memorial

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/16/eveningnews/main1414176.shtml One military mother is going to extraordinary lengths to pay tribute to her fallen son. Jerry Bowen reports on her journey in the fourth part of the CBS Evening News special series, "The Iraq War: Three Years and Counting."...

This is just downright disgusting. :mad: The Great Ground Zero Heist

Do you believe that Germans have to live the rest of their lives as a nation starring pillars of cement in the centre of Berlin that will suppose to remind them of the Holocaust? I find this memorial outrageous. The dead won't return and you cannot keep haunting the lives of the offsprings of...

The morning I arrived I wore my uniform and went alone to his grave. The whole lot was covered with flowers, all of which were wilted save the sheath of red roses over the spot where he lay. These to me seemed fresh, vivified by the great soul of him who lay beneath them. For an hour I stood...

The Big One. We should bomb one last city in each Axis nation, using authentic WWII aircraft. Let's say Munich first, then Kyoto, and lastly Rome. OK, we won't bomb them, but we should do low-level fly-bys using modern jets, shattering windows and Chinaware for miles around. A small...

I'm sorry if this is duplicative. Someone listen to "The Hockey Song" on Warren's almost last album "My Ride's Here" written with (local Detroit "sports" writer...also did "Tuesdays with Morrie" )Mitch Albom, and featuring David Letterman on guest "vocal": "hit somebody"......and let me know if...

Yet another (dare I say it?) troll gone from our midst. They've been dropping left and right but I can't say I'm sorry to see S&S go, even if it was against his will this time. This time last year, or so, I'd have to say that I would have been totally against this board banning a poster, but...

This memorial is a paradox. By making the memorial the country has made what it symbolizes patriotic, when in fact it really should not be patriotic. So now people associate the Vietnam War with pride for country and support for the government, when in fact that's really the opposite of what...

As most of you have noticed, Franko hasn’t posted in since March 11. He is number one on the all time posters list averaging 12 posts a day So we can only assume the worse I want to use this thread for us all to share his most famous quotes and post to help keep his memory alive! Ok maybe I'm...