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Armistice Day Of My Heart
Posted by Michael Rawluk (Williams Lake, BC, Canada) on 11 November 2007 in Abstract & Conceptual and Portfolio.
I am kind of a curmudgeon.
Remembrance Day is still Armistice Day in my heart. There is a difference in my mind. Armistice Day marks the end of the War to End All Wars. The end of that brutal mindless pointless conflict.
Armistice Dayis the day when that most famous of war poems written by the grief stricken Doctor John MacRae is spoken.
In Flanders Field
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.
by Royal Canadian Army Medical Corp officer, Dr. John MacRae [1872-1918] Major (Doctor) John McCrae died of pneumonia while on active duty in 1918.
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