The War to End All Wars. The war we refight daily.
Honor to the veterans--those in the military and those on the home front.
Thank, ehBeth for that link. Hope I can access it, honey. I don't suspect there are many survivors of WWI, however.
Wish you could see the picture of my dad in his uniform. Damn what a handsome devil.
Yep, Noddy. The war to end wars. As the Germans observed, they weren't defeated on the battlefield, but at the peace table. Ah, the irony of war and peace.
Have to admit, ehBeth. Google keeps on the alert.
Wear those dog tags. They are more precious than bling bling. <smile>
when you stop to think about it, there aren't many ww2 vets left either, as the song goes "But the band plays Waltzing Matilda, and the old men still answer the call,
But as year follows year, more old men disappear. Someday no one will march there at all."
most ww2 vets are in their 80's certainly within the next decade there won't be many left
There's a song that I would love to post here, but I have forgotten a lot of the lyrics, and I can't find it on Google (even the poppies don't help)
The name of the song is "Old Folks". I'll keep looking. I'm learning determination.
Panz, it goes something like this:
Everyone knows him as old folks,
With his napkin tucked under his chin,
Damn. Just can't remember the crucial lines.
The bridge goes:
In the evening after dinner,
What stories he would tell,
How he held the speech at Gettysburg for Lincoln that day.
I know them so well.
(last verse)
Some day there'll be no more old folks,
What a sad lonely world this will be.
Children's voices at play,
Will be still for a day,
The day they take old folks away.
i am not a veteran, though i am in the service, i give credit with credit is due. what everyone has done is much more then i ever could do. i give thanks to everyone of them..
You're in the service, Seed? Upon my word. What branch, etc.
well im in the Army National Guard... so its kinda the service..
A kind of service? My goodness, Seed. The National Guard has gotten a bad rep because it is often viewed as being a way out. Not true. It's crucial to protection of citizens during times of distress.
glad to hear someone thinks kinly of us...thank you letty
i have been activated twice but never over seas
I heard this being sung by a vet very recently (about 5 hours ago, in the subway).
Took me a while to figure out where I remembered it from.
It was written by a young man in 1964.
Quote:Oh I marched to the battle of New Orleans
At the end of the early British war
The young land started growing
The young blood started flowing
But I ain't marchin' anymore
For I've killed my share of Indians
In a thousand different fights
I was there at the Little Big Horn
I heard many men lying I saw many more dying
But I ain't marchin' anymore
chorus)
It's always the old to lead us to the war
It's always the young to fall
Now look at all we've won with the saber and the gun
Tell me is it worth it all
For I stole California from the Mexican land
Fought in the bloody Civil War
Yes I even killed my brothers
And so many others But I ain't marchin' anymore
For I marched to the battles of the German trench
In a war that was bound to end all wars
Oh I must have killed a million men
And now they want me back again
But I ain't marchin' anymore
(chorus)
For I flew the final mission in the Japanese sky
Set off the mighty mushroom roar
When I saw the cities burning I knew that I was learning
That I ain't marchin' anymore
Now the labor leader's screamin'
when they close the missile plants,
United Fruit screams at the Cuban shore,
Call it "Peace" or call it "Treason,"
Call it "Love" or call it "Reason,"
But I ain't marchin' any more,
No I ain't marchin' any more
Look out! Edgar 'll be here shortly. That's his boy Phil Ochs. Ahhh I remember that ehbeth.
Seed, in the National Guard, you're as close to service as anyone can be these days.
Given what another vet had said earlier in the day, it made me more than a little teary, panzade.
He's 104. Volunteered for WWI. His father told him he was a fool. He's a peace activist now. "You can't tell the young or politicians anything." Some things never change.
