Historical Remembrance Gifts

9/11/2001 - 9/11/2011

"You're very interesting, for a civilian."

Servicemen.

"I guess I was a good shot, because I took down 50 Nazis...all by myself. That's how I got my silver star. Honestly, I don't consider myself a hero. I consider myself lucky."

"What Genocide? What Armenians?"

"It's going over the top? D' you realise what you've just said?"

"Remember when we had to get along on twenty-one dollars a month!"

'Forget what?'

'Who said the Germans don't have a sense of humour? Just look at that card Hans Greber and we have haven't been shot at all day.'

The unknown war poet.

Old veteran walking in sun casting a giant shadow as a young soldier

Veterans Day US

Earth and war

This time...War on Terrorism.

Television guests' essentials in November.

Harry Chauvel & T. E. Lawrence

Siege of Vicksburg - Sappers Approach Confederate Fortifications

Whilst browsing in his local flea market, Jimmy has an awkward encounter with an ex.

"What's the first thing you remember?" "Why do you ask?" "Because it'll help the cosmologists." "Come again?" "Cosmologists have discovered a lot about the universe. In 1990, they discovered cosmic microwaves are 'black body radiation.'" "What that means is, they discovered the microwave radiation that fills the universe conforms exactly to a pattern known as a 'black body spectrum' that was predicted by models of the Big Bang." "English!!!" "They proved the Big Bang happened." "But one of the b

'What's with the cocoa tin lid?'

Heaven

D-Day landings of walking fish.

Afghanistan

Veterans Day

If Other Nations Mourned Like the U.S.

Dove of Peace casting shadow of a fighter plane

'How come there aren't any peace heroes?'

WW100

Nostalgia: 'In one era..out the other'

Clearing up medals.

A Crown of Red Poppies

"We will remember them."

"I'm glad you got to meet some of my heroes, Katie..."

"He was the finest bluesman I knew..."

RIP R Jones, Practical Joker: 'Sorry, you're calling at a bad time. I'm dead.'