| FlirtWithMe |
11-11-2008 02:35 AM |
Nice one, Scarecrow. I've been thinking about this a lot the past few days. It's the first Remembrance Day my grandmother will miss and I'm adding her to my list of thoughts when I observe the two minutes silence at 11am. She was four years old at the beginning of the Great War, the same age my daughter is now.
I found this when I was browsing online last night:
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On 11 November 1918 the Armistice was signed between the Allied and German armies, ending the First World War – a global war that lasted four years with the total human cost to Britain and the Empire of 3,049,972 casualties, including 658,705 dead.
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Too many deaths to even begin to comprehend :(
Britain's oldest man, and one of the very few survivors of people who fought in the Great War, Henry Allingham (aged 112), has said:
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"These hellish memories of war are ones I'd rather forget. But never my comrades. Never the men who gave their everything." During a visit to a war cemetery in France, he was quoted as saying, "All of us must remember them, always."
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To all those who fought and died for their countries around the world, you will be remembered today with the greatest of respect. |
