Remembrance Day

[Vorondil]

Spare a thought today on the 11th of the 11th, for the sacrifices made by the soldiers during the Great War, and all wars since.
They fought and died for their countries, in the mud, and the snow, the sun, and the sand, we will never forget their bravery.

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae:
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.

 

[Vorondil]

It seems like Remembrance/Armistice Day isn't really something anyone cares about or wants to think about anymore. I can't remember seeing anyone wearing a poppy or handing them out for years and years. Maybe it's only in South Africa that they don't do it anymore.

An extract from For The Fallen by Laurence Binyon:
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;

They sit no more at familiar tables of home;

They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;

They sleep beyond England’s foam.

 

[Deimos]

"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"