Not a mention sadly. Will "Veteran's Day" suffer the same oversight?
"Remembrance Day"
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Well it’s been replaced by new fangled pink and purple glitter fests to honor the cultic a.i. gestational processes - I pledge allegiance to the botnet
Last week in the UK, a 100 year old WWII veteran was on breakfast TV. Said that, in retrospect, the sacrifice hadn't been worth it; they fought for freedom and now we have less than ever.
I saw a few people wearing poppies, much to my surprise.
I suspect few people knew what they meant.
I suspect few people knew what they meant.
Veterans Day is about the ones who lived. Memorial Day is for the ones who didn't. As a combat vet. I am happy with the schools here doing programs and getting free dinners from decent restaurants.
It won't be forgotten any time soon down here. It was celebrated quite well back in the people's republic of WA when I lived there, too.
It won't be forgotten any time soon down here. It was celebrated quite well back in the people's republic of WA when I lived there, too.
I'm a veteran and am aware of the poppies, but I honestly thought (still think?) that they were associated with Britain / Canadian forces. I have never seen anyone here in the states wearing a poppy.
I am not as familiar with Rememberance Day. Is that the same as Memorial Day in the US? Or is it like Veterans and Memorial Days together?
I don't fully know the politics but, the US chose to rename the day for Vets and pick another to be memorial day. When I was a youth the US did the "poppy" thing in November the same the Brits and Commonwealth countries. 'spose I could research but, I fine with Veterans' Day in November and a Memorial Day in June. I hate seeing either as just another "holiday"/day off from work.
Completely agree. I cannot help but wonder if it wasn't worse than large amounts of the youth in a tizzy over Vietnam to have the utter indifference vast amounts of the youth to the 20+ year war on terror.
In Flanders Fields
By John McCraeIn 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.
The WWI Origins of the Poppy as a Remembrance Symbol
The symbolism started with a poem written by a brigade surgeon.
"I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy... all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another.
I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute.
They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veteran's Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things"
— Kurt Vonnegut from Breakfast of Champions
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another.
I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute.
They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veteran's Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things"
— Kurt Vonnegut from Breakfast of Champions