November 10, 2013
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Veteran's Day/Remembrance Day
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.-Lt. Col. John McCrae (1918)
Comments (3)
my area of Somme-Artois is full of military memorials and cemeteries of the war 1914-1918.This war has ben especially horrible.
Michel
A good reminder of that horrible war... and all wars.
Sometimes I think if there were more war memorials in the U.S. that we might not be so eager to start new ones. But then, wars are started by men in power, to gain more power, so perhaps not.
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