In honor of the anniversary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrQnnZJ68Xo
:cry:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10agPj0Vzu4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10agPj0Vzu4)
To that I add the Fields of Athenry, redone by a local band in honor of a New England lady whose husband fell in Afghanistan.
I remember back in the mid 90's when I was i Dublin with my class, it was in November and "the Green fields of France" was played in just about every pub we visited. Some of the girls in my group, with their usual lack situation awareness, though it was a stupid song and didnt fail to tell it to everyone, I was so close to smacking them...
Flanders Fields FTW! but those others are of the mood too. Lest We Forget etc. :poppy:
:( The last two Tommies died this year. I wonder if any Doughboys, Landsers, Diggers, or Poilu are still kicking around.
Quote from: Razgovory on November 11, 2009, 01:42:24 PM
:( The last two Tommies died this year. I wonder if any Doughboys, Landsers, Diggers, or Poilu are still kicking around.
The last german verteran died in january 2008, his last remaining french counterpart followed only weeks later. The last austrian veteran died in May 2008 and the last turkish one in april 2008.
It had been the death of an era. :cry:
One Tommy is still left, plus a Canucklehead and a Yank. The Tommy is in Oz now.
http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=DS2HPG10
it's in dutch but basically the article is about the youngest officially recognised civilian victim (26 years old now) of the First World War.
The ammo in stuck in Flanders' Fields even now still makes casualties.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsOsdGtBBTg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsOsdGtBBTg)
Wonderful choral rendition of In Flanders Fields. :(