Canadian Rememberance Day

[mousey1]

Please Remember

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Terry Clark - A Pittance of Time

[stilltrucking]

They were slaughtered by the hundred thousands for no reason. Just a G*d damn imperialist war.
Nobody's homeland was being attacked except the wretched people in their colonies.

sorry mousey
I watch those old news reels from world war one and tears still roll down my cheeks.

[stilltrucking]

At least Canada still calls it what it is

down here we got a one size fits all generic veterans day'

sorry mousey that song makes me want to cry because it is such a crock.

[mousey1]

Ah yes, stilltrucking...but it's about the soldiers...not the wars.

Wars are shameful, the soldiers are not.

[stilltrucking]

I like it as an instumental, but the words are patriotic pudd.

thanks for posting
sincerely
nothing to do with you

[stilltrucking]

sorry I did not see your post

Ah yes, stilltrucking...but it's about the soldiers...not the wars.

You smarter than me sister
how do you have one without the other.

I don't like those lyrics and if I had a kid in school I would be pissed that they had to listen to them

The veterans deserve the truth.

god dam god dam
do know anything about world war one?
oh mousey do you know what millions of people died for. There were not two world wars, just one with a twenty year intermission

I let it go
I am not a veteran
I should let them comment on it

Here is one comment

Kurt Vonnegut, from the foreward of Breakfast of Champions, Or Goodbye Blue Monday! (1973)

I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things.
What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.
And all music is.

http://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=11333

At least Canada got more integrity than we do. They have not made a generic holliday out of it.

[mousey1]

Speak your mind, still, I don't mind.

I just know that it was a horrible time (and horrible, I'm sure, is understating it) and remembering it, however you remember it, is not a bad thing. Forgetting it, that would be a bad thing.

I cannot fathom the horror, stillt. When I do think of it, and especially this once a year, I do so out of respect for those innocent men and women drawn into it to do what they felt impelled to do, out of conscience or whatever.

They deserve the respect of, at the very least, a two minute silence of rememberance, and that means silence of thought...in the great expanse of time that is not much to ask.

[mousey1]

Woot Woot, good old Vonnegut, says it much better than I ever could.

[stilltrucking]

oh mousey I was not trying to shoot the messenger
thanks for understanding
but I felt like John Belushi in Animal House
I wanted to take his guitar and smash it over his head. But I thought the music was ok. And Kurt always said listen to the music
You notice Kurt V did not talk about noble sacrifices.

Two minutes of silence is good. I wish we did the same here.

a sucky song, Toby Kieth could not have done any worse. "our homeland attacked, those who fought to make this land ours" I would have liked to hear lyrics like these
lord have mercy on the souls of those that got drafted and shot and gased and blown apart to make the world safe for J P Morgan and company.

I had visions of Lloyd George Clemenceau, sitting in the Hall of Mirrors carving up the world and raping Germany. Where ever you look around the globe you will see the evil that those men spawned. Carving up the world because to the victor goes the spoils.

If you are right and there is a hell, and I wind up there, I won't mind it so much if I see that woodrow wilson is there too. THe goody two shoes preacher's son with his noble fourteen points, his vanity as a peace maker and those bloody europeans playing him for the high minded fool he was.

God bless the veterans
one out of every four the homeless people in america is a veteran.

I am the scare crow.
I am going to get a brain any day now.