Remembrance Day or Poppy Day,or Armistice Day or Veterans Day as it may be called in various parts of the world. Let's all remember the sacrifices of our soldiers who have fallen to protect our freedom.

I n honour of our fallen troops:

In Flanders Fields

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 amid 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.
— Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 - 1918)

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Hi Twelvebar: that poem is why the poppy is the emblem of remembrance in my country. Yours too, I don't know?

Where I am we just marked the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month a few minutes ago.

- C

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Lest we forget.

Just got back from the missus's grandads. He was at dunkirk. He got shot in the shoulder when they landed and still charged the beach despite being wounded. What a bloke eh? Got shot but still remained determined to get the job done. He lied about his age to join up too. They were a different breed that lot.

He even showed me the bullet, he keeps it in a glass jar.

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We Stood For Freedom

We stood for freedom just like you
And loved the flag you cherish too
Our uniforms felt great to wear
You know the feel, and how you care.

In step we marched, the cadence way
The same is true with you today
Oh how we tried to do our best
As you do now, from test to test
How young we were and proud to be
Defenders of true liberty.

So many thoughts bind soldiers well
The facts may change, not how we jell
Each soldier past, and you now here
Do share what will not disappear
One thought now comes, straight from my heart
For soldiers home, who've done their part.

I'm honored to have served with you
May Godly peace, help get you through
And now I'll end with a request
Do ponder this, while home at rest
America, respect our day
Each veteran, helped freedom stay.

-Roger J. Robicheau
Former U.S. Army Specialist Fifth Class

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Thanks for posting this thread Twelvebar. I haven't been to Arlington National Cemetery since I was a little guy, but I remember my Grandfather is buried there and that 21 gun salute scared the b'jesus out of me.

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Hi Ceri! The US does not use the poppy as a symbol of the day. In fact, I had never heard of the tradition until I lived in the UK (where I wore my poppy with pride on Remembrance Day). Nor do we really pay attention to the 11:11 connection. That's a little odd, since it started as Armistice Day, and the 11s were integral to that.

Nowadays, the holiday in the US is called Veterans Day (no apostrophes in the spelling). Flags are displayed at half staff until noon, and then they are raised to their full height.

This Veterans Day is bittersweet here in Texas in the light of last week's shootings at Fort Hood. It's bad enough for our troops to die in combat, but to die at the hands of another military member is horrible beyond belief.

All the best to those who have served and continue to serve from this retired US Air Force Master Sergeant.

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As a two war vet and current Army officer, Thank you for recognizing the sacrifices that my Soldiers and those before me have made. It is your sentiments that make this job so much easier!!
Eric

Hi Ceri! The US does not use the poppy as a symbol of the day.

You will find members of the Veterans of Foreign War handing you a 'poppy' as a token of thanks for your contribution to their fund raisers.

Doc

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To all members of the Forum, they and their forebears, who have served the cause of peace and freedom on this planet, my deepest thanks and appreciation.

Doc.

thanks to all the veterans that have and are currently fighting the forces of tyranny and oppression in the world. thank you for the freedoms and liberties that i enjoy daily.

yeah Ceri, it is the reason we all wear poppies. i donate to the Canadian Legion every year. The poem was written by a Canadian, after witnessing the death if a friend. In fact a portion of the peom is quoted on the Canadian ten dollar bill.

To someone else, I am sure I saw vets with poppies when I was in DC years ago, am I mistaken?

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
-Ronald Reagan

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Hi gents: thanks for the info.

Though I was really asking Twelvebar - because I'm ashamed to admit I didn't know whether other Commonwealth Countries such as his have the poppy symbol or whether it's just in the UK. (Thank you for educating me, 12B.)

Commonwealth Countries share some particular traditions - I didn't know if this was one of them.

In Britain on Armistice Day we remember the fallen from all countries in all wars. That poppy stands for everybody: nobody is excluded.

Cheers - C

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We should never forget those who have laid there lives on the line for the freedom of others.

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