Re: 11 November

["Spirit One Email" <laurel@spiritone.com>]

Thanks Sinclair,
    I remember that my mother could quote this poem that she learned in
school.  It is sad and we shouldn't forget.  She lost a dear cousin in
France.
Laurel


----- Original Message -----
From: Privateers <Privateers@privateers.org>
To: <sinclair@mids.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: 11 November


> Tomorrow is Remembrance Day
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> Lest We Forget
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> On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month the guns
went
> silent......
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> Our thoughts and prayers are needed for those who went before us and in
> whose glories and sins we live in the pale reflection of.
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> Sinclair
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> A Canadian Doctor Major John McCrea wrote this poem after the battle of
> Ypres
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> In Flanders Fields
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> "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, saw dawn, felt sunset glow,
> Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
> In Flanders fields.
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> Take up your 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. "
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