| Remembrance Sunday
As we have quite a number of the ' younger generation ' posting on here I wondered how relevant, if at all, Remembrance Sunday is to you.
I have been prompted to post after walking through the University of Liverpool Campus today and the only other person out of the hundreds I passed who was also wearing a poppy was a white haired old gentleman who nodded and smiled to me as I passed.
It reminded me of the last few lines of the famous poem.....
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, 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.
Written on the battlefield by
Lieutenant Colonel Johm Mc Crae M.D. 1872 - 1918
Canadian Army ( Front Line Surgeon Ypres 1915 )  | 
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