Memorial Day Observance

Subject: RE: Memorial Day Observance
From: Leadfingers
Date: 30 May 10 - 08:58 PM

We (SiverSmith) were booked in Pat Troy's in Alexandria on the Saturday of Memorial Weekend ! I was struck by the number of Bikers who were in the area for the Bikers Run through DC on the Sunday - Mostly Ex service , and having a good time . GOOD Memories !

Subject: RE: Memorial Day Observance
From: GUEST,Azoic
Date: 27 May 11 - 11:44 AM

In observance of MemoriaI Day in the US, I recommend "Happed In Mist"from "Angel Tiger","The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"from "Airs & Graces","Flowers Of The Field-No Man's Land"from "Ashes & Diamonds","Standing In Line","Soldiers Three","The Writing Of Tipperary","Will Ye Go To Flanders?",and "The Nurse Dorothy Nicol,The Long Trail,The Reaper's Blade"from "Always".All of these are sung by June Tabor.
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Subject: RE: Memorial Day Observance
From: GUEST
Date: 27 May 11 - 11:54 AM

The fly


She sat on a willow-trunk
watching
part of the battle of Crecy,
the shouts,
the gasps,
the groans,
the tramping and the tumbling.

During the fourteenth charge
of the French cavalry
she mated
with a brown-eyed male fly
from Vadincourt.

She rubbed her legs together
as she sat on a disembowelled horse
meditating
on the immortality of flies.

With relief she alighted
on the blue tongue
of the Duke of Clervaux.

When silence settled
and only the whisper of decay
softly circled the bodies

and only
a few arms and legs
still twitched jerkily under the trees,

she began to lay her eggs

on the single eye
of Johann Uhr,
the Royal Armourer.

And thus it was
that she was eaten by a swift
fleeing
from the fires of Estrees.


    Czech; trans. George Theiner

Subject: RE: Memorial Day Observance
From: open mike
Date: 28 May 11 - 01:46 PM

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/28/136742729/decoration-day-the-southern-way-to-honor-the-dead

Here is Eric Bogle's tribute to 50,000 Australian soldiers from WW1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI