|
11/11
Nov 14, 2005 3:27:47 GMT -5
Post by AndyVale on Nov 14, 2005 3:27:47 GMT -5
Seeing as it was rememberance sunday yesterday i thought i would make a quick post to say thank you! The generations of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 were an astounding body of men and women. Our freedoms (and possibly existance?) that we know today are indebted to them. It is sickening that so many are completely without care or knowledge, yet will go about enjoying as much of these liberties as they can. The sacrifices made by their generation are incomparable to our own where giving up TV for a week is seen as an acheivement or a month at Brat Camp seems gruelling. A few years ago i went on a school trip to Ypres for the day, they still have part of a trench dug out there. It was weird seeing people jumping in and out of a mud crater made by a shell, it was like it never happened to some of them. Then we saw the graves, it was a sea of white. Its difficult to comprehend that each one of those was a husband, father, son, brother or friend who had died in the nearby fields. All within a few years of each other.
At the end of the day life still goes on, no-one involved would want everyone to spend every day dwelling on it all (thats another sacrifice many of them made). All they ask is that we say thank you once every year. If thats too much for some people then to hell with them!
'Sixteen years old when i went to the war, To fight for a land fit for heroes'
Motorhead - 1916
|
|
|
11/11
Dec 21, 2005 19:03:43 GMT -5
Post by Liam on Dec 21, 2005 19:03:43 GMT -5
YOU MAKE ME WEEP!!!!
thanks
|
|