Showing posts with label remembrance day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label remembrance day. Show all posts

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Remember


Please take a moment this Remebrance Day to reflect upon our freedom and remember those who have gone before us to make this freedom possible.

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.

-John McCrae

See this Wikipedia site for more information on the poem and it's author.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Just a moment of your time...



Just a moment, is all they ask. Just a moment to stop, reflect and think. Just a moment out of your busy day to honour those who have gone before us. Just a moment to celebrate our freedom in this wonderful country. Just a moment to REMEMBER.


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.
Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 - 1918)