Vetrans day!

[MollyDolly]

A little Canadian content for what we call Remembrance Day...

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
Written May 3, 1915

http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazed/images/gazed124.jpg​

 

[janeyl]

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
Written May 3, 1915

http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazed/images/gazed124.jpg​

I was in Flanders last year-I defy anyone to go there and not come back changed in some way-not in the same way as these old boys but changed nonetheless


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7720601.stm

 

[JonTX]

I am assuming Flander's Field is a WWI battlesite. I need to read up on it.

I wish to one day visit the great battlefields across the world, places like Flander's Field, Normandy, Pearl Harbor, and Bastogne.

 

[Morrigu]

I don't think I could ever find adequate words to say 'Thank you' to all those who fought and still do.

 

[janeyl]

I am assuming Flander's Field is a WWI battlesite. I need to read up on it.

I wish to one day visit the great battlefields across the world, places like Flander's Field, Normandy, Pearl Harbor, and Bastogne.

It was written at a field dressing station just outside Ypres in Flanders in Belgium.

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/westfront/ypsalient/index.htm

My dad is an obsessive historian about the era