In Flanders Fields

(Today is the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day, the 11th day of the 11 month that brought an end to World War I.  As always, we post the poem "In Flanders Fields" by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, himself not living to see this 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. Colonel John McCrae 03 May 1915