Monday 11 November 2013

Remembrance Day

Take time to remember those who sacrificed for your freedom.
Seriously, it's a minute of silence, preferably to reflect.

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

Composed by Lt. Colonel John McCrea
a
t the battlefront on May 3, 1915 during
the second battle of Ypres, Belgium

Picture from here

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