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A tribute to our soldiers, both past and present, who have fought for freedom and died in duty, and in hopes that our children may at last cast down our swords and take up the plowshare once more.

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Thank you, thank you for answering your nation's call, thank you for giving years of your life and sometimes your lives themselves, thank you for the years of hardship, war, and bloodshed that you endured in defence of this country. Thank for our freedom, thank you for everything you have done.

- Pte Keyes, Canadian Armed Forces

God save the Queen!

First Post: Seconded.

You may not agree with why they died, but you have to respect someone who will lay down their life to protect you and your family.

To all the veterans out there who have put/lost their lives on the line to safeguard my freedoms --

Thank you.

First Post: Seconded.

You may not agree with why they died, but you have to respect someone who will lay down their life to protect you and your family.
The only two Commonwealth wars I question are the Boer War and WWI.

But since this is the one day I year I get pariotic, lest we forget!

you have to respect someone who will lay down their life to protect you and your family.You mean to say we respect all veterans?

You mean to say we respect all veterans?

I sense a trap here...

If I answer yes, then you (or someone else) will say "but waht abot t3h Nazzi murdereres1!!11!1?!!?!!?1!?!/1!?!!?1!"

If I answer no, then I would have to "list" those that can or cannot be respected, and that is nearly impossible to do. I mean, I don't think anyone joined the German Army just to kill Jews; they almost always did it to protect the fatherland.

I mean, I don't think anyone joined the German Army just to kill Jews; they almost always did it to protect the fatherland.

My grandfather was forced to... They said they'd shoot his siblings if he refuses to join the Army.

@topic:
Well, everybody in here is thanking Veterans. Veterans are worshipped. They have a Veteran's Day or whatever it is called elsewhere.

What about those who refused to kill fellow human beings, just because some politicians told them to? What about those who upheld principles like freedom, tolerance,... by living small little, "unimportant" lives? What about those who stayed at home during a war, who worked hard to provide food, who rebuilt whatever those oh-so-wonderful-veterans bombed/shot/burned down?
I think that they deserve a hundred times more respect than veterans - it's sometimes more difficult to live for a country than to die for it.

What about those who refused to kill fellow human beings, just because some politicians told them to? There is a place for concientious objectors - in WWII they served admirably in the US military earning many medals for valor under fire rescuing thier comrades under the very hail of bullets that dropped them. There has always been a place for them , in the unarmed portions of the service.
What about those who upheld principles like freedom, tolerance You joke, right? Did you think those who volunteer to fight for freedom, don't uphold freedom? Please. Tolerance is not a word found in our Constitution, but one we practice a lot, regardless of what many say.
... who rebuilt whatever those oh-so-wonderful-veterans bombed/shot/burned down?
The enemy burns down your huts, not your own guys. Simply because Germany was on the losing side, oh, twice, doesn't mean the guys who thought they were fighting for the right cause, were the ones who caused it.
I think that they deserve a hundred times more respect than veterans - it's sometimes more difficult to live for a country than to die for it.
Without those selfsame veterans, they would have no country to live for, die for, but only be buried in.
Please understand, I had to modify this post after re-reading that you are in Germany, and have an instilled disdain for things military due to your country's history. Well, a shot fired in Austria Hungary started the first half of the War of the 20th Century, and a little rabble rousing Jew hater from Austria started the second half. Now that Germany is reuinited, some even still look nervously her direction...we'll see. But I will say, I respect all veterans of freedom, whether serving in the British military, the Czech Republic, Austrailia, US, or even the post WWII Bundeshwer, who helped plug the tide of communism.

To all the veterans out there who have put/lost their lives on the line to safeguard my freedoms --

Thank you.
You're very welcome. I consider it time and hazard well spent. :)

Soldiers died so that we may have the freedoms we enjoy today. All they ask in return is that they be remembered.

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.

What about those who refused to kill fellow human beings, just because some politicians told them to? What about those who upheld principles like freedom, tolerance,... by living small little, "unimportant" lives? What about those who stayed at home during a war, who worked hard to provide food, who rebuilt whatever those oh-so-wonderful-veterans bombed/shot/burned down?
I think that they deserve a hundred times more respect than veterans - it's sometimes more difficult to live for a country than to die for it.
Why do you think we're so willing to defend them? :p

"Our fathers were soldiers so we could be businessmen, so our children could be artists and writers."

What about those who refused to kill fellow human beings, just because some politicians told them to? What about those who upheld principles like freedom, tolerance,... by living small little, "unimportant" lives?

In peace there ’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.

A tribute to our soldiers, both past and present, who have fought for freedom and died in duty, and in hopes that our children may at last cast down our swords and take up the plowshare once more.

http://www.stanwoodarts.com/images/Red%20Poppy.jpg

Thank you, thank you for answering your nation's call, thank you for giving years of your life and sometimes your lives themselves, thank you for the years of hardship, war, and bloodshed that you endured in defence of this country. Thank for our freedom, thank you for everything you have done.

- Pte Keyes, Canadian Armed Forces

yeah i mean we all know how free eastern europe was

"There is nothing so peaceful as a dead man - he just lays there, and complains not at all!"