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Jack M

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It's Remembrance Day here in Canada.

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.

- John McCrae

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from his new, 'restrictive' abode, "so that he could be with his Dad on Veterans' Day."

It was denied (nice try, though,) so I nuked him some macaroni, got him a shake, and drove north, where he beat me in a fast game of 'Sorry!'

I think he's finally "getting it", and I couldn't have had a better gift. Long, long way, from the heaving deck of a wooden minesweeper off the Mekong Delta. Glad both he, and I, are here and not there.

Here's thanks to the men and women who're still in harm's way!

BB

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Yeah....on behalf of veterans everywhere, I would think a true remembrance would be to not cut their earned medical care, college grant program or housing purchase program, so, since I know a certain political persuasion support all of the above, I'm going to say "Don't bother"

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Once I gained my composure after viewing this video, my wife gained her composure after seeing it, and then my boy lost his composure....

Thanks, Jack!

Mark

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Once I gained my composure after viewing this video, my wife gained her composure after seeing it, and then my boy lost his composure....

Thanks, Jack!

Mark

Yeah. Looks like about 6-12 months worth of "being strong" getting let go at once. That clip is being used in the current Roger Waters "The Wall" tour, as part of its anti-war theme. They project it on the wall during Comfortably Numb. It was a very powerful moment in the concert.

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