What do you think of "Vets"?
 

Yeah I wanna hear what everyone has to say about the forum board "Vets" also November 11th is comming up so what are you doing to show respect. My self personally I am going to read a book all day that has nothing to do with war or any event with death involved. So I might just see a couple events around town then take the day easy and do my school work or something in that manner.

What the fuck does nov11 have to do with anything

what happens in nov 11?

Uhh...Its Rememberance Day.

November 11th is VETERANS DAY. But I THINK Shroom eater is talking about "Vets" on these boards.

My personal opinion:
If you registered AND posted reguarly in the summer of 2001.

who cares if someones a vet or not

For Rememberance Day I'll probably watch some of the ceremonies on TV, and I'll hang up the Canadian Flag.

once again...CANADA is a country ABOVE America and we ALSO have days to REMEMBER our solidiers, fuck America wasnt the only country in the wars you know.

Rememberance Day is our day...fuck learn some of our history, we know fucking enough of yours.

I already ahve a Canadian Flag up all year like every canadian should and will be going to school.

oh yeah, well the vets in my family dont care about that day

it burns , burns , burns, this burning ring of fire.

Ca...na...da? Whats this Canada that Pyro is talking about here?

Have the same amount of respect I did a year ago, when I first joined....And that's quite a lot...

I respect vets who are cool

Well I don't really have any place to put it. I used to have it on my wall, but I can't put it there any more. So I just take it out on special occasions. Widh I had a flag poll to put it on.

ah cool...we have like a poll off the side of our house with it on

My Grandma has an actual flag pole out of the gorund on her lawn.

i have a 50 foot flag pole in the center of my yard with the flags of over 100 nations . GREAT!

i have a meeechigan flag

I own the UN. biggrin:

http://www.colba.net/~brock/2000b/11-11.htm

November 11 is Remembrance Day in Canada; Veteran's Day in the US; and is similarly commemorated in other countries because November 11 was the day that World War I ended in 1918.

I wrote a Remembrance Day entry last year but since I consider this day a bit more important than Halloween, I think it deserves annual mention and I consider this a continuation of last year's entry.

As far back as I can remember, people have worn poppy pins for the two or three weeks preceding Remembrance Day as a symbol honouring fallen soldiers. This isn't strictly a Canadian thing but it's observed pretty faithfully here. Poppies are sold (actually, exchanged for donations) in public places (malls, subway stations) by uniformed volunteers of the Royal Canadian Legion, a nationwide veterans' and community service organization.

Politicians wear them; newscasters wear them on the air; my father wears his proudly and so do I. They're simple pins, made of red and green felt-like material, with a plain bent pin through the middle.



Why a poppy? Those flowers grew wild in the battlefields of Belgium and France and quickly overgrew the soldiers' graves. Although it had been noted before, the effect was best memorialized in the poem, In Flanders Fields (see below), written by John McCrae, a Canadian Medical Officer in World War I.

A brief account of the story of the poppy and the significance of the associated fund raising effort can be found on the Legion website.

The CBC put together an informative site too, including reporters' sound clips recorded during World War II, and a section on symbols of remembrance, including of course the poppy.




In Flanders Fields
by John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amidst the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

I like his last name

Doesn't yours have a space in it?

ya but they sound the same

Whatever.

in the poppie field the larks blow in the direction the gun blaze throught the nmight we stand in flag with cron wtill bright

what the fuck was that?

a poem of love, lonelyness, and bravery

it touched me, ecspecially all the broken english in it.

germ ...you are one messed up individual

yeah i know. life as a freak can be hard soemtimes.

also are u posting from dallas now?

his location says still in uk...

based on his location i'm going to guess....no

ah so he's still in texas. hehe silly goose

Yes, the UK is in Texas.

texas , iamai, and cagalry are all in texas, and texas is in uk

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I believe heroin comes from poppie seeds. rember wisard of oz when they get high and pass out.

I can't believe someone had to ask what the significance of Nov. 11th was.

For your information, on November 11, 1918, Germany signed the armistice which ended the First World War. Every Nov 11 since has been a day of remembrance for all the brave men and women who sacrificed all they had for our freedom.

So show some goddamned respect.


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gotta love the U.S. education system oOo:

Skrew being a board "Vet"! I'm a REAL "Vet"...Respect MY AUTHORITAE! lol cool:

How about STFU bleed! and i think im gonna buy ninty9 a beer just cause he's the only name i remember right now.

Uhh, how 'bout NO Innoxx !!! mad:

BTW I voted "A Soldier with Experience!" Like I needed to explain that!