Blogs about: Armistice Day

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Cheeky Lorraine gets knickers in a twist1 comment

michaelmacleod1 wrote 1 month ago: By Michael MacLeod LORRAINE Kelly became the Armed Forces new poster girl yesterday when she almost … more →

Tags: 1, Edinburgh, News, Pictures], Scotland, Deadline Press & Picture Agency, deadline, Army, Edinburgh News

113!!!

Cindy wrote 1 month ago: Henry Allingham celebrates 113th birthday 5 hours 13 mins ago ITN Europe’s oldest man Henry Al … more →

Tags: Royal Navy, 113th birthday, Henry Allingham, royal air force, Europe'soldest man, 3 centuries, 6 monarchs, First World War, Battle of Jutland

megan_swing: V-E Day

fawngrubbsya wrote 2 months ago: VE Day. What more can I say? . Posted by Rustmeister at 2:55 AM. Labels: Military, Veteran Affairs. … more →

Tags: VE Day, v-day, ve day 1945, May 8th, Atlantic Charter

The End of an Era

Mark Devereux wrote 5 months ago: The last term of my College finished in May of 1936. Soon after, I learned that I had got through wi … more →

Tags: Devereux, Anita Simpson, London, Depression, Tower of London, Canterbury Cathedral, battersea, Alec Simpson, Ranchi

Pink Scented Toilet Paper7 comments

Corey Chan wrote 7 months ago: (UPDATED WITH VIDEOS) BLOIS, France – 6 décembre 2008 (Day 75) – 4:16 pm (7:16 am PST) A … more →

Tags: Life in France, Paris, Tours, Blois, Summary, Teaching, @ vacation, Orleans, Cheverny

2008 marks the 90th Anniversary of the end of WWI1 comment

Diana Mandache wrote 8 months ago: Allied Rulers & their consorts - Diana Mandache collection    At the end of the First World War … more →

Tags: European royal families, World War One, First World War, primul razboi mondial, 11 November 1918, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Leaders, Royalty, Habsburg

Horses and trenches1 comment

brechtv. wrote 8 months ago: Dead bodies, like grapes hanging to the ground; a red sun orphaning a son from a far. Cigarettes, bu … more →

Tags: Poetry, Art, Literature, War, English poetry, Remembrance Day, Trenches, world war, 11-November

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax

gnohc wrote 8 months ago: November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape … more →

Tags: Veterans Day, Random House Trade Paperbacks, Remembrance Day, 11th of november, Armistace Day, 11th November, Joseph Persico

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax

elob wrote 8 months ago: November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape … more →

Tags: Veterans Day, Random House Trade Paperbacks, Remembrance Day, Rememberance Day, Poppy Day, Joseph Persico

The Battle of the Somme1 comment

richie71 wrote 8 months ago: Last night I watched The Battle of the Somme, a British film made in 1916, which shows scenes from b … more →

Tags: Second World War, World War II, Ernie Morris, Tom Berrisford, First World War, World War One, World War I, Poppies, Veterans

Armistice Day & Remembrance Sunday

scatts wrote 8 months ago: Sunday just gone we were in the UK and it was Remembrance Sunday, which is always the nearest Sunday … more →

Tags: Daily Journal, In Flanders Fields, John McCrae, Remembrance Day, Mine rescue, Port Said, Suez Crisis, Trincomalee, Word wars

A Bookish Uncle4 comments

wordtapestry wrote 8 months ago: Uncle H was quiet, worked in a library, and collected — books of poetry from WWI, fine china, … more →

Tags: Books, Holidays, Poetry, Dylan Thomas, Veterans Day

Lest we forget

frabjousdays wrote 8 months ago: Yesterday was Armistice Day, the symbolic end of World War I on 11 November 1918, significant also b … more →

Tags: Festivals, History, Remembrance Day, Veterans Day, Poppies

And In The Sky the Larks Still Bravely Singing Fly

Melanie wrote 8 months ago: On November 11th we mark Remembrance Day in Canada. Originally Armistice Day, it’s expanded from jus … more →

Tags: General Blatherings, Family, Remembrance Day, November 11th, World War II

Ruminations on Armistice Day4 comments

JL Wall wrote 8 months ago: I’ve read a good deal of Vonnegut in my time, but the one passage that seems most stuck in my mind c … more →

Tags: jlw, musings, Veterans Day, Kurt Vonnegut, emmylou harris, Leonard Cohen

11/112 comments

transitionland wrote 8 months ago: For another few minutes, it will still be Veterans Day here in the U.S. Elsewhere, it was/is Rememb … more →

Tags: War, united states, Thinking...about stuff, Political Culture, Veterans Day, Remembrance Day, 1111

On Veterans Day2 comments

Harper wrote 8 months ago: Taken at The Wall, November 11, 2008. The Purple Heart you see here is legitimate in a sense, thoug … more →

Tags: Events, Personal, Photographs, Places and Exploring, Real Life, Purple Heart, Remembrance Day, Second-Life, Veterans Day

1918

mmwm wrote 8 months ago: It was 90 years ago today that the fighting of World War I between the Allies and Germany ceased, on … more →

Tags: Lists, Health And Medicine, public affairs, law and politics, travel and place, History, 1918, Spanish Flu, flu epidemic, Influenza

A day for our Veterans1 comment

Melissa Campbell wrote 8 months ago: Image from flickr.com Today is Veterans Day. Parades, speeches, and school closures mark the celebra … more →

Tags: Politics, PLU, Veterans Day, November 11, World War 1, Government


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