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I love this speech
1 posted on 05/26/2013 4:54:20 AM PDT by michaelwlf3
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To: michaelwlf3

I do too...poetic as well as appropriate for this weekend...thanks.


2 posted on 05/26/2013 4:56:55 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: michaelwlf3
This Memorial Day weekend see the independent film Memorial Day... available on Netfliks. This film is set in a small Minnesota town and through flash backs and flash forwards traces the combat experiences of a grandfather in WW-II and his grandson in Iraq. This us one if the best films I have seen and really brings home the meaning if this holiday.
3 posted on 05/26/2013 5:43:47 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: michaelwlf3

Beautiful; thanks for posting.


4 posted on 05/26/2013 6:12:26 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: michaelwlf3

Possibly the best piece of cinema I have ever seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDZVxbrW7Ow


5 posted on 05/26/2013 6:50:47 AM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: michaelwlf3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuZAuiLdx2g

To those buried at Arlington


6 posted on 05/26/2013 7:03:16 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: michaelwlf3

Saint Crispan and Crispian’s Day is October 25th.

In addition to the Battle of Agincort, it is also the day of the Battle of Balaclava (The Charge of the Light Brigade),

http://allpoetry.com/poem/8473299-The_Charge_Of_The_Light_Brigade-by-Alfred_Lord_Tennyson

and the Battle of Leyte Gulf (Second Battle of the Philippine Sea), possibly the largest naval battle in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf


8 posted on 05/26/2013 8:19:52 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: michaelwlf3

Perhaps a better choice for Memorial Day:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

— Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD


9 posted on 05/26/2013 8:29:07 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: michaelwlf3

That speech has become the model for every speech of any note among the English speaking peoples, whether in real life or in fiction, rousing men to courage in battle. Recalling it is fitting for any occasion commemorating martial virtue, even if it’s rather far in the yearly cycle from St. Crispin’s Day.

A good Memorial Day to all.


10 posted on 05/26/2013 12:51:51 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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