"We Will Remember Them"

[The Joker]

"They shall not grow old as we will 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."


Posted this a day early because Im at the British Legion field of remembrance tomorrow!

 

[wingstoo]

We WILL remember them.

 

[_mark_]

Absolutely!

 

[Radix lecti]

Lest we forget !

 

[Barn Owl]

We will remember in our home too.

 

[dave53]

i will remember them to regards dave

 

[drewdunnrespect]

remember them we must and remember them i will

 

[Seoras]

I have many mates on this forum but tomorrow I will remember my other mates who never got a chance to be here too.

 

[MartinK9]

My Thoughts are with those who have served, and those still serving now.

 

[Buckshot]

I have the great honour on Sunday of marching in London past the Cenotaph in the rememberance day parade.
I'm part of the party representing work

Mark

 

[bilmo-p5]

 

[Pandabean]

They will be remembered.

 

[GordonM]

To all my brother and sister allied Veterans, thank you on this Veterans Day!

We Shall Keep the Faith
by Moina Michael, November 1918


Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.

We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.

And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.



Gordy

 

[Tetley]

Subject: I LIKE THIS TEACHER

A lesson that should be taught in all schools . .
And colleges

Back in September, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School , did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she
removed all of the desks out of her classroom.

When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.

'Ms.. Cothren, where're our desks?'

She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'

They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'

'No,' she said.

'Maybe it's our behavior.'

She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'

And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom.

By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms.Cothren's classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.

The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the deskless classroom, Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'

At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the
door of her classroom and opened it.

Twenty-seven (27) War Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over
and stand alongside the wall... By the time the
last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at
those desks had been earned..

Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education.
Don't ever forget it.'

By the way, this is a true story.

Please consider passing this along so others
won't forget that the freedoms we have in this
great country were earned by War Veterans.

 

[wingstoo]

Thanks for that informative post, I will pass it along.

Wings

Myth Blaster Verdict …
TRUE …
The sender of this email stated that Snopes had checked this out – and they certainly did:

…it is refreshing to encounter a tale that reports the facts with little (if any) embellishment. … It recounts events from the first day of classes in Fall 2005 for students enrolled in Martha Cothren’s military history class at Joe T. Robinson High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The room was indeed devoid of desks, with the missing furniture borne in at the end of the day by a group of veterans. Each vet carried a desk and set it down, as the teacher gave her lesson on the cost of things taken for granted and the debt owed to those in the forces. … This daughter of a World War II POW regularly has veterans visit her classroom … Her class doesn’t yet have a textbook (she is busy writing one), so she uses less typical methods of imparting knowledge about those events to her students. … In May 2005, she and her class organized a Vietnam Veterans Recognition Week, including an official “Thank You Ceremony” held in the Joe T. Robinson High School auditorium. … In 2006 the Veterans of Foreign Wars named Martha Cothren their “Teacher of the Year.”

 

[_mark_]

Defence Of The Islands

Let these memorials of built stone – music’s
enduring instrument, of many centuries of
patient cultivation of the earth, of English
verse

be joined with the memory of this defence of
the islands

and the memory of those appointed to the grey
ships – battleship, merchantman, trawler –
contributing their share to the ages’ pavement
of British bone on the sea floor

and of those who, in man’s newest form of gamble
with death, fight the power of darkness in air
and fire

and of those who have followed their forebears
to Flanders and France, those undefeated in defeat,
unalterable in triumph, changing nothing
of their ancestors’ ways but the weapons

and those again for whom the paths of glory are
the lanes and the streets of Britain:

to say, to the past and the future generations
of our kin and of our speech, that we took up
our positions, in obedience to instructions.

T.S. Eliot

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[mace242]

To those who are, who did, and yet will serve. To those on this forum who serve. My thanks seem pitiful but you have them. You will be remembered.

 

[John Fenna]

I discovered my Maternal Grandfathers story when I visitted the Regimental Museum of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers in Berwick-upon-Tweed this year...
CSM John Turnbull KOSB
In on the first day of Gallipoli, covered the retreat on the last day in Gallipoli.
Served on the first day of the battle of the Somme.
Invalided out of France later that year due to gassing.
Retired from service due to injuries received.
Died between the Wars due to the effects of this injuries after serving as a civilian working for the regiment.
He is remembered ...now and for ever.

 

[stovie]

We Remembered...

My son bore the Union Standard and my daughter uttered Binyon's imortal lines...