Re: Happy Veteran's Day.....
Happy? That's not a word that I think is appropriate at all, that just equates it to Xmas, the New Year and birthdays etc.
I think the following more aptly represents to-days feelings.
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.
Major John McCrae, May 1915
First World War Poems - In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
The story of the poppy.
Last edited by onehundred80; Nov 11, 2012 at 02:30 PM.