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(Message started by: catlind on Nov 10^th, 2004, 10:31pm)

Title: 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month
Post by catlind on Nov 10^th, 2004, 10:31pm

is Remembrance Day in Canada, the UK, Australia and others - this has always been a standard poem that is read in the schools and memorials across the land.

Lest We Forget.

Cat

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

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.

Title: Re: 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month
Post by broomhilda on Nov 10^th, 2004, 10:39pm

Thanks Cat...

The 11th hour, the 11th day the 11th month, we stand in silence to Remember

Lest We Forget

Title: Re: 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month
Post by thebbz on Nov 10^th, 2004, 10:46pm

Here here. Lest we forget.
BB

Title: Re: 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month
Post by vig on Nov 10^th, 2004, 10:51pm

We are proud of our allies.

Title: Re: 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month
Post by JDH on Nov 10^th, 2004, 10:54pm

I love that poem Cat.

Thank you to all who have served past, present and future.

Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery St Louis MO 5/31/04
http://tinyurl.com/3oubm

Jim

Title: Re: 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month
Post by pubgirl on Nov 11^th, 2004, 4:51am

This was America's answer to John Macrae's poem.

AMERICA'S ANSWER.

Rest ye in peace, ye Flanders’ dead.
The fight that ye so bravely led
We’ve taken up. And we will keep
True faith with you who lie asleep In Flanders’ fields.

Fear not that ye have died for naught.
The torch ye threw to us we caught.
Ten million hands will hold it high,
And Freedom’s light shall never die!
We’ve learned the lesson that ye taught
In Flanders’ fields.

~~By R.W. Lilliard.~~

Title: Re: 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month
Post by pubgirl on Nov 11^th, 2004, 5:01am

and just in case we forget the horror of war:

AFTERMATH
by Siegfried Sassoon (1920)

HAVE you forgotten yet?...
For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways:
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,
Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.
But the past is just the same--and War's a bloody game...
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.

Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz--
The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?
Do you remember the rats; and the stench
Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench--
And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?
Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?'

Do you remember that hour of din before the attack--
And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then
As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
With dying eyes and lolling heads--those ashen-grey
Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?

Have you forgotten yet?...
Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you'll never forget.

Title: Re: 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month
Post by Charlie on Nov 11^th, 2004, 4:13pm

Thanks kids.

Growing up, this was when we went to the cemetery to visit the good, the bad and the veterans. It was a big deal for us. I'm happy to see that it is here.

Charlie

Title: Re: 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month
Post by eddie on Nov 11^th, 2004, 4:27pm

AMEN

Title: Re: 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month
Post by Jeepgun on Nov 12^th, 2004, 12:20pm

*shedding proud and silent tears...*

Title: Re: 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month
Post by Ree on Nov 12^th, 2004, 12:32pm

me too...love to you REE