Saturday, November 11, 2006

Remembrance

England expects every man will do his duty
- Admiral Lord Nelson
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 with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
- Major John McCrae, May 1915.

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