Lest We Forget

[Jimmy1]

"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."

 

[atilla]

Never forgotten! RAKKASAN!

 

[OldDoorGunner]

Never forgotten! Never Will Be!!!!

 

[Trying to get home]

"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."

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"It's simple. You can do something just, and that is to remember them. Remember them. To think of them in the flesh, not as abstractions. To make no generalizations of war or peace that over rides their souls. To draw no lesson of history on their behalf. Their history is over. Remember them, just remember them --in their millions -- for they were not history, they were only men, women, and children. Recall them, if you can, with affection, and recall them, if you can, with love. That is all you need to do in regard to them, and all they ask." Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
, p.852

Thanks to all our ANZAC comrades.

 

[vikingr24]

In case this was not posted before. It is one of my favorites.

If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

Major O'Donnell was listed as MIA while piloting a
helicopter on a mission in Cambodia on 24 March 1970.
His remains were recovered and interned at
Arlington National Cemetery on 16 August 2001.

 

[rickyfinch]

This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes.

"Only the dead have seen the end of War."
--Plato