It's on Thursday, no clapping allowed. No cheers. No confetti. Just a moment of silence. Be serious. No joke...
I'll be wearing a coquelicot for the week.:ayecapn:
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It's on Thursday, no clapping allowed. No cheers. No confetti. Just a moment of silence. Be serious. No joke...
I'll be wearing a coquelicot for the week.:ayecapn:
Happy 'Veteran's day' on thursday.
What's a coquelicot?:confused:Quote:
Originally posted by nafklt
It's on Thursday, no clapping allowed. No cheers. No confetti. Just a moment of silence. Be serious. No joke...
I'll be wearing a coquelicot for the week.:ayecapn:
I don't know.:confused:Quote:
Originally posted by Azerane
What's a coquelicot?:confused:
And now I know who 'Nafklt' is. :confused:
hehe yes, and I thought since somebody replied that I was going to know, oh well, we can not know what it is together! :DQuote:
Originally posted by tlkfan
And now I know who 'Nafklt' is. :confused:
It's alright, don't stree people, I've worked out what a coquelicot is, it's a poppy! :D And for those of you who don't know what a poppy is, it's a colquelicot! :D :cheese: it's a type of flower!
Hehe. I think it's a flower since yahoo images showed a pic of a red flower. Poppy?:confused:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/searc...img-t&toggle=1
Oh damn. i replied too slow. oh well.:cheese:
that's alright, you beat me at putting a piccy up, so I will just put up the poem....
In Flanders Fields
"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."
I decided that I really like this poem, it's a really nice tribute to all those soldiers who fought and died. God bless them all.
EDIT: Forgot to put the author... John McCrae
Oh wait. I forgot the author...:confused: Didn't he or she die in WWI?:confused:
I also love this war poem, I first heard it in a movie called Memphis Belle, it's a very old war movie and this is a wonderful poem, I especially love the last three lines.
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
"I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan's poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death."
-- William Butler Yeats
This is a poem I wrote two months ago after reading heaps of war poems because war poems are amazing and I wanted to contribute something for the people who were lost so I wrote this... it's not very good.
Anyway, for lack of a better name I called it "Remember the Lost"
"There just in front lay the many dead
Their bodies deep with a bloody red
No one knew just how they died
But every man had nearly cried
The ground was sealed full of their death
Of men who?d taken their last breath
There?s a road they all walk down
Before in their own blood they drown
The soldiers of this mighty war
Have seen what we have never before
How much do we owe these men?
The ones who never returned again
Why do we seem to look and stare
And only for our lives do care
No one seems to know the truth
About the bravery of these youth
Who fought so hard, who really tried
To keep their country and their pride
Who knows the names of these men past?
Who were freed from war, death classed
Who knows the pieces of these men?
That lay around the fields back then
Are they to be always forgotten?
Left alone to become just rotten
Pictures in our memories
Are not enough for men like these
They fought and died for you and me
A picture of our history
If we do remember them
Compassion from out hearts will stem
Let us not forget the diggers
Pulled down by cold, relenting triggers"
-By Me! :D
Wow! Really great poems Azerane!:cheese:
thanks, much appreciated. I try my best! :D
Is there Veteran's day in Australia?:confused:
Happy Veteran's day when ever it is... for us it is in the beggining of the year I think... so not for a while...
Yeah, it's the same thing but we call it Rememberance Day, do you call it Veteran's Day? I've never heard that before...:confused: oh well :cheese: I was actually suprised that you have it, I thought it was an Australian thing... heh, my mistake!
Okay, which countries have Veteran's Day/Remembrance Day? And on what day?
Well, the UK has it on 11th November.
We normally have 1 minutes silence on that day too.Quote:
Originally posted by Monai
Well, the UK has it on 11th November.
:confused: I don't know what it is... I think it doesn't exist in the countries where I've lived :confused:
Usually at 11:11 am.Quote:
Originally posted by King Simba
We normally have 1 minutes silence on that day too.
ah yeh, i didnt know they were called that, btu we wear fake poppys aswell
Isn't this the same as memorial day in the USA? In that case it is the last weekend in May.
In canada, It's on the second weekend of November, so it's also called memorial weekend.
silencing for who ever died on the senseless war.:(
In Australia it's called Rememberance Day and it's on the 11th of November, on the 11th minute, of the 11th hour, of the 11th month, we have one minutes silence and we usually have a service at school for it and someone recits the poem "In Flander's Fields" and then someone plays that war rememberance song on a bugle! Well that's what used to happen at my old school anyway! I thought it was nice.
Here in Canada, they call it Remembrance Day, it's on November 11th.;) We also have an assembly at school on that day...:P The assembly usually starts a 1:33PM:p
EDIT:
A poppy!:ayecapn:Quote:
Originally posted by Azerane
What's a coquelicot?:confused:
That's me!:ayecapn: Er..umm welcome to Lea!:cheese:Quote:
Originally posted by tlkfan
And now I know who 'Nafklt' is.:confused:
Hehe, thanks but I kind of figured it out already! :D :cheese:Quote:
Originally posted by nafklt
A poppy!:ayecapn:
EDIT: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...rane/Poppy.jpg
My mistake...:irule:Quote:
Originally posted by Azerane
Hehe, thanks but I kind of figured it out already! :D :cheese:
EDIT: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...rane/Poppy.jpg
lol all of you do get that poppies=drugs right?
anywhoo, happy veterans day (my dad is a vet ;))
hmm i get school off on thursday..but then i have to go back to school on friday...doesnt make much sense to me lol
Poppies=drugs?:confused:
Wb Jannali!:cheese:
yes, there are drugs (cant remember which one specifically) that are made out of poppies. thats why in the wizard of oz dorothy fell asleep in the field of poppies, it was a drug reference
and thanks for the welcome nafklt :hugs:
:lol: XDQuote:
Originally posted by jannali
yes, there are drugs (cant remember which one specifically) that are made out of poppies. thats why in the wizard of oz dorothy fell asleep in the field of poppies, it was a drug reference
and thanks for the welcome nafklt :hugs:
http://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/5462/...es/k0gy2l8.jpg
exacty :bleen: ;)
Oh mighty wizard of Oz, I need a brain...:P:ayecapn:Quote:
Originally posted by jannali
exacty :bleen: ;)
:lol::lol::lol:
:scream:But he won't give it to me...:P
:lol: naflkt, just :lol:
sorry everyone for going so off topic hehe ^^'
http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/handwritten.gif
Original handwritten poem about "Flanders Fields" in France by Canadian John McRae...:ayecapn:
what have i done? you're never gonna stop with the poppies now huh nafklt? :lol: