Col. McCrae was a Canadian Army doctor and artillery officer of WWI and wrote the poem during a lull in a battle. The poem is standard fare on Canada's Remembrance Day ceremonies when we pay honour to our Vets on Nov 11. Stan > Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 08:25:12 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOBARRY] Memorial day > > I keep this poem from year to year and read it again - out loud - on Memorial Day. I can't get through it completely without breaking down. The tragedy is that is still applies as war after war takes our best and brightest as they defend our right to be free. I thank God for them but the heartbreak remains for those who loved ones are gone before their time. > > > 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. > Col. John McCrae > Ruth Kent > > > > ________________________________ > From: Betty Lamberson <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, May 29, 2010 9:27:51 AM > Subject: [MOBARRY] Memorial day > > Dear Mo Barry researchers, > I saw something yesterday, I just thought I should pass on to you. Ralph and and I went to Mt. Pleasant cemetery yesterday morning to decorate graves...we came across a young man and his children putting flags on all the vets. graves. Of course this is customarily done in lots of cemeteries by the VFW, I walked over and asked him if he put flags on just WW1 and WW11 and later? He said no. they try to cover all vets if he knows who they are! He then told me he inheirted his list, which may not be very complete from someone else and he tries through obits and notices ( not always correct) to pick up the name of any vet of any war, buried in Mt. Pleasant. I told him about my Great Grandfather in the older part who was a Civil war vet and he told his teen daughter to add him to the list... He himself is very interested in History and genealogy and has taken this on as a personal project...his younger child about 10, was making the holes for > the flags and his teen daught! > er was marking the list! he was carrying the flags! They were very serious in their effort to honor our vets! I shook his hand and thanked him and told him what a great project! and I am moved by his effort to instill this respect into his young children!! > He was sort of apologetic that he was running later than usual, he usually does this on Thursday evening before Memorial day but with so many children's activities..just couldn't get around to it!! > Thought you might enjoy! > > Betty Lamberson > > The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - ([email protected]) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - ([email protected]) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ 30 days of prizes to be won with Hotmail. Enter Here. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9729709