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Corporal Buckles laid to rest at Arlington

Started by CountDeMoney, March 15, 2011, 07:14:15 PM

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Barrister

#30
March 16, 2011, 12:15:56 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 16, 2011, 11:32:36 AM
I haven't (altho it doesn't the same reach here then in the rest of Canada).

Ceremonies are all well in good but that's not what I meant. I don't know the situation in Canada but from the article it's clear the WWI vet never got the treatment the WWII vet got.

But you live in Canada...

WWI vets in this country received a lot of attention.  As I mentioned, Rememberance Day and the poppy go back to WWI, not WWII.

Now they didn't get as good a financial deal as returning WWII vets did, it is true.  But the world kind of went into a large recession in 1919.
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Grey Fox

#31
March 16, 2011, 12:34:58 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 16, 2011, 12:15:56 PM
But you live in Canada...

Sometimes, I wonder.
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Habbaku

#32
March 16, 2011, 01:34:46 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 16, 2011, 12:13:57 PM
Yeah, let's not talk about the Korean Wars vet, those guys got screwed. The worse remains the Spanish civil war vets, atleast here.

Did many Canadians go off to fight for the Nationalists?
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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Grey Fox

#33
March 16, 2011, 01:46:09 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on March 16, 2011, 01:34:46 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 16, 2011, 12:13:57 PM
Yeah, let's not talk about the Korean Wars vet, those guys got screwed. The worse remains the Spanish civil war vets, atleast here.

Did many Canadians go off to fight for the Nationalists?

If any did they hid it better then those on the Republican side did.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Habbaku

#34
March 16, 2011, 01:48:36 PM
Makes sense that they didn't receive any adulation, then--they were too humble.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Jacob

#35
March 16, 2011, 02:01:22 PM
You know it's a bad troll when you have to use a second post in the hope of getting a bite.

Eddie Teach

#36
March 16, 2011, 02:22:27 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 16, 2011, 06:34:28 AM
When he didn't post any comments you people keep crying about it, now that he does you are still crying.

Bunch of emotweens.

Maybe, and this might just blow your mind, it's different people making the different complaints.

I don't care at all if people choose not to comment on a news story they post. If the story is interesting it speaks for itself. Tim's comments-because-I-have-to can be slightly annoying at times, but not really worth mentioning- I only said something because you brought it up.
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grumbler

#37
March 16, 2011, 02:29:04 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 16, 2011, 12:13:57 PM
The worse remains the Spanish civil war vets, atleast here.
:huh:  I wasn't even aware Canada was a belligerent in the Spanish Civil War!  Which side did Canada take?
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#38
March 16, 2011, 02:54:58 PM
Quote from: grumbler on March 16, 2011, 02:29:04 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 16, 2011, 12:13:57 PM
The worse remains the Spanish civil war vets, atleast here.
:huh:  I wasn't even aware Canada was a belligerent in the Spanish Civil War!  Which side did Canada take?

:hmm:
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Caliga

#39
March 16, 2011, 02:57:36 PM
Quote from: grumbler on March 16, 2011, 02:29:04 PM
:huh:  I wasn't even aware Canada was a belligerent in the Spanish Civil War!  Which side did Canada take?
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Admiral Yi

#40
March 16, 2011, 05:53:41 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 16, 2011, 12:13:57 PM
Yeah, let's not talk about the Korean Wars vet, those guys got screwed. The worse remains the Spanish civil war vets, atleast here.
Please elaborate.

Zoupa

#41
March 16, 2011, 09:44:26 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 15, 2011, 07:14:15 PM
QuoteFrank Buckles, last U.S. vet­eran of World War I, laid to rest at Arlington
By Paul Duggan, Tuesday, March 15, 5:42 PM

A lowly corporal of long ago was buried Tuesday in Arlington National Cemetery, ushered to his grave with all the Army's Old Guard solemn pomp.

Frank Woodruff Buckles lived to be 110, the last of nearly 5 million American veterans of a dimly remembered war — a generation now laid to rest.

Wtf. 5 million ?

Habbaku

#42
March 16, 2011, 10:01:55 PM
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Zoupa

#43
March 17, 2011, 01:55:32 AM
You guys were at war for a year and had a 5-million strong army/navy/air force?

MadBurgerMaker

#44
March 17, 2011, 02:13:38 AM Last Edit: March 17, 2011, 02:23:32 AM by MadBurgerMaker
Quote from: Zoupa on March 17, 2011, 01:55:32 AM
You guys were at war for a year and had a 5-million strong army/navy/air force?

4.5 million, I think?  Something like that.

Edit:  4.7?  Fuck I don't remember.  Eh.  Couple hundred thousand plus or minus.  No biggie.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M   :D
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