11-11-2013, 11:08 AM | #1 |
Nomadic Tribesman
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For my grandfather
Lest we forget.....
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11-11-2013, 03:36 PM | #2 |
This is not the sig line.
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Word.
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11-12-2013, 12:13 AM | #3 |
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I wonder how many know why poppies are given out on Veterans Day? Here's John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" after a battle in WWI:
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. |
11-12-2013, 08:36 AM | #4 |
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A man who served, treated the wounded and sick, and died of pneumonia before the war was over.
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