Remembrance Day
More than 1,500,000 Canadians have served overseas in wars we were an official part of. More than 100,000 never came back -- their lives taken at perhaps the darkest hour, when there was no hope left -- or some were just cheated of life when victory was close at hand. Many others served in peace time duties, to help bring calm in troubled countries -- sadly, many of those gave their lives to anger and hate -- enduring pain, agony, bullets and bombs for us. Today, let us remember them -- their sacrifice allows us to continue live in peace and stability, and have made Canada such a welcoming haven for many fleeing hopelessness, dispair and violence. They were -- are -- our heroes -- the real heroes -- because they never came back.
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.
- Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army.
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.
- Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army.
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