Today is Rememberance Day. Here in Canada we make sure we do not forget. Poppies are on sale everywhere and the majority of people are wearing them. The news has had an item about veterans everyday this week. Schools were off on Friday so they had ceremonies on Thursday.
We shall not forget.
In America today is Veterans Day and is not honoured by the general public. Most people are aware of it only because the banks and government offices are closed. Here is the link to Wikipedia which gives information about this day across the world.
There has been much press this year about white poppies. I was surprised to find out that they have been around since 1933. I wonder if they knew what was happenning in Germany at that time?
We shalll not forget.
Please observe two minutes silence at 11.00 am today.
In Flanders Fields
By John McCrae
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.
Ode of Rememberance from They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Laurence Binyon's For the Fallen
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
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