SUE ALLEN SIMPLY CRAFT: WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

Monday, 11 November 2019

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM - LEST WE FORGET

Having been born and raised in England (I left when I was 13) , the 11th November, has been a very significant day each year.

After four years of war at 11 am on 11 November 1918 the guns on the Western Front fell silent.

Today we commemorate 101 years since this day has gained special significance. The moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front became universally associated with the remembrance of those who had died in the war.

I will be attending a the Remembrance Service at the Cenotaph in Sydney tomorrow, remembering the fallen and also my Dad who served in the British Army in Burma alongside the amazing Gerkha's, thankfully he came home.

I received a surprise "Because I can Present" the other day, a friend sent me a very special poppy to wear tomorrow which I will do with pride.

As I said in an earlier blog, I'm not really into poetry but I do have a few favourites and this is one of them

IN FLANDERS FIELD

BY JOHN MCCRAE

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.

LEST WE FORGET

This is the card i will be sending to say Thank You, I hope she like it.

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Take care, talk soon

Sue x

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