Never forget

[Zaaphod]

It's nearly the 11th of November, Veterans/Remembrance/Armistice Day.<br><br>*a moment of silence*<br>

[Richard K Niner]

*joins in moment of silence*

[Ibun]

<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>...</span>

[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

[Steve the Pocket]

(silence)

[Holyman83]

*silence*

[Phauxe Kitsune]

*bows head*

[Joe3210]

...

[Burning Sheep Productions]

[Muninn]

I quaffed a few root beers at Bill Mauldin's house, will that do?

[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='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--><br><br><img src='http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/BillMau ... riggee.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />