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Sunday, November 11, 2018

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
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2 comments:

  1. LindaG12:21 PM

    I remember when we learned that poem in school. I bet they don't do that any more.
    Thank you for sharing this, TB. I will post on faceless book.

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  2. Toirdhealbheach Beucail5:59 PM

    I do too Linda. Hopefully they still study it for the beauty of the poetry if not for the history.

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