Armistice Day

[Marozz]

I can't pist a link since I'm on my phone but one of my favourite commemoration songs is "the band played Waltzing Matilda".

Worth looking up.

There you go, post 18

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I can't pist a link since I'm on my phone but one of my favourite commemoration songs is "the band played Waltzing Matilda".

Worth looking up.

Silly me, the song I posted isn't Waltzing Matilda, but Willie McBride....both lovely songs.

[Duty]

The vibe on the street here when I went to the shop just now is...bizarre. Nothing seems to make sense today, to me for one. I guess there are remembrance days and then there are remembrance days. I mean FFS, it's not like WW1 just popped into existence today. Arbitrary timeframes and all that. Unlike with the millennium, I very much doubt the KLF will reform to make a track called "XXXX the Armistice centenary" however.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The scenes appear to be from Gallipoli early on.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I have a small collection of DeV's speeches during WWII. I lol'd several time. "Bugger off" never was spoken so bluntly.

Well, de Valera was good at saying 'Bugger off' because he was so used to it having been directed at him.  Rightly so.

Boru

[Brian37]

The scenes appear to be from Gallipoli early on.

That song literally made me cry. I just get so frustrated with my fellow humans knowing how much potential good and empathy we can have for our fellow humans, yet we do such cruel and inhuman things to each other.

[Pat Mustard]

I can't pist a link since I'm on my phone but one of my favourite commemoration songs is "the band played Waltzing Matilda".

Worth looking up.

There you go, post 18

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I can't pist a link since I'm on my phone but one of my favourite commemoration songs is "the band played Waltzing Matilda".

Worth looking up.

Silly me, the song I posted isn't Waltzing Matilda, but Willie McBride....both lovely songs.

Same artist wrote the songs.

My Favourite WW1 poem:

Base Details
Siegfried Sassoon
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath
I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
And speed glum heroes up the line to death.
You'd see me with my puffy petulant face,
Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel,
Reading the Roll of Honour. "Poor young chap,"
I'd say — "I used to know his father well;
Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap."
And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
I'd toddle safely home and die — in bed.

The war in which every country involved was the bad guy.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Going Home - Robert Service

I'm goin' 'ome to Blighty -- ain't I glad to 'ave the chance!
I'm loaded up wiv fightin', and I've 'ad my fill o' France;
I'm feelin' so excited-like, I want to sing and dance,
For I'm goin' 'ome to Blighty in the mawnin'.

I'm goin' 'ome to Blighty: can you wonder as I'm gay?
I've got a wound I wouldn't sell for 'alf a year o' pay;
A harm that's mashed to jelly in the nicest sort o' way,
For it takes me 'ome to Blighty in the mawnin'.

'Ow everlastin' keen I was on gettin' to the front!
I'd ginger for a dozen, and I 'elped to bear the brunt;
But Cheese and Crust! I'm crazy, now I've done me little stunt,
To sniff the air of Blighty in the mawnin'.

I've looked upon the wine that's white, and on the wine that's red;
I've looked on cider flowin', till it fairly turned me 'ead;
But oh, the finest scoff will be, when all is done and said,
A pint o' Bass in Blighty in the mawnin'.

I'm goin' back to Blighty, which I left to strafe the 'Un;
I've fought in bloody battles, and I've 'ad a 'eap of fun;
But now me flipper's busted, and I think me dooty's done,
And I'll kiss me gel in Blighty in the mawnin'.

Oh, there be furrin' lands to see, and some of 'em be fine;
And there be furrin' gels to kiss, and scented furrin' wine;
But there's no land like England, and no other gel like mine:
Thank Gawd for dear old Blighty in the mawnin'.                         

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Boru

[Brian37]

No More Room, By Brian37

Our local thought
Always short sighted
Heros die
All get knighted 

Population boom
Makes it null
To kill more 
And what for?

The globe not flat
Not infinite 
There is no victor
If our species forgets

Weapons of war
Are now far advanced
The push of a button
Our species could end

It is bad enough
We cannot agree
But at a minimum
The world should see

Mutual destruction
Is the age we live
No more room
To expand

Diplomacy
Is the only path
It is the only way
To honor the dead

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It is not weakness to avoid war. It is not isolationism or nationalism either. 

It is the realization that war is our species failure to understand we are the same species.

There was a time war was more affordable to the planet because our species population was smaller and our weapons not so destructive. But we are way beyond that, and far to big as a population, and far too interconnected with weapons that could make us go extinct.

[Duty]

I don't like poetry.

My mother, when she visited yesterday with my grandmother, said if only political financial contributions were limited in the states, as they are in Europe, he wouldn't have been elected.

[Minimalist]

Because people don't remember history.

Or, in the WLB's case, never knew it.