Thank you, Veterans. Thanks to all who bring peace. To hell with all who make war.

[Octafish]

The world rejoiced on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month of the year 1918, when an armistice was signed, halting the hostilities of World War I.



The Ossuary of Douaumont

What the NAZI Hermann Göring said 28 years later:

Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.

Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.

Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

In an interview with Gilbert in Göring's jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (18 April 1946)

Rather than face the hangman, the NAZI Göring committed suicide with a potassium cyanide pill on 15 October 1946.

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“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.” -- Buddha

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Opihimoimoi wants to start the Peace Party. I'm with him.

[Sukie]

1. "In peace may they rest. May we never forget why they died.....

Take a Pittance in Time."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tNuyeEyQkM

[Octafish]

3. Thank you, Sukie.

Now, I'm crying.

[DemReadingDU]

6. Thank you for sharing

[G_j]

2. K&R!

[Octafish]

4. Veteran's Day Poppy

Thanks, G_j. Ever notice how ones who make money from war like to show off their flag pins?



Veteran's Day Poppy

I cry but I can't buy
Your Veteran's Day poppy
It don't get me high
It can only make me cry
It can never grow another
Son like the one who warmed me my days
After rain and warmed my breath
My life's blood
Screamin' empty she cries
It don't get me high
It can only make me cry
Your Veteran's Day poppy

-- Don Van Vliet (Capt. Beefheart)

[G_j]

5. It don't get me high, It can only make me cry

:cry: