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Title: 11 November Post by: Steve - K4HX on November 10, 2015, 10:29:59 PM Just A Common Soldier (http://justacommonsoldier.com)
http://justacommonsoldier.com In Flanders Fields (http://www.greatwar.co.uk/images/poppies/combined-poppies-800.jpg) by John McCrae, May 1915 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. http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/john-mccrae-in-flanders-fields.htm Title: Re: 11 November Post by: AJ1G on November 11, 2015, 04:54:16 AM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqba0IUdiBk
Dropkick Murphy's - The Green Fields Of France My grandfather had just started working for New York Telephone in 1917. When we joined the war, entire operating units of telephone companies were mobilized into the Signal Corps and sent to France to install and maintain landline telephone and telegraph circuits. My grandfather went to France as a SC PFC and eventually retired from NY Tel in the mid 60s. He built a lot of broadcast receivers in the 20s but was never a licensed ham. He was the one who gave me the Scott SLRM that was my first real short wave receiver. Title: Re: 11 November Post by: W3RSW on November 11, 2015, 07:44:34 AM When I was a lad it was the highly venerated Armistice Day.
"The eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day, the guns fell silent." "The war to end all wars." "The Balkans, that's where all wars seem to start and will they again?" was the mantra of the day. It's taken a long time for me to see the continuity of history. Title: Re: 11 November Post by: W1RC on November 11, 2015, 10:52:21 AM in Canada November 11th is called "Remembrance Day".
Title: Re: 11 November Post by: W6TOM on November 11, 2015, 11:29:11 AM My father was born in 1917, the last child of a large Irish immigrant family in Cambridge, MA., his oldest brother died of wounds in France October 4th, 1918, just 5 weeks before it all ended. He was only 23 years old.
My father named me after his oldest brother, I think of this man I never knew every November 11th. Title: Re: 11 November Post by: n1ps on November 11, 2015, 07:46:16 PM http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20w6pk_blackadder-goes-forth-s4e02-corporal-punishment-ro-sub-hd_fun AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
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