Tag Archive | "Remembrance"

Where I last saw Charley

Friday, November 11, 2011

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The day the guns fell silent; the old soldiers slowly fade away, but we remember. Not every war tale involves derring-do of single-handed charges against the enemy, spitting bullets for King and Country, some performed heroism through the dangerous act of carrying their wounded fellows from the battle. Many became casualties themselves saving their comrades. [...]

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Never forget

Thursday, November 11, 2010

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The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the end of the War to End All Wars. If only it had been. (Charley’s War by the great team of Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun) “The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.”

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Kate Beaton’s Remembrance Day cartoon….

Saturday, November 14, 2009

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Missed this during the week, but Kate Beaton’s simple Hark, A Vagrant cartoon is just perfect in so many ways. That goes for most of her work, but something about this one just hits the spot.

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The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month…

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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(pets among the trenches by Stanley L Wood, from ‘the war to end all wars’) “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 [...]

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