18 hours and no one replied to your post either.

Odd, the content of the post does not remember our* soldiers either, but rather some other country's soldier.  

* Vis-a-vis the Las Vegas Sun.  Says a lot about certain media.

BT


Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

Michael Baier writes:
> 
> So many happy warriors and chicken-hawks and nobody posts a message to
> remember our soldiers.
> That says alot about certain people.
> 
> 
> VETERANS DAY CLOSINGS
> LAS VEGAS SUN
> 
> Veterans Day started as Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1918, to 
> commemorate the
> end of World War I. Nov. 11 was first proclaimed an annual holiday by
> Congress in 1926. The name was changed to Veterans Day in 
> 1954 to honor all
> war veterans.
> 
> At 106, French veteran remembers life in World War I trenches
> 
> MONTARGIS, France, (AFP) - The handshake is firm, the gaze is 
> clear and the
> expression still alert. At 106, Ferdinand Gilson can never 
> get out of his
> mind the six months he spent in the trenches of the Western Front.
> 
> "I remember all that period -- well, nearly everything," said 
> Gilson, who
> is one of only 15 surviving World War I veterans in France, 
> "I have a few
> memory lapses."
> 
> Most of what he remembers, he'd rather forget -- the mud, choking gas,
> death, nauseous odors and hunger, but above all, the death of doomed
> companions as young as he was at 19.
> 
> "In the trenches, we ate at night so as not to see the worms 
> on the meat,"
> he said in an interview. "The stench was intolerable. But 
> happily, there
> was wine -- seven to nine liters a day for the strongest."
> 
> Gilson planned Thursday to be at the national commemoration of the
> armistice, remembering a conflict in which an estimated 900 
> French soldiers
> died every day during the more than four years of the war.
> 
> World War I marked the beginning of modern warfare. "It 
> caused losses that
> no-one could imagine," said Jean-Jacques Becker, the 
> president of the Great
> War history center at Peronne in the Somme Valley. "By the 
> end of 1914,
> half the French army that existed at the start of the 
> conflict was out of
> action."
> 
> In total, the war resulted in nine million deaths and 20 
> million wounded.
> 
> Gilson was fortunate to emerge alive and relatively sound in health --
> although he nearly died the following year, a victim of the Spanish
> influenza epidemic.
> 
> After a few weeks in the trenches, the soldiers had nothing 
> more than a
> shirt and a pair of ragged trousers.
> 
> "The nights were terrible because of the bombardments. At 
> dawn we had to
> collect the dead and the wounded. Sometimes, when they were seriously
> injured, that became unbearable," Gilson said. "I had good 
> hearing, and I
> could hear the shells coming. I yelled, 'they are after our arse,' and
> everyone threw themselves onto the ground."
> 
> Once, he jumped into a shell-hole for shelter, smelling the gas that
> lingered at the bottom and then living through the first of 
> two attacks
> with a gas "that drove you mad. I was ill, but there was no 
> way of getting
> treatment in that hell."
> 
> No matter what happened, Gilson wrote to his mother every day 
> in the fine
> copperplate that people had in those days. That is why, he thinks, his
> superiors picked him out to become an officer. In August 
> 1918, six months
> after arriving in the front lines, he was sent to 
> Fontainebleau for officer
> training, and it was there, blissfully far from the trenches, 
> that the news
> of the armistice reached him.
> 
> "The madness was over," he said. "We were immensely happy. It 
> is then that
> I learned to dance the polka -- with an artilleryman."
> 
> Gilson, who proudly fingered his medal of the Legion 
> d'Honneur, later set
> up a punch and die factory, and met his wife Suzanne, 21 
> years his junior
> with whom he still lives in a house next to the school here, 
> surrounded by
> photographs and postcards.
> 
> In 1940, he refused to work for the Nazi occupiers of France 
> -- "never,
> even if I had to die for it" -- but today he does crossword puzzles in
> German "to stop my brain going rusty."
> 
> His wife recalled that during World War II, Gilson provided 
> refuge for four
> allied airmen on the run and made false documents for about 
> 60 Frenchmen
> seeking to avoid forced labor in Germany.
> 
> Despite the crushing memories of the war, Gilson has an 
> optimistic view of
> life, and especially about freedom of expression. "Today you 
> can speak out
> without risking going to prison," he said.

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