Saturday, November 11, 2023

The end of the War To End War

This day is less somber in the USA - we have our remembrance day in May with Memorial Day (which pre-dates Remembrance Day by some 50 years).  Today on these shores it's "Thank a Veteran" Day.

But in Europe and the ANZAC nations, this remembers when a whole generation was butchered and damned.

You can visit young Willie McBride in the Authuille Military Cemetery, grave A.36.

Et lux perpetua luceat eis.

8 comments:

  1. Aye, this is a good song for Armistice Day.

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  2. Well done. I was honored to be invited aboard HMAS Parramatta for Remembrance Day at HMAS Sterling a few years ago. VERY poignant ceremony.

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  3. Schooner Fare would do this from time to time, and not a dry eye in the house.

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  4. From Australia 20% of the men who enlisted for the first world war died. In a country that had a population of 5 million at the time. Almost no family was left untouched, there's good reason almost every small town has a memorial of some sort.

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  5. Good choice of song. I'm also partial to "The Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda.'"

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  6. Thank you for your post. And I will admit, I am in tears whenever I hear "The Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda'".

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  7. https://detritusofempire.blogspot.com/2019/10/soldiers-of-great-war-peace-century-late.html

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