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Title: In Keeping With Veterans/Armistice Day Tomorrow Post by: ER on November 10, 2008, 12:34:43 PM http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7696021.stm
An article about those who were the last to make the supreme sacrifice on the final day of the Great War. in pace requiescat Title: Re: In Keeping With Veterans/Armistice Day Tomorrow Post by: raj on November 10, 2008, 04:28:45 PM Very sad. No good reason to have been fighting on that day. My great uncle was killed Oct. 3, 1918, and I always thought that that was a shame, couldn't have made 5 more weeks. And this was after having lost part of a lung a couple years prior in a gas attack. Really he should have been out of action.
So thank you to all the veterans. :cheers: Title: Re: In Keeping With Veterans/Armistice Day Tomorrow Post by: indianasmith on November 10, 2008, 06:36:44 PM Can you believe there is still one living U.S. veteran from World War One? His name is Fred Buckles, and he is 107 years old!!!!
In the 1990's I got to interview 8 surviving veterans of the Great War. It was one of the coolest things I have ever done. One of them had been in Pershing's army down on the border in 1917, chasing Pancho Villa! Title: Re: In Keeping With Veterans/Armistice Day Tomorrow Post by: ER on November 11, 2008, 12:39:15 PM What sorts of things did the veterans tell you, indy?
Title: Re: In Keeping With Veterans/Armistice Day Tomorrow Post by: indianasmith on November 11, 2008, 11:30:29 PM Too many great stories for me to type up this late at night . . .
three of them had fathers who served in the Civil War . . . one had a father who was born a slave. I'll post more another time. Those interviews were one of the high points of my life as a historian. Title: Re: In Keeping With Veterans/Armistice Day Tomorrow Post by: Trevor on November 12, 2008, 04:22:41 AM 11 November is also another remembrance day for me personally ~ this is the day in 1965 that the then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) declared independence from Britain and plunged itself into a terrifying 15 year civil war.
It's sad when you go back in African history and see that a lot of nations have been fighting over that piece of land since before recorded history and the beautiful country of my birth has never known peace at all, ever. :bluesad: They are still fighting over it ~ what is left to fight over? :question: :bluesad: |