[QUOTE=Lemonator;25965803]Remembrance day is cool because I get to miss school.[/QUOTE]
:frog:
I remember The Great War.
[QUOTE=Lemonator;25965803]Remembrance day is cool because I get to miss school.[/QUOTE]
That can't be right, I swear it's not an actual holiday.
You just give a two minute silence on the 11th hour.
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Also, don't turn this into an "x country won the war" thread, please guys. The dead soldiers deserve more than that.
Back in high school, we had off for memorial day but not for veterans/remembrance day.
Now that I'm in college though we never have off for days other than the thanksgiving/christmas junk.
[QUOTE=Darth_GW7;25975487]That can't be right, I swear it's not an actual holiday.
You just give a two minute silence on the 11th hour.
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Also, don't turn this into an "x country won the war" thread, please guys. The dead soldiers deserve more than that.[/QUOTE]
I wasn't actually trying to do that. I was just making a point...I would be the first to say the England's Navy would hand everyone's ass on a silver platter.
[QUOTE=QuickSnapz;25955092]11/11/2010, the day they fixed the graphics bugs in Black ops.[/QUOTE]
You sir, can fuck off, you wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the men who gave their lives.
My nan's brother died on the last day of WWII. He was checking a bridge in Italy for the trucks to get across. It had been rigged with explosives and blew up, killing him outright.
[QUOTE=Kade;25975606]My nan's brother died on the last day of WWII. He was checking a bridge in Italy for the trucks to get across. It had been rigged with explosives and blew up, killing him outright.[/QUOTE]
Have a heart [img]http://static.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/heart.png[/img], Sorry for your loss.
[QUOTE=Kade;25975606]My nan's brother died on the last day of WWII. He was checking a bridge in Italy for the trucks to get across. It had been rigged with explosives and blew up, killing him outright.[/QUOTE]
Those who died in the last few hours are the worst, really..
[QUOTE=Dragon Master;25955595]Great Britain was the greatest country on earth. First truely free men that developed the entre world as we see it today.
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Ahaha oh wow.
I kinda wish I knew someone who was in a war. The only person I know is my friend's dad who was in 'Nam. He got his finger blown off by a grenade. It's such a cool story when he tells it.
[QUOTE=markfu;25975665]Ahaha oh wow.[/QUOTE]
It [b]was.[/b]
I like Remembrance day. I'm American but I've always had a respect for the armed forces in general (most family on my father's side has a colorful military background) so it really doesn't matter. When I was living in Canada, I showed equal respect for the Canadian and British armed forces. I attended the military services and learned the history behind it all. I appreciated the day as you were supposed to.
I still remember back in Highschool though that the school would have a gathering in the gym and we'd have a band play a song, prayers and such and in the background on projectors would be a compilation video with music and movie clips of soldiers fighting and whatnot. The movie clips they used? [B]Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers and Platoon[/B] :v: It's kind of funny.
Dragon Master's ignorance makes my head hurt. It's almost too funny how he actually truly believes the garbage he says.
[QUOTE=abananapeel;25965642][img_thumb]http://i53.tinypic.com/2e1sj9x.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
I disagree with the meaning of the song itself but have a heart anyway for the other picture
Apparently a quarter of all men aged 18 to 40 in Scotland were killing during the First World War.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;25977726]Apparently a quarter of all men aged 18 to 40 in Scotland were killing during the First World War.[/QUOTE]
:smith:
80% of Russian Males born in 1920 did not survive WW2.
On another note, I had 2 grandfathers on opposite sides of WW2.
My Grandfather on my Mother's side was a Sherman Tank Commander who died in the Battle of The Bulge and my Grandfather on my Father's side was a German infantryman who died somewhere on the Eastern Front.
I usually forget about it especially if I'm busy like I probably will be this year.
[QUOTE=LuckyLuke;25975552]You sir, can fuck off, you wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the men who gave their lives.[/QUOTE]
I hate people like you, who's to say if the Germans had won WW2 if people would or wouldn't be here for all you know his family might be German or have German roots.
[QUOTE=Darth_GW7;25975487]That can't be right, I swear it's not an actual holiday.
You just give a two minute silence on the 11th hour.
[editline]10th November 2010[/editline]
Also, don't turn this into an "x country won the war" thread, please guys. The dead soldiers deserve more than that.[/QUOTE]
In the United States it's a Federal Holiday. Schools aren't in session and companies are required to let their employees have the day off or 2x extra pay.
[QUOTE=Dragon Master;25955595]Yup :v: Did you know it was a platoon of Welsh fusiliers that burnt down the origional Whitehouse. During the revolutionary war.[/QUOTE]
:downs:
[QUOTE=Gordy H.;25980142]In the United States it's a Federal Holiday. Schools aren't in session and companies are required to let their employees have the day off or 2x extra pay.[/QUOTE]
What are you talking about? I have school on veterans day.
[QUOTE=NuclearAnnhilation;25980404]What are you talking about? I have school on veterans day.[/QUOTE]
Yup, my bad. Only federal institutions/employees get the things I listed. Though, all the schools in my town are closed on Veterans Day, so that's abit wierd. Must just be a State/Local thing.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;25979388]80% of Russian Males born in 1920 did not survive WW2.
On another note, I had 2 grandfathers on opposite sides of WW2.
My Grandfather on my Mother's side was a Sherman Tank Commander who died in the Battle of The Bulge and my Grandfather on my Father's side was a German infantryman who died somewhere on the Eastern Front.[/QUOTE]
Got you beat on that front. My Grandfather was a rifleman in the Big Red One, first deployment was on Omaha Beach. My Opa was a rifleman in one Panzer Divisions stationed at non other than Omaha Beach. They probably took pot shots at each other.
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[QUOTE=markg06;25979630]
I hate people like you, who's to say if the Germans had won WW2 if people would or wouldn't be here for all you know his family might be German or have German roots.[/QUOTE]
I guess I'd be half there :v:
1,116 in Both world wars.
The Manx have died and fought alongside you Brits and then you turn around and financially back stab us.
Cheers Guys,
I don't condone war, or think it should be romanticized in the least bit, but soldiers risk everything and they should be honored and respected despite the nature of the greater conflict.
I know this is a WW2 vet but still..
Soldiers from WW1 and WW2 gave their LIVEs for their land and loved ones.
and this happens to a WW2 veteran.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEXO740Wre0[/url]
Why. Just fucking why. :frown:
i will remember these vets for as long as i live.
But we don't get a day off in school to visit veterans' graves or sites of the wars.
My Jrotc battalion celebrated Veteran's day this morning by gathering in formation in our Jrotc uniforms and saluted the flag while our Honor Guard raised the flag. We know Veteran's day is tomorrow here in America but we decided to celebrate it today considering no school tomorrow.
My grandfather was a mortar-man and,(luckily) caught typhoid before the squadron he was in was sent to Russia.
My school's Jrotc is doing the Veterans Day Parade tomorrow morning. Oh the joy of standing at attention for three hours in the freezing cold.
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