Where did the phrase "Lest we forget" come from and when?
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a movie. Lest We Forget is a story of the First World War, told in semi-documentary style, focusing on the iniquities of the German war machine, and with its dramatic center the sinking by a German U-boat of the passenger liner Lusitania in 1915. The movie came out in 1918.
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This has it's origin with the military, and refers to information that is kept secret until individuals with clearance ask for information.\nNow it has filtered down into common language and refers to information kept from public discussion. Also, some just think they're cool if they say it!
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"garantujeme původ" means "we guarantee origin" ... probably would loosely translate to "we know when it came from"
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Don't know who said it recently but it's a quote from Shakespeare\n\n"Cry HAVOC' and let slip the dogs of war!" - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III
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Here:\n\nhttp://www.bernardsboe.com/Cedar-Hill/Linked_pages/grade4/warquotes.htm
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"Further to your previous correspondence (Q&A, December 30), which attributes the saying to the American General William Prescott, at the Battle of Bunker Hill ill 1775, this phrase is actually recorded some 32 years earlier.\nAt Dettingen, Flanders, on June 27, 1743, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw (5th Baronet) gave to the men or his regiment, the 21st of Foot, an order from which this saying is derived. A man of spirit even for the times, he had earlier in the day replied to a brigade order that "the scoundrels will never have the impudence to attack the Scots Fusiliers", but they did.\nFormed in square, the Scots Fusiliers held a steady fire rolling along their lines and kept off the advancing French infantry.\nSir Andrew, a resourceful and experienced officer, had in training practised a novel battle drill with the men in his square, should they be attacked by cavalry.\nAt last, the opportunity to spring this trap appeared when the square was attacked by enemy cuirassiers. Instead of employing the orthodox tactic of seeing them off by standing firm and taking the charge on muskets and pikes, Sir Andrew gave orders that, as the cavalry approached the front line, the two centre companies should divide from the centre and fall back from the outer markers. This novel approach allowed the cavalry to charge through a lane with the Fusiliers facing inwards. At this point Sir Andrew gave the command:\n"Dinna fire till ye can see the whites of their e' en . . . if ye dinna kill them they'll kill you." The French, as they rode through this lane of soldiers, were subjected to a withering crossfire and destroyed.\nLater in the day King George II, who commanded the Army but was a little out of his depth, rode up and said: "So, Sir.\nAndrew, I hear the cuirassiers rode through your regiment today." \n"Ou, ay, yer Majestee," was the reply "but they didna get oot again." \nThis account is extracted from an article in the Journal of the Royal Highland Fusiliers Volume 24, No 2 (Winter 2000) and written by Sir Andrew's descendant, Major Sir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, Bt.\nDr J. R. Donald. Glasgow"
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As an African American, I'd like to quote an ex-slave named Frederick Douglass.  He made a speech which in part said:\n\n"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."
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Came from General George Patton during WWII.  It stands for \n"Situation Normal All Fouled Up"  One may substitute a different word starting with "F" should one be so inclined. The original I believe used by General Patton was the substitute word beginning with "F".
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It's actually "Veni, cidi, vici."\n\nIt means, I came, I saw, I conquered.\n\nThis phrase was first uttered my me when I captured and drank my ex-roomates Guiness.\n\nActually it was uttered by Julis Ceaser on 47 B.C. after his victory in battle over Pharnaces, Kind of Pontus.
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It means 'A honour to those who died, a warning to those who live'\n\nIts from a monument in Dachau where the concentration camps used to be during the Holocaust.
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Well, in Great Britain (England, Ireland, Scotland) and in Australia, Canada and New Zeland, they have Rememberance Day.  It's the same day as our Veteran's Day - November 11th, because that is the day that WWI ended in 1918.  \n\nPeople in the UK wear red poppies on Rememberance Day to commemerate a poem by John McCrae called "In Flanders Fields", about a WWI battle on a field covered in red poppies. \n\nHope this helps you with your project!
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Choose from those in 'The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry' - not only English but Russian, French, German, Italian, American. Please remember these people were also involved in the wars! Personal favourites? 'Dulce et decorum est', Wilfred Owen - grandfather was a gas attack victim: 'The Kite', Aleksander Blok - 12 lines that could change your perception of warfare (first heard at a comrade's funeral!). Also, 'Do not Stand at My Grave and Weep', Anonymous - I served!
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Sorry you've had such rubbish answers. \n\nI'm usually quite good at this sort of thing, but I'm afraid I can't find any info on the origins of this phrase.\n\nI hope someone more knowledgeable answers you soon!
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It actually came from the war it was a code that meant zero killed... \nSimply amazing isnt it..\nwho would ever guessed that that abbreviation would come into  every day conversation..
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I have a reference from 1997 that already says it is old:\nhttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/august97/terror01.html\n\nThe fact that numerous sources fail to give the original source of the quote suggests that no-one actually knows when it was first used.
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Thus Always to Tyrants\n\nJohn Wilkes Booth was said to have uttered, "Sic Semper Tyranus.  The South is Avenged" after he murdered Lincoln.
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It's Latin - pro patria mori -- to die for [one's] country. \n\nThe phrase "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" was originally used in the Roman poet Horace's Ode 3.2.13.  It's a rather Roman thought, really.  But read Wilfred Owen's poem about World War I called "dulce et decorum est", which is a very bitter poem about the harsh realities of war.  It's a classic.