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  • Armistice Day on the 11th November

    Lest People Forget. I would like to post the poem 'In Flanders Fields' by John MacRae.

    In Flanders fields the poppies blow
    between the crosses, row on row
    that mark our place. And in the sky
    the larks, still bravely singing, fly
    scarce heard amid the guns below.

    We are the dead. Short days ago
    we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow.
    Loved and were loved, and now we lie
    in Flanders fields.

    Take up our quarrel with the foe:
    to you from failing hands we throw
    the torch. Be yours to hold it high.
    If ye break faith with us who die
    we shall not sleep, though poppies grow
    in Flanders fields.
    Semper in excretum. Solum profunda variat.

  • #2
    On 11 November, the following happened:

    * 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul
    * 1215 - The Fourth Lateran Council meets, adopting the doctrine of transubstantiation, meaning that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.
    * 1500 - Treaty of Granada - Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
    * 1620 - In what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the Mayflower, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony.
    * 1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery" (anal sex).
    * 1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.
    * 1675 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs.
    * 1831 - In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
    * 1833 - Former United States President John Quincy Adams is first chief executive involved in a railroad accident when the Camden & Amboy train he is riding derails due to a broken axle caused by an overheated journal box in the meadows near Hightstown, New Jersey. He is uninjured and continues his trip onto Washington, D.C. the following day.
    * 1834 - Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling was first published.
    * 1839 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
    * 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
    * 1865 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
    * 1880 - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
    * 1887 - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
    * 1887 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
    * 1889 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
    * 1911 - Many cities in the U.S. midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
    * 1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00.
    * 1918 - Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence.
    * 1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates.
    * 1919 - The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the IWW.
    * 1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
    * 1926 - U.S. Route 66 is established.
    * 1930 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
    * 1933 - Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands.
    * 1940 - World War II: Battle of Taranto - The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
    * 1940 - The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
    * 1940 - Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.
    * 1962 - Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
    * 1965 - Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) was declared independent by the white minority regime of Ian Smith.
    * 1966 - NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
    * 1967 - Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
    * 1968 - Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal was to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
    * 1968 - A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
    * 1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
    * 1975 - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister, and announces a general election to be held in early December.
    * 1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
    * 1999 - A six-storey apartment block collapses in Foggia, Italy, killing 62.
    * 2000 - In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
    * 2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington
    * 2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

    Births

    * 1050 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
    * 1154 - King Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
    * 1155 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
    * 1220 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (d. 1271)
    * 1493 - Paracelsus, doctor (d. 1541)
    * 1493 - Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)
    * 1599 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (d. 1656)
    * 1633 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, British statesman (d. 1695)
    * 1668 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)
    * 1743 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
    * 1744 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
    * 1748 - King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
    * 1764 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer (d. 1824)
    * 1791 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
    * 1792 - Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
    * 1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)
    * 1828 - Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, Hindu saint (d. 1963)
    * 1836 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (d. 1907)
    * 1852 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
    * 1858 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
    * 1863 - Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
    * 1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1921)
    * 1869 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1947)
    * 1882 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
    * 1883 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (d. 1969)
    * 1885 - George Smith Patton, Jr., American general (d. 1945)
    * 1887 - Roland Young, American actor (d. 1953)
    * 1891 - Rabbit Maranville, baseball player (d. 1954)
    * 1898 - Rene Clair, French film director (d. 1981)
    * 1899 - Pat O'Brien, American film actor (d. 1983)
    * 1900 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d. 1989)
    * 1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason, American author (d. 1978)
    * 1903 - Sam Spiegel, Austrian-born film producer (d. 1985)
    * 1904 - Alger Hiss, American government official and spy (d. 1994)
    * 1904 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
    * 1909 - Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)
    * 1912 - Thomas C. Mann, American diplomat (d. 1999)
    * 1914 - Howard Fast, American author (d. 2003)
    * 1914 - Henry Wade, American lawyer (d. 2001)
    * 1915 - William Proxmire, U.S. Senator (d. 2005)
    * 1918 - Stubby Kaye, American comic actor (d. 1997)
    * 1919 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist (d. 2000)
    * 1920 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (d. 2003)
    * 1921 - Terrell Bell, American politician
    * 1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., American novelist
    * 1925 - June Whitfield, British comedienne
    * 1925 - Jonathan Winters, American comedian and actor
    * 1926 - Harry Lumley, National Hockey League goaltender (d. 1998)
    * 1928 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
    * 1929 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer
    * 1929 - LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
    * 1937 - Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
    * 1938 - Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater
    * 1938 - Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast
    * 1939 - Denise Alexander, American actress
    * 1940 - Barbara Boxer, U.S. Senator
    * 1943 - Doug Frost, Australian swimming coach
    * 1944 - Jesse Colin Young, American musician (The Youngbloods)
    * 1945 - Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua
    * 1945 - Chris Dreja, British guitarist and bassist (The Yardbirds)
    * 1945 - Vince Martell, American guitarist (Vanilla Fudge)
    * 1950 - Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet
    * 1950 - Jim Peterik, American musician and songwriter (Survivor)
    * 1951 - Kim Peek, American megasavant
    * 1951 - Marc Summers, American game show host
    * 1953 - Marshall Crenshaw, American musician
    * 1959 - Lee Haney, American bodybuilder
    * 1960 - Peter Parros, American actor
    * 1960 - Stanley Tucci, American actor and film director
    * 1961 - Corinne Hermès, French singer
    * 1962 - Demi Moore, American actress
    * 1962 - Mic Michaeli, Swedish keyboardist (Europe)
    * 1962 - James Morrison, Australian musician
    * 1964 - Judith Edelman, American musician
    * 1964 - Calista Flockhart, American actress
    * 1966 - Alison Doody, Irish actress
    * 1967 - Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
    * 1968 - David L Cook, American singer and comedian
    * 1969 - Carson Kressley, American television personality
    * 1970 - Lee Battersby, Australian author
    * 1973 - Jason White, American musician (Green Day)
    * 1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
    * 1974 - Wajahatullah Wasti, Pakistani cricketer
    * 1976 - Mike Leon Grosch, German singer
    * 1977 - Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)
    * 1977 - Maniche, Portuguese footballer
    * 1979 - Courtenay Semel, American reality TV star
    * 1980 - Willie Parker, American football player
    * 1981 - Natalie Glebova, Russian-Canadian beauty queen
    * 1981 - Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
    * 1982 - Brittny Gastineau, American socialite
    * 1983 - Philipp Lahm, German footballer
    * 1983 - Kristal Marshall, American professional wrestler
    * 1985 - Kalan Porter, Canadian singer
    * 1989 - Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer (Morning Musume, Aa!, Elegies)
    * 1995 - Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor
    Deaths

    * 397 - Martin of Tours, French saint
    * 405 - Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople
    * 537 - Pope Silverius, saint
    * 1028 - Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire (b. 960)
    * 1623 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
    * 1638 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
    * 1686 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621)
    * 1686 - Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)
    * 1812 - Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)
    * 1831 - Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)
    * 1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
    * 1862 - James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
    * 1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged)
    * 1880 - Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist (b. 1793)
    * 1884 - Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
    * 1887 - Haymarket defendants:
    o - George Engel (b. 1836)
    o - Adolph Fischer (b. 1858)
    o - Albert Parsons (b. 1848)
    o - August Spies (b. 1855)
    * 1917 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (b. 1838)
    * 1918 - George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I.
    * 1931 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
    * 1938 - Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease (b. 1869)
    * 1939 - Jan Opletal, czech student, victim of nazi violence in Prague
    * 1945 - Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
    * 1972 - Berry Oakley, Bass Player and founder, Allman Brothers Band (b. 1948)
    * 1973 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player (b. 1915)
    * 1973 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
    * 1974 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894)
    * 1976 - Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)
    * 1977 - Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
    * 1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (b. 1894)
    * 1988 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh Conductor & Organist (b. 1900)
    * 1993 - Erskine Hawkins, American trumpet player and big band leader (b. 1914)
    * 1997 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
    * 1999 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
    * 1999 - Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923)
    * 2004 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)
    * 2004 - Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
    * 2005 - Lord Lichfield, British photographer
    * 2005 - Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909)
    * 2005 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director. (b. 1930)

    Holidays and observances


    * Corduroy Appreciation Day (11|11 is the date which most closely resembles corduroy)
    * R.C. Saints - Martin of Tours
    * Opening of carnival season in Germany ("Karneval"/"Fasching" on 11-11, at 11:11), the Netherlands, and other countries
    * Also see November 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
    * Angola - Independence Day (1975)
    * Colombia - Independence of Cartagena, from the Spanish Army in (1918)
    * Poland - Independence Day (1918)
    * South Korea - Pepero Day
    * United States - Veterans Day (Formerly "Armistice Day")
    * Armistice Day in France and Belgium: end of World War I (1918)
    * Lacplesis' Day (1919) in Latvia: the official date for commemoration of Latvian soldiers, who had died for the country's freedom.
    * Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations, including United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.

    Armistice Day is the anniversary of the official end of World War I, November 11, 1918. It commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning — the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month." While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the ceasefire on the Western Front, hostilities continued in other regions, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Ottoman Empire.

    The date was a national holiday in many of the former allied nations to allow people to commemorate those members of the armed forces who were killed during war. After World War II, it was changed to Veterans Day in the United States and to Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations. In many parts of the world, people take two minutes of silence at 11:00am as a sign of respect, as suggested by Edward George Honey in a letter to a British newspaper though Wellesley Tudor Pole established two ceremonial periods of remembrance based on events in 1917.

    In India, we lay wreaths at the Cenotaph and observe a 2 minutes silence at 1100 hours.

    Indian troops participated in WW I on the battlefields of Europe.

    In fact, as the story goes, the Germans attacked a Sikh position and the Sikhs did not have the time to tie their hair. They instead charged on the German from the hill. Seeing, black silhouettes against the night sky, with flying hair shouting in Punjabi as war cries, the Germans thought ghosts had surfaced and they fled!
    Last edited by Ray; 08 Nov 06,, 07:13.


    "Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."

    I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

    HAKUNA MATATA

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    • #3
      In Belgium they recently unearthed the body of an Australian soldier close to a road. The local Mayor closed the road and ripped it up for twenty metres in each direction and found several more bodies, which are being interred with the rest of their mates in the closest WWI cemetery. Damned decent of them I say.
      In the realm of spirit, seek clarity; in the material world, seek utility.

      Leibniz

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      • #4
        A Pittance of Time

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        • #5
          It Is The Soldier

          It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press.

          It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech.

          It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate.

          It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.

          --Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, Sergeant, USMC

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          • #6
            Oamaru war memorial | NZHistory, New Zealand history online
            In the realm of spirit, seek clarity; in the material world, seek utility.

            Leibniz

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            • #7
              Thank you, Pari. I thought of it briefly earlier this morning. Grandpa fought at the Meuse-Argonne with Co. B 364th Infantry Regiment, 91st U.S. Division IIRC. He went home. Many of his friends didn't. They all felt they were doing the right thing.

              God love them all for their sacrifice. Present Arms!
              "This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski
              "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Lester Bangs

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              • #8
                Presenting Arms.

                God Bless.

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                • #9
                  In Memoriam
                  by Ewart Alan Mackintosh (killed in action 21st November 1917 aged 24)

                  So you were David’s father,
                  And he was your only son,
                  And the new-cut peats are rotting
                  And the work is left undone,
                  Because of an old man weeping,
                  Just an old man in pain,
                  For David, his son David,
                  That will not come again.

                  Oh, the letters he wrote you,
                  And I can see them still,
                  Not a word of the fighting,
                  But just the sheep on the hill
                  And how you should get the crops in
                  Ere the year get stormier,
                  And the Bosches have got his body,
                  And I was his officer.

                  You were only David’s father,
                  But I had fifty sons
                  When we went up in the evening
                  Under the arch of the guns,
                  And we came back at twilight -
                  O God! I heard them call
                  To me for help and pity
                  That could not help at all.

                  Oh, never will I forget you,
                  My men that trusted me,
                  More my sons than your fathers’,
                  For they could only see
                  The little helpless babies
                  And the young men in their pride.
                  They could not see you dying,
                  And hold you while you died.

                  Happy and young and gallant,
                  They saw their first-born go,
                  But not the strong limbs broken
                  And the beautiful men brought low,
                  The piteous writhing bodies,
                  They screamed “Don’t leave me, sir”,
                  For they were only your fathers
                  But I was your officer.


                  I salute you all.
                  God Bless.

                  Norseman.
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                  • #10
                    I do not know your name,
                    Nor for which battle you died.
                    I do not know your home,
                    Nor the tears that were cried.

                    I do not know where you rest,
                    Nor the promises broken.
                    I do not know your uniform,
                    And your fears lay unspoken.

                    But, I do know your spirit exists,
                    That your courage is admired,
                    And your sacrifice is honored,
                    By each soul that's inspired.

                    And I offer you from my heart
                    Thank you, to guardians unknown
                    For offering yourselves for us all
                    That we may keep our freedom...

                    Bless you!
                    It's a poem by Sherrie Ball, for US soldiers, but the message is universal for everywhere.
                    No such thing as a good tax - Churchill

                    To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.

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                    • #11
                      I attended again this year ,and hopefully for many more to come , absent friends
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                      • #12
                        To all of the Veterans out there. Thank You. Happy Veterans/Armistice Day and God Bless You!
                        Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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                        • #13
                          To my fellow veterans....thanks for your service.

                          And remember those who have answered the Last Muster...regardless of flag they followed.

                          May Fiddler's Green thunder with their laughter and toasts.


                          Lest We Forget.
                          “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
                          Mark Twain

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View Post
                            Thank you sir.

                            I could not remember it.

                            It is now on my ITunes.
                            “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
                            Mark Twain

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                            • #15
                              From the IDF's Facebook page:



                              Today, on Veterans Day, we salute all brave men and women who serve their country with courage, valor and dignity. We stand strong with the United States Armed Forces against those who wish to harm us. Happy Veterans Day!

                              And on a personal note, I wish to extend my thanks to all those that put in their time, no matter what their service, staying awake at night on guard so that others may sleep peacefully
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