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RE: Armistice Day
November 11, 2018 at 7:26 am
(November 11, 2018 at 7:22 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (November 11, 2018 at 7:12 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: The Guns, by Private Baldrick.
Boom, boom, boom, boom,
Boom, boom, boom.
Boom, boom, boom, boom,
Boom, boom, boom!
On a serious note.
Thank you to those who have served.
Go here and you can hear the guns go silent. People stopped dying for pools of water and blood amidst the mud.
That was amazing.
Bit of pertinent trivia (no Googling, please). When was the First World War first called 'The First World War'?
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RE: Armistice Day
November 11, 2018 at 7:38 am
Because people don't remember history.
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RE: Armistice Day
November 11, 2018 at 7:41 am
I know it is a music video, but I think this Metallica song is moving in it' lyrics about the horrors of war.
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RE: Armistice Day
November 11, 2018 at 7:41 am
Ummm...'when', not 'why'.
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RE: Armistice Day
November 11, 2018 at 8:02 am
And another song from Metallica about the horrors of war.
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RE: Armistice Day
November 11, 2018 at 8:04 am
There are commemorations being held here in Ireland, which wasn't always the case due then history between Ireland and Britain. About 35,000 Irish men and women died in the first World War.
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RE: Armistice Day
November 11, 2018 at 8:07 am
I have a small collection of DeV's speeches during WWII. I lol'd several time. "Bugger off" never was spoken so bluntly.
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RE: Armistice Day
November 11, 2018 at 8:08 am
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2018 at 7:47 pm by The Valkyrie.)
I can't post a link since I'm on my phone but one of my favourite commemoration songs is "the band played Waltzing Matilda".
Worth looking up.
Dying to live, living to die.