11/11/11: We Remember

Stars and Stripes dance in the ocean breeze on Glades Rd.

On this Veteran’s Day we remember all those who served and kept us safe.  On this day we give thanks to many men and women who have risked their lives.  Many who breathed their last breaths for our freedom and for all their sacrifice I am grateful.

Bless our troops and bring them home safe!

Today, I’d like to share with you one of my favorite poems:

IN FLANDERS FIELDS POEM
By Lieutenant Colonel 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


Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915 
during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium