Memorial Day tribute: "In Flanders Fields"

[kineneb]

...how little has changed...

:cry:

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

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.

[wildhorses]

1. thanks for posting this

k&r

[madame defarge]

2. Thank you. I love this poem...

[Rydz777]

3. "Short days ago we lived...." That is heart wrenching.

Each day, each week, we are so needlessly sacrificing our troops for a monstrous mistake and Bush's stubborn refusal to turn from it.

Thanks for this post. Nothing could have been more appropriate this weekend.

[annabanana]

4. back in the 50's.. grade schoolers memorized this to recite

at Memorial Day assemblies..
Do they still do that?

[Posteritatis]

5. It's ubiquitous in Canada in November (nt)

[newyawker99]

6. kick

:kick:


:-(

[EFerrari]

7. K&R

Bring them home now.

[PADemD]

8. Every Memorial Day

In Flanders Fields and the Gettysburg Address are recited by high school students at our local Memorial Day Service.

[intaglio]

9. In the UK on Rememberance Sunday this little prayer is used

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

- Lawrence Binyon

[countryjake]

10. Remembering

[opihimoimoi]

11. In the UK..those 4 Tenors ...they sing this....BEAUTIFUL and SAD