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*** [[Narm|The confusingness of that statement really lightened the mood of this page.]] |
*** [[Narm|The confusingness of that statement really lightened the mood of this page.]] |
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* [http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm "But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."] |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090721014717/http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm "But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."] |
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* The Arizona-Missouri memorial in Pearl Harbor is also stunningly poignant and beautiful. On one side you have the wreck of the USS ''Arizona'' - signifying the ''start'' of World War 2 for the United States. On the other side you have the USS ''Missouri'' - the battleship where the Japanese surrendered and signaled the ''end'' of World War 2. Oil still leaks from the ''Arizona's'' hull even after sixty years, as though the ship is still crying for the hundreds of sailors who died aboard her. Meanwhile the ''Missouri'' is standing watch over the ''Arizona's'' grave, as though telling the fallen sailors: "Rest easy. We ''won''." |
* The Arizona-Missouri memorial in Pearl Harbor is also stunningly poignant and beautiful. On one side you have the wreck of the USS ''Arizona'' - signifying the ''start'' of World War 2 for the United States. On the other side you have the USS ''Missouri'' - the battleship where the Japanese surrendered and signaled the ''end'' of World War 2. Oil still leaks from the ''Arizona's'' hull even after sixty years, as though the ship is still crying for the hundreds of sailors who died aboard her. Meanwhile the ''Missouri'' is standing watch over the ''Arizona's'' grave, as though telling the fallen sailors: "Rest easy. We ''won''." |
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** Just reading this comparison between the two ships almost made this troper cry. While at work. |
** Just reading this comparison between the two ships almost made this troper cry. While at work. |
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** This troper remembers seeing a photo of a 1920s-era Canada Day (Dominion Day) parade with four women in a car saying "These four mothers gave 28 brave sons." Do the math. Troper's hometown lost 126 men out of 8000 total residents. |
** This troper remembers seeing a photo of a 1920s-era Canada Day (Dominion Day) parade with four women in a car saying "These four mothers gave 28 brave sons." Do the math. Troper's hometown lost 126 men out of 8000 total residents. |
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*** There are war memorials all over the place in Britain. And there are about 41 [http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/ThankfulVillages.htm Thankful Villages] in England and Wales that ''didn't'' lose anyone in the Great War. That's less than one lucky village per county. |
*** There are war memorials all over the place in Britain. And there are about 41 [http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/ThankfulVillages.htm Thankful Villages] in England and Wales that ''didn't'' lose anyone in the Great War. That's less than one lucky village per county. |
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* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20120319181904/http://homepage.mac.com/stevesimonphoto/Murambi%20Memorial/index.html "Murambi Genocide Memorial"] [http://www.theworld.org/?q=node |
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20120319181904/http://homepage.mac.com/stevesimonphoto/Murambi%20Memorial/index.html "Murambi Genocide Memorial"] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110816095002/http://www.theworld.org/?q=node%2F7997 "in Rwanda"] (graphic images warning) is chilling in its simplicity. It consist of a school where the classrooms are full of the mummified bodies of the massacred and heartbreakingly some rooms full of dead children. This troper found the worst was seeing the faces frozen mid scream with visible wounds and still sporting hair and clothes... The fact the guide witnessed his entire family murdered on the site and has a hole from a bullet in his head turned really brings the horror even further home. |
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* ''The Fisherman's Wife'', a statue of a woman looking out over the sea in this Swedish troper's home city of Gothenburg. It is a memorial to all those Swedish non-combatant fishermen and merchant mariners that perished at sea during the two World Wars. Seeing it always fills the mind with sadness. |
* ''The Fisherman's Wife'', a statue of a woman looking out over the sea in this Swedish troper's home city of Gothenburg. It is a memorial to all those Swedish non-combatant fishermen and merchant mariners that perished at sea during the two World Wars. Seeing it always fills the mind with sadness. |
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** The British memorial for their own fishermen and merchant mariners reads: "The twenty-four thousand of the merchant navy and fishing fleets whose names are honored on the walls of this garden gave their lives for their country and have no grave but the sea." |
** The British memorial for their own fishermen and merchant mariners reads: "The twenty-four thousand of the merchant navy and fishing fleets whose names are honored on the walls of this garden gave their lives for their country and have no grave but the sea." |
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