Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial. That's the names of those who died in WW2. Every Australian soldier who dies on active service gets added to the roll.
We don't really mark the occasion. Poppies are rarely seen on the 11/Nov. But the Irish National War Memorial
An apt tribute... This is a must read for every American...It will make you so very proud of our people.. Your morning thought for the day: It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. We have a fascinating piece for you today -- written 10 years ago, just after the 9/11 attack, in a Romanian newspaper. It's about freedom and what makes America different from the other countries of the world. We will be commemorating Veteran's Day on Friday, and the services of millions of citizen soldiers who have sacrificed their time, and many times their lives, over the past 235 years to buy the freedom we enjoy today -- GREEN WITH ENVY bv Cornel Nistorescu, Romanian Newspaper Executive Why are Americans so united? They don't resemble one another even if you paint them! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations. Some of them are nearly extinct, others are incompatible with one another, and in matters of religious beliefs, not even God can count how many they are. Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed on the streets nearby to gape about. The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand. After the first moments of panic, they raised the flag on the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a minister or the president was passing. On every occasion they started singing their traditional song, "God Bless America!" Silent as a rock, I watched the charity concert broadcast on Saturday once, twice, three times, on different TV channels. There were Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Robert de Niro, Julia Roberts, Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Silvester Stalone, James Wood, and many others whom no film or producers could ever bring together. The American's solidarity spirit turned them into a choir. Actually, choir is not the word. What you could hear was the heavy artillery of the American soul. What neither George W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell, could say without facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds, was being heard in a great and unmistakable way in this charity concert. I don't know how it happened that all this obsessive singing of America didn't sound croaky, nationalist, or ostentatious. It made you green with envy because you weren't able to sing for your country without running the risk of being considered chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of who-knows-what mean interests. I watched the live broadcast and the reruns for hours, listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who fought with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that would have killed other hundreds or thousands of people. How on earth were they able to bow before a fellow human? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit which nothing can buy. What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their galloping history? Their economic power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases which risk of sounding like commonplaces. I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion. Only freedom can work such miracles! -- Cornel Nistorescu, Managing Director Romanian newspaper, Evenimentul Zilei September 24, 2001
And yet................And yet............All those Americans that died on 9/11 are unable to get any peace in there grave....and the propaganda spouted by those stopping the families from finding out who perpetrated the crime, even today! Forget the rhetoric.... give them....the Americans and there families "justice"! Regards Highlander
Worker told poppy is 'offensive' A man claims he was given a written warning by his company after refusing to remove a Remembrance Day poppy because his work mates found it 'offensive'. The man, known only as Paul, told 3AW his workmates claimed the traditional emblem of remembrance celebrates war and death. "I've worn a poppy two days before November 11 for the last 11 to 12 years," he told Neil Mitchell's program. "This year my boss came up to me and said 'we have had a couple of complaints in relation to the poppy you are wearing on your top. They find it offensive and can you please take it off'." Poll: Should Remembrance Day poppies be banned in the workplace? But instead of complying with the alleged demands, Paul said he bluntly refused. "I have been wearing it for many years now, it's a tradition I like to do and pay my respects to the people who have fought on my behalf and my family's behalf and everyone's in Australia, and I will not be taking it off." In response, Paul claims his boss issued him with a written warning that will remain on record. Paul insists he was happy to risk losing his job in the transport industry to stay true to his beliefs. "I said I'm not taking it off, even if I have to lose my job. I have a right to wear it and I find it offensive that they asked me to take it off." Next year, Paul insists he will wear two poppies to work. http://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/latest/a/-/article/11580401/worker-told-poppy-is-offensive/
