk among their gravesites, much less know their names. Yet they faced, and eventually defeated, the most powerful armed force in the world. But what we can do is remember what they did. No greater gift has ever been bestowed on us by any American generation.”
Thanks, SSS. Nice to see you.