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Carl-E:
I nearly forgot - despite America's habit of moving holidays to the nearest convenient Monday, today is Veteran's day (aka Armistice Day). 

I'd like to thank all the vets out there, recent and not-so-recent, for their service. 


And remember, "armistice" means the end of fighting.  I like that word...

TheEvilDog:
From little towns in a far land we came,
To save our honour and a world aflame,
By little towns in a far land we sleep;
And trust that world we won for you to keep.

Rudyard Kipling.

Akima:
Yes. It is Remembrance Day here in Australia, though many of the ceremonies were held yesterday on Sunday.

Australia lost many sons in the war that ended on 11th November 1918, and among those fields of stone that sprout all over northern France are gravestones inscribed with Chinese characters, only memorial to the largely forgotten thousands of men who served in the British and French labour battalions. Both my selves remember them all.

StevenC:
And it's Saint Martin's day here in Germany which has nothing to do with any of that but with a guy who shared his cape with a homeless guy on a cold night.

Carl-E:
One of my favorite "saint's lives" stories, and wholly appropriate for the holiday. 

Akima, it's still Sunday on this side of the world.  And when I think of Australia and WWI, I always think of this; 


//www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI

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