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08-11-2008 05:23 AM |
First a poem
Quote:
We Shall Keep the Faith
by Moina Michael, November 1918
Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields, Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw and holding high, we keep the Faith with All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red that grows on fields where valour led; It seems to signal to the skies that blood of heroes never dies, but lends a lustre to the red of the flower that blooms above the dead in Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red we wear in honour of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught; we'll teach the lesson that ye wrought in Flanders Fields.
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Officially at our church we do not have a remembrance service :sad:
Something to do with being one of those churches that requires a "Thus saith the Lord" from the New Testament before it gets put in. When I was on duty during a remembrance day, I would make reference to it if I could and nobody objected.
I do buy and wear a poppy though |
