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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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.
Happy 'Veteran's day' on thursday.
What's a coquelicot?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.
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I don't know.Originally posted by Azerane
What's a coquelicot?
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!Originally posted by tlkfan
And now I know who 'Nafklt' is.
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It's alright, don't stree people, I've worked out what a coquelicot is, it's a poppy!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
Oh damn. i replied too slow. oh well.
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...
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!
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Wow! Really great poems Azerane!
thanks, much appreciated. I try my best!
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Is there Veteran's day in Australia?
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...
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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.Originally posted by Monai
Well, the UK has it on 11th November.
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