Erik Tracy
TVWBB Pro
Thank you for your service - every day!
Thank You Veterans!
- Thread starter Erik Tracy
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Thank you for your service - every day!
Phil Perrin
TVWBB Hall of Fame
Thank you to all of my fellow veterans out there and on this fine forum! 
Bob Bailey
TVWBB Guru
Amen to that! God bless them for their service.
TonyUK
TVWBB Guru
I concur. Thanks to all.
Today here in UK was Armistice Day. Today 11/11 @11:00am the nation fell silent for two minutes to remember our Glorious Dead & the end to all hostilities in WW1.
Yesterday was Remembrance Sunday, (Poppy Day, where all those who have given their lives or have served in the military are honoured). It's always the Sunday closest to Armistice Day, 11th November.
I attended the service at our local war memorial. The Last Post was played at 2 minutes to 11. That always brings a tear to my eyes, as did the piper's lament that followed. Not a dry eye in the house. However, after the service the pipes & drums kicked in and the spirits were lifted, as were the hairs on my neck. Fantastic!
All gave some, Some gave all.
"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".
Today here in UK was Armistice Day. Today 11/11 @11:00am the nation fell silent for two minutes to remember our Glorious Dead & the end to all hostilities in WW1.
Yesterday was Remembrance Sunday, (Poppy Day, where all those who have given their lives or have served in the military are honoured). It's always the Sunday closest to Armistice Day, 11th November.
I attended the service at our local war memorial. The Last Post was played at 2 minutes to 11. That always brings a tear to my eyes, as did the piper's lament that followed. Not a dry eye in the house. However, after the service the pipes & drums kicked in and the spirits were lifted, as were the hairs on my neck. Fantastic!
All gave some, Some gave all.
"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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Phil Perrin
TVWBB Hall of Fame
Here’s a young, and MUCH slimmer, Phil at Fort Knox for basic training summer 1980
They were making the trainees do push ups for smiling, that’s why I had the serious look!
They were making the trainees do push ups for smiling, that’s why I had the serious look!
TonyUK
TVWBB Guru
VE & VJ Day are not public holidays here. They used to be, but for economic reasons it was abandoned. Shameful if you ask me.
Many UK veterans who fought in the Far East, The Forgotten War, are still angry at how they were literally abandoned when the defeat of Hitler & Victory in Europe had been achieved. Disgraceful.
Off topic:
My father's cousin was a POW in Kinkaseki (Taiwan) copper mine for three years. He was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore in 1942. He wrote a very good, but harrowing account, (Banzai You Bastards!) about his time there, of which I have a signed copy. He was liberated by US Marines on 5th Sept 1945. In 1946 he returned to Asia to give evidence at the Japanese war-crimes trial. He emigrated to Hong Kong in 1963 and went on to become the Chairman of The Royal British Legion, Hong Kong until his death in 2006. A very interesting man.
He has his own Wiki page. Jack Edwards.
LMichaels
TVWBB 2-Star Olympian
Wow. That is something. It's amazing how cruel things were. Between the Japanese, the Germans, the VC, and so on. Now? so many of us are driving Japanese or German cars, using appliances and other products made in Viet Nam. I could go on but I think you get the picture.