[BartSimpson]

Two things:

1. In what is now a tradition at my church, this past Sunday a special offering was taken and the receipts will be split between the Canadian Legion and our local Rotary Club (the vets in our church prefer Rotary as a charity to the American Legion). Our treasurer tells me the offering brought in $196.00

2. The US equivalent of the Cenotaph is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and it serves as a memorial to all fallen American soldiers in all wars. The "Old Guard" (3rd U.S. Army Infantry Regiment) guards the tomb 24/7/365 in all weather including hurricanes. What is touching is when you visit Arlington you can often see the funeral of a veteran taking place and, in some circumstances, the same caisson that bore John F. Kennedy is used to take an honored sailor or soldier to their final rest. The weight of the obligation that many Americans feel to protect our liberties is never felt so deeply as it is when you see the row-on-row of men and women who served with valor to protect those same liberties.

[acidcomplex]

Guy_Fawkes wrote:

Yes and you were schooled on it. Which is why I had put the comment on there just for you. So you could see that even though the term has the word guard in it, you also need to word Honor.

I still dont know where you got the notion that the word guard is synonymous with military.

lol

Quote:

Guard may refer to:
Professional occupations

* Bodyguard, who protects an individual from personal assault
* Crossing guard, who stops traffic so pedestrians can cross the street
* Life guard, who rescues people from drowning
* Prison guard, who supervises prisoners in a prison or jail
* Security guard, who protects property, assets, or people
* Train conductor, in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand

Governmental and military

Main disambiguation page: List of protective service agencies
Main disambiguation page: List of army units called Guards

* Border guard, a state security agency
* Coast guard, responsible for coastal defence and offshore rescue
* Honor Guard, primarily ceremonial
* National Guard, primarily domestic defense units which may have military or law enforcement missions

[EyeBrock]

acidcomplex = loser guard.

[Akhenaten]

acidcomplex wrote:

Guy_Fawkes wrote:

Yes and you were schooled on it. Which is why I had put the comment on there just for you. So you could see that even though the term has the word guard in it, you also need to word Honor.

I still dont know where you got the notion that the word guard is synonymous with military.

lol

Quote:

Guard may refer to:
Professional occupations

* Bodyguard, who protects an individual from personal assault
* Crossing guard, who stops traffic so pedestrians can cross the street
* Life guard, who rescues people from drowning
* Prison guard, who supervises prisoners in a prison or jail
* Security guard, who protects property, assets, or people
* Train conductor, in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand

Governmental and military

Main disambiguation page: List of protective service agencies
Main disambiguation page: List of army units called Guards

* Border guard, a state security agency
* Coast guard, responsible for coastal defence and offshore rescue
* Honor Guard, primarily ceremonial
* National Guard, primarily domestic defense units which may have military or law enforcement missions

Why are you laughing? He just finished telling you that the word 'Gaurd' isn't synonymous with military and your link here only proves that. No sense bolding the part that is connected to the military, "not synonymous" means not limited to....does not directly equalling. Is a border gaurd military? Is a crossing gaurd military? No, so then it's NOT SYNONYMOUS.

SYNONYMOUS means -> equivalent in meaning; expressing or implying the same idea.

[acidcomplex]

EyeBrock wrote:

acidcomplex = loser guard.

sweet i hope it pays well

[acidcomplex]

Akhenaten wrote:

Why are you laughing? He just finished telling you that the word 'Gaurd' isn't synonymous with military and your link here only proves that. No sense bolding the part that is connected to the military, "not synonymous" means not limited to....does not directly equalling. Is a border gaurd military? Is a crossing gaurd military? No, so then it's NOT SYNONYMOUS.

SYNONYMOUS means -> equivalent in meaning; expressing or implying the same idea.

if you want to get all bitchy about it then here ya go

Quote:

–adjective
having the character of synonyms or a synonym; equivalent in meaning; expressing or implying the same idea.

makes sense to me. Guard implies to Guard something or to protect it. What do you call it when the military stand around or in front of something there trying to _______ it, protect? guard?. You honestly cant see the connection?


and I was lol, the fact that we had this convo the other day, so RELAX

[Regina]

Enough........back on topic.

[acidcomplex]

Regina wrote:

Enough........back on topic.

dun dun dun dun dun dun, big bad mod....dun,dun dun.

Trying to make the jaws sounds but didnt work lol

[Alta_redneck]

EyeBrock wrote:

In the UK we did this as Cadets and it was called the "Remembrance Vigil". We did it from 2300 hrs up until Reveille the next day at the parade. I saw that the Air Cadets did the same in Burlington this year too.
They usually do it in Ottawa with Navy, Army, Air Command and RCMP vigil guards.

So this is what I found out about this today, and how it started here. The Legion has been giving the Cadets here quite a chunk of change for years. Three years ago a Cadet read about this Vigil and suggested that they could do the same thing to show their appreciation for the donations. The first year they did the 2300 hour start, but the Legion suggested the following year that they relieve the Honour Guard from the service and continue on until 2300 hours of the 11th. The Legion felt that being out there all night, not enough people were seeing them participate.