Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: A Pittance of Time, Act of Remembrance, Death, For the Fallen, In Flanders Fields, John McCrae, Laurence Binyon, love, November 11, Peace, Poppy Campaign, Remembrance, Remembrance Day, Royal Canadian Legion, Sacrifice, Soldiers, Terry Kelly, they Shall Not Grow Old, War, We Will Remember Them
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
(Excerpt from For The Fallen, Laurence Binyon (1869-1943). Read the rest of Binyon’s famous piece here.)
Please take a few minutes to watch this touching video by Canadian performer, Terry Kelly. The true story behind the song (with link) follows the video.
A Pittance of Time – The Real Story
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.
More:
Background
Royal Canadian Legion
Answers on the Poppy Campaign
The Story of John McCrae
The Making of “In Flanders Fields”
Other Prose & Poetry
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Very Moving Fracas….a wonderful tribute!! I being the mother-in-law of a soldier in Iraq…..always remember every single day!! God Bless!!
Comment by shinade November 11, 2007 @ 7:15 AMHugs to shinade… and your daughter and son in law.
Comment by linda November 11, 2007 @ 3:50 PMBeautiful entry Fracas.
Comment by Hazel November 11, 2007 @ 8:56 PMhi fracas! nice! i likeeeeeee!!!
yayyyyy for fracas!!! *jumping up high like a cheerleader just for fracas! oh, and fell on the butt!* :(
Comment by baby November 12, 2007 @ 5:34 PMI have just listened to that wonderful tribute to all The Men Boys and Girls that have served and those who still are, I went to my town centre (south London UK) to the remembrance day service. At the moment of 11am the traffic was stopped the wind died down and for the 2 minutes the sun came out…it brought tears to my eyes and thoughts for all the soldiers out there trying to make our world a safer place to belong to. Thank you fracas for that.(ps I am new and in the process of building my blog! I think yours is full of joy)
Comment by boat tart November 14, 2007 @ 7:59 AMUmm.. what exactly is it that you don’t agree with? Normally when one finds a comment that doesn’t really jive with the post, it turns out to be an attempt to link to some commercial site. In other words… spam that got missed by the spam filter.
Yours doesn’t have a link to somewhere so I’m puzzled. I guess I should log in and check it out further.
Comment by fracas December 15, 2007 @ 10:41 AMVery touching, a lovely tribute to the heroese past and present.
Comment by Mary October 23, 2008 @ 8:16 PM