Rememberance Day

THIS IS A RE-POST FROM 2008….

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My mom just text me to remind me about this poem, however I never forgot about it. I memorized it in 6th grade to recite at our Rememberance Day Assembly. She also told me today that my grandmother who was in WWII was so proud of me when i learned it. I cried.

Here is the poem,

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.

link: In Flanders Field

Today i remember the people in the Candian and United States of America Armed Forces. They gave their lives for their freedom. and it does not go unnoticed.