New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for May 28, 2012

To all who served, thank you.

Thank you, Pab.

Thank you for the lovely tribute to those who paid the ultimate price.

Thanks, Pab. I have to agree with surfstuff55, though.

Pab, thank you for starting and maintaining this annual tradition.

Nice one, Pab.

for those who served, offer them a handshake and a beer. from flanders field to normandy to iwo to chosin to khe sanh to fallujah to helmand, give them a moment of silence.

Absolutely beautiful. Thank you.

^ and Semper Paratus!

Thank you, Pab

…by Canadian physician/Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. Written May 3, 1915, after the funeral of his friend Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.McCrae died in Mar, 1918, after contracting pneumonia and cerebral meningitis, after 3 years of war, so he never made it out of the Great War alive, either…

Brilliant.

Nice Pab.

We used to memorize and recite this every year back in elementary school.

very nice

Well done.

The heroes, the fallen, I left behind on Luzon. Bless them all…

Thanks Pab. A poem learned as a child, revisited as a soldier, remembered as a traveler visiting Belgium, and never forgotten as an old vet.And for the millions of fallen heroes who gave their lives for a cause and an ideal, we honor and recognize your valor.

Well done, friend.

I cannot read that poem without tears, for those who died, for those today who go in harm’s way —and for those who love them.

Thank you, Pab. It’s nice seeing someone take on Schulz’ mantle here. These tributes are always very moving.

They grow poppies in Afghanistan and Pakistan too. Irony, no?

“Lives in the Balance” Jackson Browne. ’nuf said…

When the last trumpet blows

Sic transit gloria mundi…

When will the blood letting cease?

Well done.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

XO