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posted November 11, 2006 08:44 AM
 Edited By: Editor on 11 Nov 2006 08:48
The 11th Hour...
 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.
Please pause today to honor the brave men and women who have given their lives so that you can enjoy the freedom we often take for granted.
Two years ago PK and I went and visited Flanders Fields...
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posted November 11, 2006 09:00 AM
Edited By: princesskiwi on 11 Nov 2006 09:03
It was packed with people from School buses and tour buses.
But the sky clouded over and it threatened to rain - everybody ran back to the buses.
It started to rain.
We got wet, but we also got some great photo's without people in them.
But just so you know - people come here from all over the world by the bus load.
To pay their respects.
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Bently
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posted November 11, 2006 10:47 AM
Guess it's hard to say cool pictures, to bad that has to happen to get our freedom. Be nice if that did not exist. But I do support the people over in other places fighting for us.
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nabrxx
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posted November 11, 2006 12:24 PM
Damn...
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What we don't understand, we can
make mean anything...
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posted November 12, 2006 11:33 AM
For me the saddest grave markers were the ones that had no country or religion on them.
Those fallen soldiers, sons and fathers who were nameless, and countryless.
Fallen and unable to lie beside their brothers in arms.
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aughtsix
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posted November 12, 2006 01:38 PM
I believe far more sad is that the freedoms so bravely fought for are so flippantly legislated away.
So "They shall not sleep"...
In any case, and in the spirit of the thread, Sir Henry Newbolt wrote:
"To set the cause above renown,
To love the game beyond the prize,
To honour, while you strike him down,
The foe that comes with fearless eyes;
To count the life of battle good,
And dear the land that gave you birth,
And dearer yet the brotherhood
That binds the brave of all the earth."
Here's to all the Canadian and American troops -- Salute.
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