Less we Forget

[Hedgehog]

A nation pays tribute: The Queen, Philip, William and Harry gather at Cenotaph as they lead Remembrance Sunday commemorations

• The Queen takes part in a service at Cenotaph in London where she lays a wreath in memory of fallen soldiers
• David Cameron and former PMs Sir John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown also involved in today's ceremony
• It was 55th time Queen led commemorations - having laid her wreath there every year of her reign except for six
• Prince Charles and Duchess of Cornwall have already marked event in Mumbai while on their official tour of India

By Mark Duell


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ance-Sunday-commemorations.html#ixzz2kGV4Yf1C
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24887778
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[Ithikial]

Lest we forget.

And though it's not the poem associated with today, always kind of liked this one by Wilfred Owen.

The Next War

"War's a joke for me and you,
While we know such dreams are true."
Siegfried Sassoon

Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death,-
Sat down and eaten with him, cool and bland,-
Pardoned his spilling mess-tins in our hand.
We've sniffed the green thick odour of his breath,-
Our eyes wept, but our courage didn't writhe.
He's spat at us with bullets and he's coughed
Shrapnel. We chorussed when he sang aloft,
We whistled while he shaved us with his scythe.

Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.
No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.
We laughed, -knowing that better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.
Wilfred Owen