Nov 11, 2022

[undercoverbrother]

As always there are lots of events to attend.

I usually go see the Highlanders parade downtown, but might head to the Museum of the Regiments this year:

https://themilitarymuseums.ca/visit/...emembrance-day

There are lots of ways to Remember:

https://www.todocanada.ca/things-to-...ay-in-calgary/


If you can't get to a service, then at least take even 5 mins to think about what today represents.

[RichieRich]

The crosses are up along Memorial Drive across from Princes Island. I usually make a point of riding my bike on the path and slowing down for a few moments.

I definitely feel our society doesn’t respect this day enough. Having seen Pearl Harbor and the memorial on the island, having seen other mass burial areas in Europe and USA, and having had relatives serve… I feel a duty to respect those people who participated (willingly or not) as that is what was required in those times.

One can still respect and acknowledge. Most kids don’t get it though.
At least my company closes the offices for Nov 11. By pushing the day to optional or deferred to Christmas it gets lost.

[undercoverbrother]

https://archive.macleans.ca/article/...lty-of-croatia

MCPL Paul Delmore
Date of Death: 13 September 1993

[icarus]

Last weekend I had a chance to visit the Canadian War Memorial at Vimy Ridge and my great-great-uncle's grave at a WWI cemetery about a half hour away.

He survived Vimy, Passchendaele, Amiens and various other battles only to be killed at the Battle of the Scarpe at the end of August 1918.

Vimy was an amazing place to visit, to find my relative's name on the memorial and to see the most of the site at Vimy--a beautiful vista over the French countryside--still roped off with red warning signs for unexploded ordinances, the land still wavy from all the craters that were there over a hundred years ago.

Lest we forget.

[RichieRich]

It was surreal slowly riding past the field of crosses along Memorial at sunset today, seeing the crosses each with their own candle whilst people walked and gathered around a piano and central monument to pay their respects. Shoulda taken a photo but was living in the moment.

[transplant99]

[bigtmac19]

Lest we Forget.
80th Anniversary year of Dieppe.

[Puppet Guy]

My grandfather's diary from WW I. Cpl John Maurice Williams, 16th Battalion CEF.

[TheIronMaiden]

The Canadian Korean War Memorial Garden is situated in Naechon, northeast of Kapyong-gun and just below the hills which were defended by Canadian Forces in the Battle of Kapyong in April 1951.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Dulce et Decorum Est
By Wilfred Owen, October 1917

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

[activeStick]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1591075940515213314

https://globalnews.ca/news/9259624/v...membrance-day/

[FlamesAddiction]

My family wasn't in Canada during the World Wars, but I had many relatives that served or were killed during the wars in Europe.

My maternal grandfather served in the Polish army as a medic. He was 16 when he joined, which was normal for many in Poland at the time. He later joined a Polish group fighting with Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia where he met my grandmother. My grandmother wasn't enlisted, but was a nurse like many young women were due to the need. Oddly enough, she wasn't a native to the area either, but found herself there after being displaced from Ukraine.

My father's parents weren't soldiers, but were both civilian casualties of the war. They were actually murdered by their neighbours who were part of the Chetnik faction and our family was sympathetic to the other side. To this day, descendants are still living in the same houses and the families are still neighbours, and yeah, it is really awkward to say the least.

[activeStick]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1591197913475997697

[karl262]

Dieppe