Archive for November 11th, 2008

In Flanders Fields

It’s Veterans Day here in the U.S., Remembrance Day in Canada.  From the Department of Veterans Affairs website:
In Flanders Fields

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, [...]

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