OT: Vetran's Day/ Poppies

[julie at menloparkrandd.com (julie@menloparkrandd.com)]

To those that have served and are now serving.
Thank you and best wishes from the Macfarlane family.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca]
>Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 06:57 AM
>To: 'Daun Yeagley'
>Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: OT: Vetran's Day/ Poppies
>
>I'd been talking to one of the US lister's about Remembrance day and why it
>is that Canadians wear poppies to remember those who served. Sadly, the
>numbers of WWII Vetrans are quickly dwindling, and WWI vets are no longer
>present at our ceremonies of Remembrance. This poem was written by a
>Canadian field surgeon, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae MD, who had spent 17
>days patching up the injured at Ypres, and exhausted, sat down and wrote
>this poem. It has become part of the Canadian national fabric, and is the
>reason we as Canadians wear a poppy as a symbol of respect and remembrance.
>
>In Flander's Fields
>
>In Flander's 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. 
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>Cathy
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