#1230196
- Mon Nov 11 2019 09:00 PM
Re: A happy Armistice Day/Veteran' Day to everyone
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the G-man
Officially "too old for this shit"
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#1230210
- Wed Nov 13 2019 09:00 AM
Re: A happy Armistice Day/Veteran' Day to everyone
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Wonder Boy
brutally Kamphausened
Registered: Wed Sep 12 2001
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At first glance I thought it was the Thanksgiving episode
"Oh, the humanity!"
"With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly..."
Man, so hilarious. As was the rest of the WKRP series. It was cancelled, then they brought it back, and it was just as well-produced in the second round.
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#1230244
- Mon Nov 18 2019 08:03 PM
Re: A happy Armistice Day/Veteran' Day to everyone
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First Amongst Daves
Banned from the DCMBs since 2002.
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My great uncle died in France a few weeks before the war ended in 1918. He was about 24. I've always felt a strong sense of attachment to the man, because, take away the Kitchener moustache, he looks just like me. My great grandfather still missed his brother when he, too, finally died aged 94. I was 13 when my great grandfather died, so in a different universe I might have met my great uncle.
"On the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, the guns fell silent. Lest we forget."
(Of course, everyone did, and keeps forgetting.)
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#1230247
- Tue Nov 19 2019 02:09 PM
Re: A happy Armistice Day/Veteran' Day to everyone
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Wonder Boy
brutally Kamphausened
Registered: Wed Sep 12 2001
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I'm sorry that your uncle had to die so young, Dave. And that the war caused you to lose the opportunity to meet him.
Knowledge of how many died in two world wars at a very young age, and later wars like Korea and Vietnam, reminds us all how fortunate we are to have grown up in the era we did, to not have to die, either as soldiers or as civilians, in devastating wars.
"On the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, the guns fell silent. Lest we forget."
(Of course, everyone did, and keeps forgetting.)
In the United States (up until the Cultural Marxist revisionists took over our education system, anyway) virtually everyone was familiar with that World War I poem, and remembered Armistice day on Nov 11th by recalling that line.
Craig Russell did a nice job with that poem in one of the two volumes of 9-11 tribute stories:
http://12comic.com/issue.jsp?p=7&id=19022702232794dn
Among many great contributions.
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