In no way disrespecting our American cousins, and the service they did
Sorry skullace, the world id bigger than just America
I salute all the fallen Heros 
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On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month the guns went silent after 4 years of madness - every year we share 2 minutes silence at that anniversary point - it's called Rememberance Day in a lot of countries, especially the ones that gave up a fairly large slice of their young men. That's the point - to remember the fallen especially Commonwealth troops from all over the former British Empire - thats where it came from.
Isn't a veteran someone who survives?
And the lines from OP are "Ode to the Fallen" Well Done Jimmy
"Lest We Forget"
