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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:22 am
by Zaaphod
It's nearly the 11th of November, Veterans/Remembrance/Armistice Day.<br><br>*a moment of silence*<br>
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:25 am
by Richard K Niner
*joins in moment of silence*
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:29 am
by Ibun
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:58 am
by Septimius Severus
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,<br>Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,<br>Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs<br>And towards our distant rest began to trudge.<br>Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots<br>But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;<br>Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots<br>Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.<br><br>GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,<br>Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;<br>But someone still was yelling out and stumbling<br>And floundering like a man in fire or lime.--<br>Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light<br>As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.<br><br>In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,<br>He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.<br><br>If in some smothering dreams you too could pace<br>Behind the wagon that we flung him in,<br>And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,<br>His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;<br>If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood<br>Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,<br>Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud<br>Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--<br>My friend, you would not tell with such high zest<br>To children ardent for some desperate glory,<br>The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est<br>Pro patria mori.<br><br><br>--Willfred Owen, dead one week before Armistice
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:35 pm
by Steve the Pocket
(silence)
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:00 pm
by Holyman83
*silence*
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 3:54 am
by Phauxe Kitsune
*bows head*
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 3:13 pm
by Joe3210
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Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:38 am
by Burning Sheep Productions
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 4:21 pm
by Muninn
I quaffed a few root beers at Bill Mauldin's house, will that do?
Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 2:24 am
by Zaaphod
<!--QuoteBegin-Jacob+Nov 13 2004, 08:21 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Jacob @ Nov 13 2004, 08:21 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I quaffed a few root beers at Bill Mauldin's house, will that do? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>Indeed it shall. <!--emo&:)--><img src='
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