Lest We Forget The Fallen.

Looks to me like they each are holding either a banana or an onion. Looks like it was taken on a relaxing Saturday or Sunday afternoon.

I still think about those WW2 soldiers and how tough most of them had it. I went thru basic training myself in 1969 and some of my drill sergeants at Ft Campbell Kentucky were WW2 vets just getting in their 30 years so they could retire.

Thanks for posting!

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, peace.


The reputed origin of the Peace dollar, The Numismatist, November 1918, "Souvenir and Commemorative Coins" by Frank Duffield, to be read before the Convention of the American Numismatic Organization, October 5-9, 1918, excerpt:

Remembering my grandfather who was there in the AEF.

Amen to that.

More $2 coins from down under.

Beautiful coin Sharks.

Thanks for posting, triggersmob.
My father's uncle went off to war in 1914.
He went out on a skirmish one night and didn't return.
His name is on the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, one of 6000 Australian soldiers who have no known grave.

In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE

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