Poppies-Poppy Day

[Duke]

No, really though. Do you remember the young German boys that got killed for their country?

 

[Prize Gotti]

I dont wear a poppy but I donate the price.

 

[Da_Funk]

I guess my view is that i respect any soldier that fought in WW I and WW II and they should be remembered. But i dont care for any soldier involved in the Northern Ireland troubles.

Understandable.

 

[Bobby Sands]

No, really though. Do you remember the young German boys that got killed for their country?

what do you mean?

 

[Duke]

what do you mean?

Well for that matter only a minority of the people in the German army were Nazi's. A lot were just drafted in, brainwashed through Hitlerjugend.

I mean, i realize it's a bit whiney to bring it up, but while we're remembering those two big wars we shouldn't forget that a lot of the bad guys weren't bad guys at all.

 

[Bobby Sands]

^^yea thats true. those soldiers didnt know the extent of the nazi regimes evil and as you said a lot of them were brainwashed.

i guess there wont be any remembrance for them. if you did, then you would most likely be labeled a nazi sympathizer.

 

[Duke]

^^yea thats true. those soldiers didnt know the extent of the nazi regimes evil and as you said a lot of them were brainwashed.

i guess there wont be any remembrance for them. if you did, then you would most likely be labeled a nazi sympathizer.

Aye, that's sad. That's why I brought it up.

So also save a place in your heart for young Heinrich, lol.

 

[Prize Gotti]

^^ Yes alot of Soldiers in the Nazi army were given the choice "Fight for Hitler or die?". My fathers uncle was in the Nazi army, he was a 14 year old boy from Romania whos family was killed when the Nazi's invaded, he was asked that question. He didn't want to die, so he joined. When he was 16 he was in battle in Russia, he was captured by British troops as a P.O.W. Once his identity was confirmed as a Romanian citizen, they sent him to England to attend school.

 

[Glockmatic]

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.
— Lt.-Col. John McCrae

Remembering the almost 10 million soldiers who gave their lives for their countries on both sides.

 

[Duke]