call of duty 3 on xbox 360
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Not. But I find PGR3 to be amazing. The graphics as well as the sound rocks.
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Funny how so many play games about people getting killed but don't wear a poppy.
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Funny how so many play games about people getting killed but don't wear a poppy.
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Funny how so many play games about people getting killed but don't wear a poppy.
Trollslayer wrote:
Funny how so many play games about people getting killed
Cos it is not quite possible to do that in real life without consequences. And yeah, what is a poppy? :~
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Trollslayer wrote:
but don't wear a poppy
:confused: What is a poppy?
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
A poppy is a flower that is used as the symbol of respect for remembering the servicemen and women who gave their lives in the World Wars for our future. Poppies are very hardy flowers - it is very hard to wipe them out short of poisoning them so they are often the flower seen to grow from the shelled and bloody remains of trench battlefields. Their tradionally red colour represents the blood that was spilled there. Lt Col. John McCrae wrote a very famous poem about it at the time, which I believe is where the adopted significance of the poppy came from. Specifically, Flanders Field is where 368 American soldiers who died while liberating Belgium during WWI are buried, but the symbolism applies to every such cemetery and all those whose remains were never found. 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. When worn on clothing during the remembrance period, the poppy is a clear expression that you have not forgotten their sacrifice. You can also make a donation to a veterans charity here in Britain, though that may be different in the other countries that observe it. Elaines comment, I believe, was in reference to the fact that many younger people nowadays do not place any significance on, or recognition of, the people who died in the World Wars, and accordingly ignore Remembrance Day. -- modified at 6:33 Monday 13th November, 2006 It is almost impossible to find a village anywhere in Britain that does not have a memorial honouring the local men and women who died in WWI, indeed as a kid of 7 or 8 I lived in a village with a current population of one hundred and was shocked that more than sixty names were listed as dying during WWI from that village alone. My friend lives in a village now with a population of thirty and they too have a memorial listing around twenty names. The loses to local communities were significant. Which is what makes things like this so incredulous: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/6139662.stm
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A poppy is a flower that is used as the symbol of respect for remembering the servicemen and women who gave their lives in the World Wars for our future. Poppies are very hardy flowers - it is very hard to wipe them out short of poisoning them so they are often the flower seen to grow from the shelled and bloody remains of trench battlefields. Their tradionally red colour represents the blood that was spilled there. Lt Col. John McCrae wrote a very famous poem about it at the time, which I believe is where the adopted significance of the poppy came from. Specifically, Flanders Field is where 368 American soldiers who died while liberating Belgium during WWI are buried, but the symbolism applies to every such cemetery and all those whose remains were never found. 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. When worn on clothing during the remembrance period, the poppy is a clear expression that you have not forgotten their sacrifice. You can also make a donation to a veterans charity here in Britain, though that may be different in the other countries that observe it. Elaines comment, I believe, was in reference to the fact that many younger people nowadays do not place any significance on, or recognition of, the people who died in the World Wars, and accordingly ignore Remembrance Day. -- modified at 6:33 Monday 13th November, 2006 It is almost impossible to find a village anywhere in Britain that does not have a memorial honouring the local men and women who died in WWI, indeed as a kid of 7 or 8 I lived in a village with a current population of one hundred and was shocked that more than sixty names were listed as dying during WWI from that village alone. My friend lives in a village now with a population of thirty and they too have a memorial listing around twenty names. The loses to local communities were significant. Which is what makes things like this so incredulous: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/6139662.stm
By the look of things, American's don't do the poppy thing :( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day[^]
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By the look of things, American's don't do the poppy thing :( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day[^]
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They have their Veterans Day on the same date, for living veterans of the wars. I suppose their closest to remembrance would be Memorial Day (last Monday of May), but that is specifically to remember American sacrifices (originally from the Civil War, but now including the World Wars). AFAIK they don't have any events to remember those from other nations, and as such they use little US flags instead of poppies. :~
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Funny how so many play games about people getting killed but don't wear a poppy.
Trollslayer wrote:
Funny how so many play games about people getting killed but don't wear a poppy.
I always make sure that I wear a poppy at rememberance day. It also reminds me of when Saving Private Ryan came out in the cinemas. I was meeting some friends at a cinema and I'd arrived a little early. While I was waiting I noticed some ex-service men (all over 70 years old) with a donations tin. I thought it was kind of odd because it was the wrong time of year. I donated anyway because of what these guys went though to keep freedom. Then the auditorium for Saving Private Ryan emptied and all these people started streaming out into the cinema foyer. A lot of people made a line direct for the ex-serivice men and gave their donations. What surprised me was that they were not donating coins but notes. And not the little blue ones. Most were donating brown or pink (£10 or £20 [$18 or $36]) and shaking the hands of all the guys there. When I eventually saw SPR I could understand why they were donating so much and the feeling of gratitude the cinema goers must have had for those old soldiers.
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A poppy is a flower that is used as the symbol of respect for remembering the servicemen and women who gave their lives in the World Wars for our future. Poppies are very hardy flowers - it is very hard to wipe them out short of poisoning them so they are often the flower seen to grow from the shelled and bloody remains of trench battlefields. Their tradionally red colour represents the blood that was spilled there. Lt Col. John McCrae wrote a very famous poem about it at the time, which I believe is where the adopted significance of the poppy came from. Specifically, Flanders Field is where 368 American soldiers who died while liberating Belgium during WWI are buried, but the symbolism applies to every such cemetery and all those whose remains were never found. 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. When worn on clothing during the remembrance period, the poppy is a clear expression that you have not forgotten their sacrifice. You can also make a donation to a veterans charity here in Britain, though that may be different in the other countries that observe it. Elaines comment, I believe, was in reference to the fact that many younger people nowadays do not place any significance on, or recognition of, the people who died in the World Wars, and accordingly ignore Remembrance Day. -- modified at 6:33 Monday 13th November, 2006 It is almost impossible to find a village anywhere in Britain that does not have a memorial honouring the local men and women who died in WWI, indeed as a kid of 7 or 8 I lived in a village with a current population of one hundred and was shocked that more than sixty names were listed as dying during WWI from that village alone. My friend lives in a village now with a population of thirty and they too have a memorial listing around twenty names. The loses to local communities were significant. Which is what makes things like this so incredulous: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/6139662.stm
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A poppy is a flower that is used as the symbol of respect for remembering the servicemen and women who gave their lives in the World Wars for our future. Poppies are very hardy flowers - it is very hard to wipe them out short of poisoning them so they are often the flower seen to grow from the shelled and bloody remains of trench battlefields. Their tradionally red colour represents the blood that was spilled there. Lt Col. John McCrae wrote a very famous poem about it at the time, which I believe is where the adopted significance of the poppy came from. Specifically, Flanders Field is where 368 American soldiers who died while liberating Belgium during WWI are buried, but the symbolism applies to every such cemetery and all those whose remains were never found. 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. When worn on clothing during the remembrance period, the poppy is a clear expression that you have not forgotten their sacrifice. You can also make a donation to a veterans charity here in Britain, though that may be different in the other countries that observe it. Elaines comment, I believe, was in reference to the fact that many younger people nowadays do not place any significance on, or recognition of, the people who died in the World Wars, and accordingly ignore Remembrance Day. -- modified at 6:33 Monday 13th November, 2006 It is almost impossible to find a village anywhere in Britain that does not have a memorial honouring the local men and women who died in WWI, indeed as a kid of 7 or 8 I lived in a village with a current population of one hundred and was shocked that more than sixty names were listed as dying during WWI from that village alone. My friend lives in a village now with a population of thirty and they too have a memorial listing around twenty names. The loses to local communities were significant. Which is what makes things like this so incredulous: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/6139662.stm
David Wulff wrote:
Which is what makes things like this so incredulous: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern\_counties/6139662.stm
That is sick. John Livermore, West Sussex County Councillor for Worthing West, said he was "utterly appalled" that anybody could behave in such a manner. "They should be drummed out of Worthing, drummed out of the country." I'm not sure where they would go if deported, but certainly they should be punished.
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Trollslayer wrote:
Funny how so many play games about people getting killed
Cos it is not quite possible to do that in real life without consequences. And yeah, what is a poppy? :~
Weiye Chen Give me the Death Note, and I'll cleanse the world...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day[^]. Lest we forget those who died :rose: