Episode 4917: WarRoom Veterans Day Special 2015
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What does the nation remember on Veterans Day?
Nineteen years have passed, and once again in silence, the nation observes the day of remembrance. The Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, and his Under Secretary, Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, receive their majesties on their arrival at the Clyde Steps. And once again, the Cenotaph is the central focus of the Empire's remembrance. Although a new king comes out to face the simple monument, the scene is the same as it always has been, but it has lost nothing in impressiveness with the passing of time. Once again, the king's act of homage is the symbol of the homage of his people.
The music fades away and remembrance is united in the common silence around the common memorial.
What incident disrupted the silence of remembrance?
But this year it isn't quite the same. The silence is marred by an incident. A man breaks through the guard of honor just on the left of the cenotaph and rushes towards the king. The police seize him and drag him away.
How do we honor living veterans on this day?
We show this brief scene again so that you can see the incident more clearly just on the left of the cenotaph.
And while the nation remembers the million dead, it is well too that we should not forget those living, the men who, 20 years after, bear the scars of Europe's tragic mistakes. For them, there can be no compensation for the toll on their health and strength.
A few moments after the silence, His Majesty the King walks along Whitehall to lay a second wreath at the foot of the memorial to Earl Haig, which was unveiled the day before.
And then, for the 19th time, the great pilgrimage begins.
Lifted the nations of the world to the high levels of vision and achievement, upon which the great wars of democracy and right was fought and won. And although the stimulating memories of that happy time of triumph was rather marred and embittered for us by the shameful fact that when victory was won, won, be it remembered, treated by the indomitable spirit, non-wielding sacrifice, in our own intolerable soldier, we turned our backs upon our associates, the fewest there in our A responsible part in the administration of peace, our firm and permanent establishment took the results of the war, one that, though terrible of course, was life and treasure, and withdrew into a sullen and selfish isolation, which is deeply ignoble, though it manifests cowardly and dishonorable.
This must always be a source of deep mortification for us.
What unique challenges do veterans face today?
and we should inevitably be forced by the moral obligations of freedom and honor to achieve that fatal error and assume once more the role of courage, self-respect and helpfulness which every true American must wish to believe be the true part, our true part in the affairs of the world. that we should thus have done a great wrong to civilization. But one of the most critical turning points in the history of mankind is the war to be deplored because every anxious fear that has fallen has made the exceeding need for such services as we might have wanted more and more manifest and more and more pressing. as demoralizing circumstances, which we might have controlled, have gone from bad to worse. Until now, as if to furnish a sort of filth to climax, France and Italy, between them, have made waste paper on the Treaty of Versailles, and the whole sheath of international relationships is in perilous confusion.
The affairs of the world can be set straight only by the determined and most determined exhibition of the will to lead and make the right to the right prevail. Certainly the present situation of affairs in the world affords us an opportunity to retrieve the past and to render mankind the impossible service are proving that there is at least one great and powerful nation which can put aside programs of selfish interests and devoted self to practicing and establishing the highest ideals of 50% service and the consistent means to result in standards of conscience and of rights This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
How have military institutions evolved over 250 years?
Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does the nation remember on Veterans Day?
0:11–1:02
2
What incident disrupted the silence of remembrance?
1:02–1:12
3
How do we honor living veterans on this day?
1:12–3:53
4
What unique challenges do veterans face today?
3:53–6:36
5
How have military institutions evolved over 250 years?
6:36–7:06
6
What personal stories highlight the sacrifices of veterans?
7:06–8:18
7
What are the current issues facing veterans and their families?
8:18–9:11
8
How does the episode conclude on the importance of remembrance?
9:11–53:57
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