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The Ode of Remembrance. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. To honour the fallen, show your "Lest We Forget" or "Remembrance" themed coins. Fell free to post other pictures also. Here's a couple to start... 2012 C $2 Poppy  2014 50c Western Front.  Picture of my Grandfather when he served in Africa 1942. He's the tall one at the back.  Edited by triggersmob
11/10/2023 9:10 pm
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Good post--thx for doing this.
Also, I definitely don't want to hijack your thread, but can you speculate what your grandfather is holding? Maybe a boar tusk?
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Thanks Spence, I have no idea, but as he is in front of the mess, I assume it's a banana.
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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!
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"Bless them all, bless them all, the long and the short and the tall'.............
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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:  |
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Rip to my 2 uncles who were in the front line in the Gallipoli war as they were getting off the boats.
ANZACS Lest we forget !!!
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The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month Remembering my grandfather who was there in the AEF. |
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If it where not for these people our way of life would be vastly different.so I say thanks to all who have served both here and from all the allied country's
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2010 CN Quarter WWII Remembrance Day Poppy  |
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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
The Ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient.
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