Armistice Day 2008

[_rosiel_]

Ninety years after the end of the first Great War, did you do your minute of silence?

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I wish I was in Montreal, so that I could have listened to the Black Watch and their bagpipes on the steps of McGill university like I used to do every year. Standing in your living room with a recording and a poppy on your lapel isn't the same

Comments

[emirunagakura]

What if I was just sitting here being silent anyway, does that count >_>

Though I do agree with you.

[bobbarker]

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. I had my moment of silence here. I am reminded of stories that my Great aunt Florence would tell me of her and her family during that war. They were from Belgium

[eternitat]

May those who have served be never forgotten.

[angathol]

I did my moment of silence in my room and made sure to wake up in time.

When I was younger, my dad got my brother and I to memorize the Flanders Fields poem to see who would memorize it the fastest. I won, but it wasn't really the point - I'm glad I can still remember it today.

[grandmoff]

Some things must never be forgotten or trivialized.