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A reminder of the price paid for our freedom
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from the Hull Daily Mail/East Riding Mail on Saturday, October 11
A timely reminder from Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrea, MD, Canadian Army, 1872-1918, that on November 11 we shall commemorate Armistice Day. It is a reminder that this beloved nation of ours gave its valued young in the battle to ensure democracy would live on. It is presented particularly to young people as a reminder that their forebears’ efforts ensured they themselves could live today.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow,
Between the courses, row on row,
That mark our places, 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 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.
Bert Greaves, Lea Close, Leven.
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