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    Remembrance Day

    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.

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    Happy 'Veteran's day' on thursday.

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    Re: Remembrance Day

    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.
    What's a coquelicot?
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    Re: Re: Remembrance Day

    Originally posted by Azerane
    What's a coquelicot?
    I don't know.

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    And now I know who 'Nafklt' is.

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    Originally posted by tlkfan
    And now I know who 'Nafklt' is.
    hehe yes, and I thought since somebody replied that I was going to know, oh well, we can not know what it is together!
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    It's alright, don't stree people, I've worked out what a coquelicot is, it's a poppy! And for those of you who don't know what a poppy is, it's a colquelicot! it's a type of flower!
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    Hehe. I think it's a flower since yahoo images showed a pic of a red flower. Poppy?

    http://images.search.yahoo.com/searc...img-t&toggle=1

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    Oh damn. i replied too slow. oh well.

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    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
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    Oh wait. I forgot the author... Didn't he or she die in WWI?

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    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"

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    Wow! Really great poems Azerane!

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    thanks, much appreciated. I try my best!
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    Is there Veteran's day in Australia?

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    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...

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    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... oh well I was actually suprised that you have it, I thought it was an Australian thing... heh, my mistake!
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    Okay, which countries have Veteran's Day/Remembrance Day? And on what day?

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    Well, the UK has it on 11th November.

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    Originally posted by Monai
    Well, the UK has it on 11th November.
    We normally have 1 minutes silence on that day too.

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