Please Remember

[schmenke]

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


Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, First Brigade of Canadian Field Artillery


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[airshifter]

It's good to know that some appreciate the holiday for what it was intended. Far too many forget. It never slips past me, and I've made sure to teach my daughter why such holidays exist.


And for me, the day before... today... has significance as well. It's the birthday of the United States Marine Corps.

“Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem.” Ronald Regan

[Brown, Jon Brow]

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[D-Type]

From "For the Fallen" by Lawrence Binyon"

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

[D-Type]

I've not seen this before:

Turkish Memorial to ANZAC troops

"For me, one of the most powerful things I have ever seen is the monument erected by the Turks in Gallipoli. Think of the bloodshed. Think of the tens of thousands of Turkish dead.
And then listen to the inscription to our boys and those from Commonwealth countries that fell.
“Those heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives, you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country.
Therefore rest in peace.
There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side in this country of ours.
You, the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears, your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace.
After having lost their lives on this land they become our sons as well.”

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk