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100 years on, and..

• 9,041 Posts

  Fri, Jul 1 2016 4:50 AM

  ....No - ones hand to shake, OR, anyone left to thank...for the supreme sacrifice.

   

   

   

   

  

   

   

• Cuber 102 Posts

  Fri, Jul 1 2016 6:12 AM

  by John McCrae, May 1915

  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.

• whooshdangit 1,246 Posts

  Fri, Jul 1 2016 6:27 AM

  The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme battlefields.

  
  

    Inside there are 48 internal wall panels into which are cut the names of 73,367 British soldiers who disappeared in the offensive (the total British casualties by the time the offensive was called off in November 1916 were 419,654, the French 204,253).

   

  An extract from "For the Fallen"

  They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
  Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
  At the going down of the sun and in the morning
  We will remember them.

   Robert Laurence Binyon

• AGArgent 343 Posts

  Fri, Jul 1 2016 8:31 AM

  Thank you all for that. A nightmarish year....1 July at the Somme where 20,000 of the BEF killed on that first day alone. Also, the unspeakable hell of Verdun had begun in February of that year and went on into December. All mind numbing to ponder.