Since Its Memorial Day today and the sunday afterwards which we will still remember the dead lets all take a little silence...

Just thinking about it now the people that gave their lives in what I think was a war that shouldn't have happened. 1 man dies and that throws the world into chaos, comon surely the countries leaders could have been a bit smarter than that?

But heres one of my Favourite poems I like to read on 11th Novemeber.

Dulce Et Decorum Est

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, 
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, 
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs 
And towards our distant rest began to trudge. 
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots 
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; 
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots 
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! –  An ecstasy of fumbling, 
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; 
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, 
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . . 
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, 
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. 
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, 
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. 

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace 
Behind the wagon that we flung him in, 
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, 
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; 
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood 
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, 
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud 
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, 
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest 
To children ardent for some desperate glory, 
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est 
Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen 

Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori...it is fine and fitting to die for your country...

Just goes to show that we need to be careful on the reason why we go to war and who with, unlike the recent major ones.

Anyway, what did your relatives do in the world wars?

3 Uncles I never met did the following...

1 was hit by an anti-tank rocket while on his motorbike with his gunner in the fight in Egypt, he amazingly lost right leg and died after a medic tried to save him/

1 Was a Flight Sargeant in the RAF, he was shot down in his bomber, not sure where.

And the other was a newly recruited Pilot who died along side with my other Uncle, the Flight sargeant on the same plane, this guy was the Tail Gunner or something like that, he was killed by Flak shrapnel before his plane went down with the seargeant.

Honour the fallen and support the survivors...