1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month).

1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

2006 - The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.

2006 - The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.

That was all over the news here in NZ when it was built and unveiled. Lest we Forget.

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- Luke.

1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month).

1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

2006 - The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.

That is why we have a holiday here -Veterans Day - Let us Never Forget!

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What you do today you will have to live with tonight

1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month).

1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

2006 - The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.

That is why we have a holiday here -Veterans Day - Let us Never Forget!

Let us we never forget the debt we owe.

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What Veterans Day means to me. My strongest feeling is guilt, followed by remorse. Then comes the pain of grief and the anger of being betrayed. Yes, I am a Veteran. A decorated Combat Veteran who fought enemies this country did not need to have. Who lost friends because of incompetent leadership. Who destroyed a nation and a people because our politicians and our public believe they can use us to have what they want. When it would be cheaper and easier to live in peace.

I could tell you stories, but why bother. We are forgotten.

Americans are gluttons for power. This is the defining act of your national character. You do what gives you power.

You sacrifice us on the Almighty Altar of the Economy. You bury us. You lower the flag twice a year. You forget us. And you look for ways to use the next generation so you can have what you want.

And still I want to fight. To take back my country from those who believe we are supposed to die so they can have what they want. Because I do not want the dream to be forgotten.

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You aren't forgotten. Some of us know damn well that the USA should never engage in a police action. This country should only wage all out take no prisoners accept nothing but unconditional surrender war. If we ever do less than this our country gets torn apart and the lives of good honorable men are wasted for nothing, because as soon as we leave we loose. The rest of the world isn't good enough to live by the principals of our constitution and declaration of independence. We shouldn't bother trying to force it on them. It doesn't work.

My brother was was wasted by this country because some damn politician wanted to draw a political line in the sand for his own political ambitions. The politician understood nothing of what he was doing or the situation and accomplished nothing of value doing it. No my brother wasn't killed, but his sprit was which is worse.

No, darthvader, you aren't forgotten and neither is your sacrifice. Saying thanks isn't enough, but there isn't much else I can do. Thanks.

I just can't believe this country let a President send in the military just because he wanted to settle a personal score because "they tried to kill my daddy." [spit] No question he will go down as the worst President in history. Even Nixon will rate higher.

To vets the world over & to all those currently serving, my thanks.

I pray for the day that ALL polititians learn that our armed forces MUST only be used in the event of war & not as police officers.

Any nation that uses it's armed forces as police loses it's respect for itself & it's people.

It's been 90 years since the end of the most horrific bloodletting the world has known to that time & I dread the state of the world when the same can be said of WWII.





...................LEST WE FORGET.........................

...And in the morning...
....We Shall Remember Them.

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Looking around other project forums, I saw this over in Einstein and thought it might be of interest -

One of the unusual aspects with the turn to remembering the Armistice yesterday, was an unusual articles on local radio here.

Apparently, across the UK there are 30 Thankful Villages. A Thankful Village is one where there is no remembrance Cenotaph to be found.

These were villages whose young men voluntarily enlisted, like the res of the country, for service during the Great War (WWI). Although many men were wounded, all the veterans survived their war and returned (hence no Cenotaph).

One our Thankful Villages also sent men to fight in WWII and all returned alive, as well.

I remember all the wounded men I seen while I was a medic in the USAF that came my way. Quite a few of them they were. I think of them on Veterans Day.

I remember one day in November my Mom and Dad came to visit me at Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio and I took them to the Air Force Museum and when we got to the section on the South Pacific during WW2 he discussed his time in the USN during WW2 in the South Pacific he was in the 57th Seabee’s at Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides group and later in the Admiralties on
Manus Island and later on to Okinawa He said that the Jap would bomb for 6 months and if a guy did not keep his head down he would get it shot off. The natives would get a pack of cigarettes for every Jap head they brought in the natives would carry the heads on a grass g string they wore. My cousin who budded around with my Dad before he shipped out said Dad would send home bullets he dug out of dead Jap. If a man were disliked he would not return from patrols. He lost all of his gear at sea when his ship went down and he was glad he was on a small ship because the suicide bombers would fly over his ship in search of bigger targets. He dropped a pair of binoculars at sea and lost a stripe.

You can read the whole story here SOPAC SAGA 57th SEABEES

http://pdharris.com/harris/sopac_saga_57th_seabees.htm