Reply With QuoteNice to see it so well respected. Do air-raid sirens actually sound?
There is a city
Once a year on august 1st, the people of Warsaw pay hommage to the fallen heroes that fought for freedom in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising. The biggest rebellion against German Nazi occupation during WWII cost over 200 000 lives and destruction of the capital.
Last edited by Mikhael; 08-02-2012 at 01:51 PM.
Nice to see it so well respected. Do air-raid sirens actually sound?
Yep and not only in Warsaw.Originally Posted by happyslapper
x2 ! Deepest Respects
Id imagine if they did something like this in the states, people would be so caught up in their own selfish endeavours they wouldnt be able to put the phone down and stop texting for 60 seconds. Ive noticed this current generation is so incredibly caught up in every minutia of themselves that some of them fail to even realize that there is a world other than themselves around them... that there are greater things....
Ive seen it with my own eyes, a guy having a heart attack on the sidewalk and about a dozen people walking right past him, consumed in their texting, ipods and jogging so much that not one of them could even stop and say "hey, you okay?".... This is respectful, and deep, but i doubt anything like it would ever work here.
Respect x 100000000000
May their sacrifice never be forgotten...
I always wondered which other countries practice the minutes of silence marked by a nationwide siren.
We have it three times during the year, once during the Holocaust Remembrance Day where it is two minutes long and twice during Yom Hazikaron for the fallen (one marking the beginning of the memorial events and a second one during the day itself, each being one minute long).
Every first Monday of the month they try the war/and or airstrike signal all over Sweden. Gets me everytime
Scandinavia overdoing something why am I not surprised.
That is not just done in Scandinavia, it is done in the Netherlands as well.
Who wants to bomb you guys?
Where u from Edison?
Korea lol. You can see why I think its excessive.
Testing the sirens every month would just get people confused over here as we tend to use them for real events quite often (in the south of the country anyway).
Remember the WP? These days it serves as a regional/national emergency warning system.
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