Armed Forces Day 2012
UK Armed Forces Day 2012 is to be centred on Plymouth and will take place on Saturday 30th June. Similar events will be held throughout the United Kingdom.
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Famous quotes containing the words armed, forces and/or day:
“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon’s teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
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