Happy Veterans Day/Remembrance Day!

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Ninety-five years ago today, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in the year 1918 the guns all across the Western Front fell silent. The Armistice which ended World War 1, which brought about much celebration in all the Allied nations. Armistice Day, which was the original holiday is now Veterans Day in the United States and Remembrance Day in the United Kingdom and throughout the Commonwealth, France is the only nation that still observes the end on WW1 as Armistice Day. So a salute to the veterans past and present and never forget the sacrifices they made to keep the world free, lest we forget.

In Flanders Fields
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.
By, Lt. Col John McCrae