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SandiM
Lt.Jg.
Joined: 07 Sep 2004
Posts: 108
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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 Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:36 pm Post subject: Lest we forget... |
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Here in Australia we have a Returned Services League (membership includes current service personnel, associate membership for others) which operates thousands of licenced clubs all over the country.
In these clubs whatever is happening - meals, concerts, slot machines - stops at EXACTLY 2100 hours every night. House lights are dimmed, everyone stands in silence while the following ode, which I believe applies just as well to September 11 victims, is read:
They shall not grow old
As we, who 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.
(One minute's silence then all say)
LEST WE FORGET!
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MJB
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Joined: 14 Aug 2004
Posts: 425
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Wow...that's really moving.
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TalkMilitary
Seaman Recruit
Joined: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 14
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: Lest we forget... |
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Very touching. It is an International problem, and it is great to see others are remembering.
| SandiM wrote: | Here in Australia we have a Returned Services League (membership includes current service personnel, associate membership for others) which operates thousands of licenced clubs all over the country.
In these clubs whatever is happening - meals, concerts, slot machines - stops at EXACTLY 2100 hours every night. House lights are dimmed, everyone stands in silence while the following ode, which I believe applies just as well to September 11 victims, is read:
They shall not grow old
As we, who 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.
(One minute's silence then all say)
LEST WE FORGET! |
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