Remembrance Day in Canada: The larks, still bravely singing, fly - Scarce heard amid the guns below.

[Billy Burnett]

In Flanders Fields
By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

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.

[RandomThoughts]

1. I figure my foe includes all that have gotten ill gotten gain from following instructions of my foe.

It is how the proper correction for beer and travel money and many experiences equates back into the worldly things where material things are.

Although I hold no ill will against them, hence why it does not actually matter, while it does, but for a point of justice, or what should be it is an easy to argue point.

[SidDithers]

2. K&R...nt

Sid

[bemildred]

3. K&R for the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

-- Macbeth

[Billy Burnett]

4. Thanks, bemildred. A kick for that.

:dem:

[bemildred]

6. My Dad fought at Vimy ridge.

Almost lost a leg, had a limp all his life. He is buried at the veterans cemetary on Craigflower Road in Victoria. Don't get me started.
:hi:

[hedgehog]

5. And a word for the Aussies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPFjToKuZQM

[AnnieBW]

8. I was in Oz two years ago

during the 90th anniversary. It was quite moving. More so than in the U.S., where we tend to forget about WWI.

[hedgehog]

9. Someone once said that two modern nations were born

at Gallipolli; Turkey and Australia.

[DavidDvorkin]

7. A popular poem on this date, but it's a pro-war poem.