WhyCzar
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Mendalla
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Nice. Hegseth actually realizing he needs to appear human, eh. Here's another story on it.
Pete Hegseth awards medal to soldier who reprimanded him at memorial site - National | Globalnews.ca
Footage of the Memorial Day reprimand shows Hegseth posing for photos on the steps in front of the tomb with several senior members of staff and his wife.
globalnews.ca
GordW
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OR even Hegseth realizing what a PR disaster this could turn out to beNice. Hegseth actually realizing he needs to appear human, eh. Here's another story on it.
Pete Hegseth awards medal to soldier who reprimanded him at memorial site - National | Globalnews.ca
Footage of the Memorial Day reprimand shows Hegseth posing for photos on the steps in front of the tomb with several senior members of staff and his wife.
BetteTheRed
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I think there is no chance of me ever forgetting. My modes of remembrance are different year to year.
This year, I spent some time last night weeping over a few reads and listenings of Dulce et Decorum Este. Didn't listen to a service but observed silence.
This year, I spent some time last night weeping over a few reads and listenings of Dulce et Decorum Este. Didn't listen to a service but observed silence.
KayTheCurler
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When did 2 minutes get cut in half? Does anyone kmow why? Surely not because people can't keep silence fir 2 minutes any more? We did it as kids in the 50. even though some kids she tear
JayneWonders
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It still officially is two minutes
Canadian Armed Forces' Remembrance Day ceremonial instructions state:
“The last note of ‘Last Post’ marks the beginning of the two minutes of silence.”
They also specify that the Rouse is sounded after the two-minute period.
Canadian Armed Forces' Remembrance Day ceremonial instructions state:
“The last note of ‘Last Post’ marks the beginning of the two minutes of silence.”
They also specify that the Rouse is sounded after the two-minute period.
The silence contains something that the over active just can't process ... yet there are periods ... some temporal and other use it permanently when they've had enough ... really Kush! Qu-ish a start of a string of questions and ongoing inquiry ... infinitesimal detailing's ...?
WhyCzar
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I have just discovered Harry Patch (1898–2009), the last surviving British combat veteran of the World War I trenches (often called “the last fighting Tommy”)
He died at age 111.
From his 2007 autobiography The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Trenches (written with Richard van Emden) he is quoted as saying:
“I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder.”
He expressed the same idea (or very close versions) in interviews and conversations in his later years, after he began speaking publicly about the war around age 100.
In a 2005 BBC Radio 4 Today programme interview Patch said:
“If two governments cannot agree, give them a rifle each and let them fight it out. Don’t waste 20,000 men. It isn’t worth it.”
This interview (in which he also discussed the futility of the war and meeting a German veteran) directly inspired Radiohead’s 2009 tribute song “Harry Patch (In Memory Of).”
In a post on Radiohead’s Dead Air Space blog, Yorke wrote that “the way he talked about war had a profound effect on me” and that it inspired the song, which the band recorded live in an abbey a few weeks before Patch’s death. Yorke hoped it would “do justice to his memory as the last survivor” and help ensure future generations do not forget “the true horror of war.”
He closed by quoting Patch:
“Irrespective of the uniforms we wore, we were all victims.”
The lyrics to this song are quoted from Harry Patch.
I am the only one that got through
The others died wherever they fell
It was an ambush
They came up from all sides
Give your leaders each a gun
and then let them fight it out themselves
I've seen demons coming up from the ground
I've seen hell upon this earth
The next will be chemical
But they will never learn
He died at age 111.
From his 2007 autobiography The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Trenches (written with Richard van Emden) he is quoted as saying:
“I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder.”
He expressed the same idea (or very close versions) in interviews and conversations in his later years, after he began speaking publicly about the war around age 100.
In a 2005 BBC Radio 4 Today programme interview Patch said:
“If two governments cannot agree, give them a rifle each and let them fight it out. Don’t waste 20,000 men. It isn’t worth it.”
This interview (in which he also discussed the futility of the war and meeting a German veteran) directly inspired Radiohead’s 2009 tribute song “Harry Patch (In Memory Of).”
In a post on Radiohead’s Dead Air Space blog, Yorke wrote that “the way he talked about war had a profound effect on me” and that it inspired the song, which the band recorded live in an abbey a few weeks before Patch’s death. Yorke hoped it would “do justice to his memory as the last survivor” and help ensure future generations do not forget “the true horror of war.”
He closed by quoting Patch:
“Irrespective of the uniforms we wore, we were all victims.”
The lyrics to this song are quoted from Harry Patch.
I am the only one that got through
The others died wherever they fell
It was an ambush
They came up from all sides
Give your leaders each a gun
and then let them fight it out themselves
I've seen demons coming up from the ground
I've seen hell upon this earth
The next will be chemical
But they will never learn
Alas ... a free spirit must acknowledge that in power are found corruption ... hard spots ... things to get over in the longer run as we process through what some see as unending ... eternal emptiness? Only the odd rare clue ... leaving us disbelieving intelligence and thus it is unsupported by determined folk and results in empirical failures or collapse of republics because of one sided leadership that is unbalanced as floated to those not knowing equality in politics ... so the schism grows until critical separations occur ... it blew? Done gone it did ...
Thus we project another try at risers ... without considerations a support from the bottom liners ... ending in circular functions and processes that are up and down in desperate relations ... mental dissonance? Soul passages ... stuff from the core is usually ignored as failure ... they cannot deal with self-consciousness ... thus dark spots all over even in the sun ... because of abstraction ... someone or something off on a whinger?
Those we believe they are eternal don't like to hear opposing complaints as the opposed sees failure coming as a projection ... complexity? Like the root of something incalculable ... excess numbers? Growing concerns of something rushed beyond acceptable knowledge and familiarity ...
These things must take a turnaround for cyclic reason ... a whirl ... hu RLGs ... quantum petals ...
Thus we project another try at risers ... without considerations a support from the bottom liners ... ending in circular functions and processes that are up and down in desperate relations ... mental dissonance? Soul passages ... stuff from the core is usually ignored as failure ... they cannot deal with self-consciousness ... thus dark spots all over even in the sun ... because of abstraction ... someone or something off on a whinger?
Those we believe they are eternal don't like to hear opposing complaints as the opposed sees failure coming as a projection ... complexity? Like the root of something incalculable ... excess numbers? Growing concerns of something rushed beyond acceptable knowledge and familiarity ...
These things must take a turnaround for cyclic reason ... a whirl ... hu RLGs ... quantum petals ...
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