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It's Armistice/Veterans day.

Lest we forget.

Thank you.

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Quote: Skoob1999

It's Armistice/Veterans day.

Lest we forget.

Thank you.

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Here in Holland and Germany the carnaval season begins, HELAU!

Stopped everything for the two minutes - quite a few here didn't bother though.

What can you do?

Small town parade here. Seems the small towns an villages remember vets more respectfully.

-Foot-soldier 1966-68.

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.

You all probably know the first few lines by heart, but when I read it through, the message again touched my heart. That's what we all, as writers, aspire to.

Charpa

We had a lovely Rememberance Day Service. In a small village...in a field...next to our school where there is a small 'memorial'(?) with all the names of the 'fallen' from the farming area where I work. Not a long list...but men who gave their lives. Children from each Grade laid wreaths they had made and some read poems etc. Very moving.

Bright blue sky and sunshine after cold days and frost..

Lady G.