Lest we forget

[Level]

[KaOz]

[Level]

Seems like a lot of people have forgotten.........

[Lady E]

not me, how could i working as an english teacher? all they do is study war. poems about war, books about war. articles about war. comedy programmes about war, films about war.

friday is official day of remembrance though.

i bought my poppy on saturday.

[Sheridan]

what are you guys remembering?

[stinkfinger]

i can't remember

[decadnids]

sheridan, the death of soldiers in the great war (and second world war - and i guess other conflicts)/

[Sheridan]

ahh, fair enough.
so it is like our memorial day. although no single war is singled out.

what does the poppy represent?

[Whuffle]

Poppies have come to represent spilt blood, not only because of their colour, but because the battlefields rapidly turned into meadows awash with poppies and other flowers due to the blood-enriched soil.

[gypsy_cream]

dark

[Whuffle]

i guess so. It also represents life and beauty coming out of something horrible tho...

[big raff]

oh yes. the earl haig poppy fund.

In 1916 Haig was responsible for the Battle of the Somme, which cost 420,000 British casualties over four months for minimal gain. The next year saw further stalemate: the US entered the war in April but the French command wanted to stay on the defensive until the first of the Americans arrived. This frustrated Haig, who was subordinate to the French general Robert Nivelle. From May he was given more authority and determined to defeat the Germans with a purely British offensive. The resulting Third Battle of Ypres from July to November 1917 (also called Passchendaele) saw further enormous British casualties that shocked the public back home.

[skosh]

i forgot to remember but i remember other times throughout the year when i'm not being told to remember and i remember everytime i talk to my mum and she reminisces about the good old days of war

so i won't feel guilty about forgetting

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by skosh
she reminisces about the good old days of war

indeed, war kicks ass.

[skosh]

my mum was proud of her propellor polishing days :x..i'm more of a pacifist hippy than she is even tho i smell better

actually isnt it next sunday? which means we havent forgotten yet

white poppies are the new black i believe

better get off here before i get shouted at by gypo and jamoid for shittalkin

[gypsy_cream]

isnt it on the 11th we are supposed to remember?

[skosh]

Originally posted by gypsy_cream
isnt it on the 11th we are supposed to remember?

the closest sunday innit

thats why its called remembrance sunday

[Paddy]

Originally posted by Level
Seems like a lot of people have forgotten.........

i haven't forgotten, i get my bursary on the eleventh :/

just kidding, i never forget. it's quite possible none of us would be here if it wasn't for those who died.

[Paddy]

Originally posted by Sheridan
what are you guys remembering?

sheridan, it all ended on the eleventh minute, of the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. rememberance day, remember it sonny.

it can all get very sombre in this country around this time of year.

[e_wann]

how does the poem go: in flanders fields the poppys grow, ... and for so far my schoolbackpackages: but i m gonna search it up after my vacation to poland until sunday : cheap drunk and dropdeadgorious views in crystalclear eyes

[Spandex]

We're about to endure one of the most teeth-grindingly awful moments of the year when Blair will look sombre and pretend to care about those who died in war... before scuttling back behind his plexiglass screen and giving the order to drop bombs on somebody else.

Someone ought to tell the heartless cunt that "lest we forget" is supposed to be about not letting it happen again.

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by niknak


sheridan, it all ended on the eleventh minute, of the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. rememberance day, remember it sonny.

it can all get very sombre in this country around this time of year.

hell, on our memorial day we don't have to go to work.
so people go out and shop and drink and eat.
we really know how to do it.