Remembrance Day

[Mrs.Greg]

This is for all the boys and girls that gave thier lives so I can live free,esp. for my eight great Uncles that lost thier lives in WW2

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae, May 1915

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.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Thank You

 

[Nicky]

Thank you for posting that. And a giant THANK YOU to all the Veterans, and servicemen :!: :!:

 

[Hanta Yo]

I really like that poem! Thanks for sharing!

I agree with Nicky, thanks to all the servicemen who gave up their lives to keep us free!

 

[jodywy]

11-11-11-18
10,000 solders were killed or wounded in the few hours before the Armistice , at 11 am on the 11 day of the 11 month of 1918, minutes after 11 both sides walked out into no mans land and shook hand with those they wee trying to kill only minutes earlier.
Hope everybody said thank you in your prays today for those who fought to keep FREEDOM FREE.

 

[Yanuck]

WW1 ended in 1918, not 1916

 

[Steve]

(Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice.)

 

[Steve]

(Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice.)

Armistice Day Becomes Veterans Day

World War I officially ended on June 28, 1919, with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The actual fighting between the Allies and Germany, however, had ended seven months earlier with the armistice, which went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. Armistice Day, as November 11 became known, officially became a holiday in the United States in 1926, and a national holiday 12 years later. On June 1, 1954, the name was changed to Veterans Day to honor all U.S. veterans.

In 1968, new legislation changed the national commemoration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. It soon became apparent, however, that November 11 was a date of historic significance to many Americans. Therefore, in 1978 Congress returned the observance to its traditional date.

To all vets "Thank you"

 

[Texan]

Hope everybody said thank you in your prays today for those who fought to keep FREEDOM FREE.

Great idea, Jody. We've done that at my place - in fact, we do it every day.

Thanks to all vets AND their families.

 

[hillsdown]

Bless all that have served and are serving now for our freedom.
Please bring all of our loved ones home safely.

 

[Shelly]

Went to a service today, not many Veterans left around here.
On a side note, did you all know that poem was written by a Canadian? He was a doctor in world war one. That poem gives me chills every time I hear it. That, and when they play the bugle.

 

[Kato]

:agree:

Nov. 11 has taken on a whole new meaning for me this year. I have been doing family research into my great grandparents, and found some remarkable things. My great grandfather came from Scotland in 1905, and when the war broke out he enlisted. He left his young pregnant wife and five children behind. After he enlisted she fell ill with TB. The army sent him to France anyway, and the children were put into an orphanage. Great grandmother died a couple of weeks after having the baby. She was 29 years old, and this was her sixth child. The Children's Home convinced the army to send him home He arrived home just a day after she died. They would not let him have the children, being a single man, so they stayed in the Home. The baby was given to foster parents, where she died at the age of 8 weeks from malnutrition. A year later he became ill in the Spanish Influenza epidemic. He died, and was buried in the military cemetary in Winnipeg.

His funeral was on Nov. 11, 1918, at 11 am in the morning. Remembrance Day for me will always make me think of him and his sacrifice. Even though he did not die in the war, he paid a high price to serve his country.

We should remember all veterans, whatever war, and especially the young men who are carrying on the tradition of service to this day.

 

[mrj]

Thanks for posting that poem, Mrs. G.

It brings back memories I'm not really proud of, when I had to memorize and recite it when my paternal grandmother was among the Gold Star Mothers honored in my hometown when I was maybe 6 years old. It brought on the first of many little panic attacks when faced with a public 'performance' of any sort. I got through the poem, but spent the next couple of days vomiting and having nightmares......and did the same all through school years. Not fun!

The poem is much more meaningful now that I can understand it. I had two uncles who served. One was a pilot who went down with his plane in the Pacific and is honored at Pearl Harbor, the other served in the Philipines and was pretty badly traumatized, to the point of lifelong battles with alcohol.

My ancestors have fought and died in every war this country has fought, from what our family history shows.

It would be so wonderful if there truly could be a "war to end all wars" and still keep our freedoms so dearly won.

I appreciate more than I have words to tell, and humbly thank them for, the sacrifices that all war veterans have made to secure the freedoms of our nation and many other countries as well.

mrj