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Lest we forget.
SSS | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 12:57 a.m. | #
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Thank you
Gladys | 11.11.08 - 1:32 a.m. | #
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great one. we have it easy don't we
rowan | 11.11.08 - 1:45 a.m. | #
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Well written. Maybe it'll make someone think twice before dismissing November 11th.
Erin | 11.11.08 - 2:31 a.m. | #
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Very good DG.
Marc | 11.11.08 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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You've surpassed yourself there dg, very good.
NiC | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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Very well put
Steve | 11.11.08 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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Brilliant.
Gordon | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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I'm sat here with tears in my eyes. What a great post. I'll thank you for this one on behalf of my Grandfather who was at The Somme, lived, but could never bring himself to tell the tale.
Perhaps I won't complain about how bad the traffic is this morning.
Kennamatic | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 9:30 a.m. | #
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Well said.
Andrew | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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That was as perfect a post as you can get on Armistice Day.
I will be copying and acknowledging it on my not very often posted on, or read, one!
Also, while remembering 'our boys' spare a thought for the 'rank & file' on the other side. Not everyone were Nazis, but died & were maimed because that's what they had to do, or face terrible consequences...
The Fatalist | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 10:06 a.m. | #
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Wonderful.
Bit dusty in this office, I've got some of it in my eye.
rosamundi | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 10:18 a.m. | #
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Thank you. I can't think of anything more original to say than to echo 'very well said'.
Rose | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 11:07 a.m. | #
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Both of my great-uncles were killed in the First World War. This post helped me remember their sacrifice.
mike | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 11:15 a.m. | #
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Very good one DG. Thank you.
Vogel von Neustadt | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 11:19 a.m. | #
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And the world still hasn't learnt the lessons. Very sad.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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DG, thanks, excellent posting
stonemuse | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 12:06 p.m. | #
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WOW!! Brilliantly illustrated.
Mo | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 12:08 p.m. | #
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I wish we would all learn!
Humbling.
Amused | 11.11.08 - 12:18 p.m. | #
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Spot on. As always.
Jon Allen | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 1:11 p.m. | #
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superb, thankyou
David Keen | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 1:17 p.m. | #
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Beautiful.
The Girl | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 1:31 p.m. | #
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Wonderful reminder. Should be printed on the front page of newspapers today.
aag | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 1:40 p.m. | #
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Masterful. So good, I've linked to it on my facebook page (hmm... I don't mean that to be ironic; could I get away with post-ironic?)
Wayne | 11.11.08 - 1:41 p.m. | #
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Fantastic post. Remembrance Day was completely ignored by my university department, which was a bit sad.
Laura | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 2:55 p.m. | #
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Very poignant.
At the going down of the sun we shall remember them.
Kerensa | 11.11.08 - 3:09 p.m. | #
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Thank you for that. What an amazing truth.
Ang | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 4:44 p.m. | #
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Yes, well, cough,I read the left hand column first and agreed with every word. Then I read the RHS and felt ashamed of myself (blush). Thank you for that jolt of reality.
My thoughts are with those in the Congo right now.
007.5 | 11.11.08 - 5:14 p.m. | #
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cleverly done, DG
the side by side format reminded me of the silence I experienced on Sunday:
I was at Enfield Playing Fields. All the rugby games that were in progress ceased when the club secretary blew a blast on his whistle, and probably 200 players and spectators stood in silence and shivered...
..while on the next pitches the football games continued noisily, and heedless.
symbolic eh?
botogol | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 5:43 p.m. | #
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Really loved this.
Matt | 11.11.08 - 6:22 p.m. | #
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thank you.
peter | 11.11.08 - 6:27 p.m. | #
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Outstanding post, thank you
Caroline | 11.11.08 - 8:20 p.m. | #
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Beautifully written and thought provoking.
I am someone who never met one of his grandfathers as he was in the Royal Flying Corps. He didn't survive long after the war was over because of how he had suffered while serving in France.
pop artist | 11.11.08 - 8:44 p.m. | #
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Dolce et decorum est pro patria mori
Johnny Topaz | 11.11.08 - 10:23 p.m. | #
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Thanks DG.
fatboyfat | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 10:42 p.m. | #
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Thank you, DG.
Josh | 12.11.08 - 12:10 a.m. | #
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Brilliant post - thanks
Jo | Homepage | 12.11.08 - 5:54 a.m. | #
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Maybe your best ever d.g.
Colin in Thailand | 12.11.08 - 6:04 a.m. | #
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It just goes to show how trivial some of our problems really are in perspective, doesn't it?
May we never forget our countrymen who fight and have fought for us over the years.
Andrewh | 12.11.08 - 11:33 a.m. | #
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No-one wins in a war...
Gandhi | 12.11.08 - 3:04 p.m. | #
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To the Enfield bloke-
stick the boot onto football why don't you?
Did you notice if any of those football mathces held a silence before kick off?
I certainly know the Dulwich Hamlet Junior Football Club match did.
And also on Tuesday 11th, at 7.45pm, prior to kick off at Dulwich Hamlet versus Chipstead, in the Ryman League Division One South.
No doubt you think John Inverdale is a 'diamond geezer' You pillock!
The Fatalist | Homepage | 12.11.08 - 7:47 p.m. | #
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Excellent, DG.
Josh | 12.11.08 - 8:25 p.m. | #
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I work in a large well-known office in Reigate, and there was an announcement on the P.A. at 5 to 11 to warn us of the silence to come. It was amazing, 150 people just standing or sitting, all quiet, no phones, no sound. We do care. The BBC have shown some footage about the trenches, and it looked dreadful, I don't think the youth of today could cope.
Surrey Girl | 12.11.08 - 9:31 p.m. | #
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Well done. Simple, and that's why it works. Jolly good show.
Sarsparilla | Homepage | 12.11.08 - 10:42 p.m. | #
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Excellent DG.
ChicagoAddick | Homepage | 15.11.08 - 1:13 p.m. | #
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That was brilliant. Thank you on behalf of my father and grandfather. And thank you from me. You're a star xxx.
The Garden Brownie | 15.11.08 - 5:19 p.m. | #
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