Mythos & Marginalia

2015 – 2025: a decade of days


Remember

lest

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

                              -John McCrae

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

They fought for all which
we take for granted.
Freedom.

November 11 is Remembrance Day
Remember

 


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