Tuesday 11 November 2014

Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month

In Flanders Fields...


by John McCrae, May 1915
 
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.
 
 


2 comments:

  1. It has been a day of Remembrance for me too. My Dad was in the a navy in WWII. My husband and two brothers were also in the military. Brave men, all of them.
    Blessings,
    Betsy

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  2. Thank you for this post. Our family lost an uncle during WW2.
    Blessings,
    Aimee

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