We Will Remember Them

[Downunder Kilt]

"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."

LEST WE FORGET

[Grizzly]

Amen Mike. Special thoughts are with my late parents both of whom served in the RAF during the Second World War. Forever in my memory. God bless them both.

[planemaker]

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 McCrea
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps

Edit: from touch to torch. Damn auto correct

[Peter Crowe]

'The Kohima Epitaph'

"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"

John Maxwell Edmonds (1875 -1958)

[aonghas]

Forever grate full , I have my life today by what others have paid dearly for.

Lest we forget
Lest we forget

[Hawk]

I stand with my fellow Veterans in honor and remembrance......

Hawk 1*

[tripleblessed]

At 11AM on 11/11/2004, I placed my father's ashes near his parents' graves. He sailed virtually unarmed into the teeth
of the U-boats, and wallowed in overloaded oilers and troopships through the wide South Pacific to return home to no benefits or recognition. His father served with Black Jack Pershing in the Philippines, in pursuit of Pancho Villa, and in France.
His great-grandfather died at James Island. And back through the generations.

In gratitude to all who have and will serve, my gratitude. To all who didn't come home, my debt is eternal, as will be your
honor, and my recall of same.

[BCAC]

All gave some, some gave all.

Remember why it should never happen again.

[Sturdy]

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

- John Gillespie Magee Jr.

[Sturdy]

My thanks to all veterans who have served, not just in the U.S. from a veteran, the son of a veteran (Sea Bee - Iwo Jima WWII, and the grandson of a veteran (Belleau Wood - WWI)