Lest We Forget...

[Matt_Fisher]

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.

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD
Canadian Army

 

[JasonH]

I'll be at the Pitt Meadows Memorial today at 10:30 till around Noon 

 

[Griswald DME]

Thanks for posting Matt, it moves me every time I hear or read it.

 

[Veterans son]

Thanks for posting the poem, Matt!
I remember learning the words to this poem as a child.

 

[Crazy_Eyes]

A very powerful and moving poem, I just got back from Rememberance Ceremonies, and I heard a response to it, this was also very powerful. I was wondering if any of you have heard it, and if you have, or know the words to it please post it!  Lest We Forget 

 

[ArmyRick]

To all our brothers in arms, past and present, who gave their lives in service to the country, Rest in Peace.
To those of us, young and old, who are alive today, lest we forget....

 

[armyrules]

Thanks for posting the poem Matt and thankx to all the men who fought and those who perished they perished with honour

 

[JasonH]

The the crowds grow, the vets go  :'(

 

[BillN]

Crazy_eyes...as per your request:

We Shall Keep the Faith
by Moina Michael, November 1918

Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.

We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.

And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.

 

[ark]

Keep on posting more poems and thanks to all vets

 

[Acorn]

A piece of poetry often forgotten. It's too modern.
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These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds
So many differents suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
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Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits

Acorn