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Post by CRMichaelis on Mar 12, 2008 17:44:09 GMT -8
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Post by rsm2ndbtnlf on Mar 12, 2008 18:22:06 GMT -8
I persanaly would never have thought that so many from all the combative nations would have survived for as long as they have.
For many of us living in England, the topping of the year was to join the thousands around the Cenataph in London for the Armistace Day parades. Sometimes taking part in a march past, other times, standing, watching, as first, the ever thinning lines of the Great War veterans march past, lines as straight as a ruler, chests forced out with pride. They are the generation to whom we today owe so much.
Now, sadly, they can more or less be counted on the fingers of ones hand. History has all but claimed the last remaining.
It's at times such as this, with the passing of another of the very few, that we, as reenactors, should strive within ourselves, to portray those few, as they once were, in the most contempary historical way that we possibly can.
Its our duty, as reenactors and living historians to educate others in order that no-one should ever forget the struggle those chaps went through. I know some of us have seen various degrees of combat, but I hope that I, nor my decendents ever experiance what the chaps we portray, went through.
Bless em all!
Seph
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mg4514
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Post by mg4514 on Mar 12, 2008 18:37:36 GMT -8
Very well stated.
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Post by lewis303 on Mar 12, 2008 19:01:52 GMT -8
You are a well spoken man Seph. Lunde
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