Lest we forget

[RED-DOG]

RIP boys.

We thank you.

[Colchester Kev]

    They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

    At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
    We will remember them.

[Robert HM]

“When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today.”

[turny]

Aftermath
 
Siegfried Sassoon (1919)
 

Have you forgotten yet?...
For the world’s events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways:
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you’re a man reprieved to go,
Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.

But the past is just the same-and War’s a bloody game...
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you’ll never forget.

Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz-
The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?
Do you remember the rats; and the stench
Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench-
And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?
Do you ever stop and ask, ‘Is it all going to happen again?’

Do you remember that hour of din before the attack-
And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then
As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
With dying eyes and lolling heads-those ashen-grey
Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?

Have you forgotten yet?...
Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you’ll never forget.
 

[thetank]

Cheers lads.

[Tonji]

The Last Post.

[technolog]

Thanks for everything.

[kinboshi]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties


It's frightening.

[sofa----king]

"TO THINK NOW,OF THE WORRY THEY HAD THEN"
   "LIVES WERE GIVEN AND LIVES WERE TAKEN"
      I CAN ONLY IMAGINE AS I HEAR THE SEA
OF WHAT IT MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE FOR YOUNG MEN
KNOWING THEY WOULD NEVER SEE THIER FAMILIES AGAIN..
         NEVER FORGOTEN REAL HEROES OF WAR
                           R.I.P

[AndrewT]

[  ] gg illiterate BBC captionmonkey

[Kev B]

Forever in their debt.

RIP

[bolt pp]

[  ] gg illiterate BBC captionmonkey

what happend here? my spellings so bad, what did they misspell, "day" or "live"?

[bolt pp]

clocked it now, they said WWI when they meant WWII, idiots

[mondatoo]

 

Forever in their debt.

RIP

Plus this Good Post

[bobAlike]

[  ] gg illiterate BBC captionmonkey

what happend here? my spellings so bad, what did they misspell, "day" or "live"?

No spelling mistakes, but it should say 'wreaths'.

'Never forgotten'