November 11, 2012

Today is Veteran's Day in the United States.  It is also known as Armistice Day, the day that hostilities ended during World War I and it is also General Patton's birthday.  In Great Britain they are celebrating Remembrance Day or Poppy Day.  This is the first Veteran's Day that there are no more veterans left from World War I.  I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have served and continue to serve this country to keep us safe and protected.  And I leave you with this....

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.