"lest We Forget"

[Kan Win]

Yours truly

Kan Win

Edited November 10, 2008 by Kan Win

[Chopper]

Great post Kan Win.

[midasthailand]

Thanks Kan. We will remember them.

[5tash]

Our thoughts will be with them.

R.I.P.

[barnsleyman]

Yes Kan,Great post,i for one will remember them at the 11th hour,on the 11th day, of the 11th month. Also could anybody tell me if, or where there is a memorial service in Pattaya tomorrow i would be very grateful,thankyou

[benjamat]

Thanks for post.

The sacrifices made by the valient men in the 1st world war from all over the old commonwealth and others should never be forgotten. We need to remind ourselves just what they gave their lives for.

[sassienie]

My Grandfather.

Battle of Mons - 1914.

Edited November 10, 2008 by sassienie

[sassienie]

My Uncle.

[Huey]

Thank you for the post. Remembrance Day, or Veteran's day as we call it in the States, is my Grandfather's birthday. He past at the ripe old age of 94 back in 2005. However he left us with some great stories of this era. A heart mummer kept him out of the war but he did his part working for the Bud Company in Philadelphia where he maned the assembly lines that built a number of our Air Craft parts. Now 60 years later, I find my self also supplying our troops at war. I own a small procurement company in Iraq that gets the stuff the Army needs off the local markets and I spend allot of time with the troops. Whatever your political affiliations are....man if you see these men and women over there you can't help but too love them, you can't help but feel for them and want to support them. May the Gods Bless them all, and all who wore that uniform in the past and all that are destined to wear it in the future.

[Cobalt60]

Thanks for a worthwhile post. I am ex RAF, never had any excitement unless you count evacuating familys when the Turks invaded Cyprus.

One little thing, I would like to ask how you perceive the white poppy.

[track61]

Thank you for posting this Kan and thank all of you that have served everywhere.

[sriracha john]

[Thairab]

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old

Age shall not weary nor the years condemn

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We shall remember them.

Lest we forget.

[bigtimeali]

hi all

this something that is very close to my heart, i fancy myself as a bit of a historian, i have travelled to menin gate where they say if you can't find your surname among the names off the missing in action inscribed on the walls your not english, it was a sobering experiance, even without the guns and shells!!!!! may we never forget those brave souls that gave the ultimate sacrafice so that we can live by the principles of freedom. and lets not forget that lives where lost on both sides fighting for what they believed in, right or wrong does not matter, for 20,000,000 servicemen on both sides lost there lives. i am lucky to be working in belgium at the mo, wearing my poppy with pride. when will there be in a bank holiday in the u.k. like there is in belgium on the 11th, if we forget history then we forget the lessons learnt. i shall be remembering the silence tomorrow. and god help anone that doesn't!!!!!

[Tinkelbell]

I'm a proud support of US war veterans.

Two things I've done every year on 'Veteran Day'

- Send the check to 'Disabled American Veterans'

- Put up the American flag infront of my house ( I'll do it tomorrow early morning).

[Aussietraveller]

Well said OP.

Lest we forget....

[Jai Dee]

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)

Canadian Army

[geriatrickid]

Thank you for the timely reminder Despite the horrific stories I heard from the veterans in my family about WWI, WWII and Korea, one thing that was consistent from them was their disdain for war and its horrors and a their great respect for those that had served in Asia. The asian theatre veterans that survived the death marches, slave labour, torture and brutality, never had their stories told or sacrifices acknowledged as widely as did the veterans of Europe, despite having dealt with far worse battle conditions, so I keep an extra thought for those veterans. I don't think I could have done what they did.

And I say a little prayer for a guy I went to school with that he comes back to his family from Afghanistan, to his wife and kids as safe as my family did from their service in Europe and Korea.

[ozsamurai]

Lest We Forget

Oz

R.A.N

Edited November 11, 2008 by ozsamurai

[Scott]

Thanks

[Old Croc]

Thanks Kan Win.

Remembered.

[kmart]

Lest we forget.

The brave men who endured amazing hardship and sacrifice in far-flung corners of the world to bestow the freedoms we enjoy today )... We shall remember them.

Edited November 11, 2008 by kmart

[LeungKen]

Siegfried Sassoon

Survivors

No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain

Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk.

Of course they're "longing to go out again,"--

These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk,

They'll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed

Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,--

Their dreams that drip with murder; and they'll be proud

Of glorious war that shatter'd all their pride ...

Men who went out to battle, grim and glad;

Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.

CRAIGLOCKART,

Oct. 1917.

Lest We Forget

R.I.P. Grandad & All Your Mates

[mmushr00m]

Thanks for the reminder. I have been so caught up with my own problems that I forgot.

Now I remember and give thanks.

NOT forgottened.

11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

[kurgen]

Thanks for the reminder

[MHM]

For the last few years I have visited the war graves in Kanchanaburi on 11/11 at 11.00. Often I've been on my own.

I contrast this with the amazing turnout for ANZAC day, with hundreds of Ozzies, Kiwis, ambassadors, Pooyai and diverse panjandrums. I've often felt ashamed that the UK embassy could do so little (lest we forget) though they did attend find time to attend ANZAC day.

Today I went to the cemetary again and was pleasantly surprised to see a few wreaths, presumably left over from Sunday. A small one from the UK embassy, one from 'Alex Salmond, First Minister, Government of Scotland' (sic), one from the Dutch embassy, a few regimental ones and others dedicated to family members. Its a small step, but it is progress.

Still, I wish we could shame our respective embassies into arranging a turnout as impressive and well-attended as the ANZACs.

[bkkjames]

For the last few years I have visited the war graves in Kanchanaburi on 11/11 at 11.00. Often I've been on my own.

I contrast this with the amazing turnout for ANZAC day, with hundreds of Ozzies, Kiwis, ambassadors, Pooyai and diverse panjandrums. I've often felt ashamed that the UK embassy could do so little (lest we forget) though they did attend find time to attend ANZAC day.

Today I went to the cemetary again and was pleasantly surprised to see a few wreaths, presumably left over from Sunday. A small one from the UK embassy, one from 'Alex Salmond, First Minister, Government of Scotland' (sic), one from the Dutch embassy, a few regimental ones and others dedicated to family members. Its a small step, but it is progress.

Still, I wish we could shame our respective embassies into arranging a turnout as impressive and well-attended as the ANZACs.

Perhaps a letter to the editor of the BK Post can get your mission started?

[yabaaaa]

Sadly all over the world many wars raging, seems like they do forget and forget very easily.

[pauls2979]

OMG what these great people did for my home land should never never be forgotten ,

me and my daughter age 7 made some Poppy's to pin on us today , i was trying to explain , that my mothers farther was in ww2 ,

[Kan Win]

For the last few years I have visited the war graves in Kanchanaburi on 11/11 at 11.00. Often I've been on my own.

I contrast this with the amazing turnout for ANZAC day, with hundreds of Ozzies, Kiwis, ambassadors, Pooyai and diverse panjandrums. I've often felt ashamed that the UK embassy could do so little (lest we forget) though they did attend find time to attend ANZAC day.

Today I went to the cemetary again and was pleasantly surprised to see a few wreaths, presumably left over from Sunday. A small one from the UK embassy, one from 'Alex Salmond, First Minister, Government of Scotland' (sic), one from the Dutch embassy, a few regimental ones and others dedicated to family members. Its a small step, but it is progress.

Still, I wish we could shame our respective embassies into arranging a turnout as impressive and well-attended as the ANZACs.

Photos by a good friend of mine Simon, Anzac Day in Kanchanaburi 2006

Thank you for your post "MHM". I feel the same.

Yours truly

Kan Win