In article , John Penta
writes
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:47:13 GMT, Andrew Chaplin
wrote:

John Mullen wrote:

"Les Matheson" wrote in message
news:XkUrb.17328$In3.5623@lakeread01...
Art, I think this day is to say thank you for guys like you who made it
back. We have Memorial Day to remember the others.

Hear hear.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/0...337484,00.html

Yikes! That's unkind, even if apposite.

Much agreement. Very unkind.

The pop-up burger ad makes it even more tasteless.

Nonetheless, anyone know where I could find the original words to
that?

(Where did it get so famous, either? I remember hearing "Lest We
Forget" a lot around 11/11...But have never understood why. Yeah, I'm
young.)

John

The words are from a poem by Lawrence Binyon: For the fallen

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWbinyon.htm

Remembrance Day or Armistice Day, which are the names used in the
Commonwealth (I haven't been able to discover which one is the official
name) always brings a tear to my eye, even though I never served in the
armed forces. None of my immediate family was lost in war, but I do know
people who lost friends and family in the Falklands.

Three of the remaining 26 WW1 veterans left in the UK were at the
Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday, all of them over 100 years old.
--
Peter

Ying tong iddle-i po!