11th November, 2024

Remember

A thought for your day this Remembrance Day, with my good wishes and a few images. I took this close up of a poppy here in Vancouver. Below, photos from our 2018 visit to Ottawa, inside Canada‘s Peace Tower on Parliament Hill, and at the National War Memorial and its tomb of the unknown soldier. (Down) Under those shots, you’ll see thee Sydney Opera House in Australia, all lit up for Remembrance Day when I was there last year.

IN FLANDERS FIELDS

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.

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

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John McRae, the Canadian doctor who penned In Flanders Fields

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