Remembrance day UK

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Gti 10 hours ago

To all fellow servicemen / women past present and future across the globe. Those who have made the ultimate sacrifice..we will remember them

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.
⸸Ꭷ'ςลֆɛʏ⛧ 10 hours ago

Gti wrote:
To all fellow servicemen / women past present and future across the globe. Those who have made the ultimate sacrifice..we will remember them

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.

🫡🫡
Gti 8 hours ago

𝖀𝖌𝖑𝖞💔𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖛𝖎𝖈𝖙 wrote:
That is a good poem. Not bothered to Google but did you write that?

No this is a famous poem called In Flanders fields. Written by John McCrae in 1915
Gti 8 hours ago

If you wanted to read more about it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields
༺ ᗪᗰᒪ ༻ 4 hours ago

Well how do you do young Willie McBride?
do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside
and rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun
I've been walkin' all day and I'm nearly done
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
when you joined the great fallen of 1916
Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
Willie McBride was it slow and obscene

And the beautiful wife or the sweetheart for life
in some faithful heart are you forever enshrined
and although you died back in 1916
in that faithful heart are you forever nineteen?
or are you a stranger without even a name
enshrined forever behind a glass pane
in an ould photograph torn tattered and stained,
fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?
༺ ᗪᗰᒪ ༻ 4 hours ago

Now the sun shines down on the green fields of France
a warm summer wind makes the red poppys dance
The trences have vanished under the plows,
there's no gas no barbed wire, there's no guns firing now
but here in this graveyard it's still No Man's land,
the countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
for man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
to a whole generation that was butchered and damned

Now Willie McBride I can't help wonder why
Do those who lie here do they know why they died
Did they really believe when they answered the call
did they really believe that this war would end wars
Forever this song of suffering and shame
the killing the dying was all done in vain
for young Willie McBride it's all happened again,
and again, and again, and again and again
⸸Ꭷ'ςลֆɛʏ⛧ 4 hours ago

Song: I am a poor wayfaring stranger

Artist: Joe slovick

I am a poor wayfaring stranger
I'm travellin' through this world of woe
Yet there's no sickness, toil, nor danger
In that bright land to which I go
I'm going there to see my Father
I'm going there, no more to roam
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home
I know dark clouds will gather 'round me
I know my way is rough and steep
But golden fields lie just before me
Where God's redeemed shall ever sleep
I'm going home to see my mother
And all my loved ones who've gone on
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home

-- give the song a listen too. I say it's extremely meaningful especially in regards to the great wars
𝖀𝖌𝖑𝖞💔𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖛𝖎𝖈𝖙 3 hours ago

⸸Ꭷ'ςลֆɛʏ⛧ wrote:
Song: I am a poor wayfaring stranger

Artist: Joe slovick

I am a poor wayfaring stranger
I'm travellin' through this world of woe
Yet there's no sickness, toil, nor danger
In that bright land to which I go
I'm going there to see my Father
I'm going there, no more to roam
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home
I know dark clouds will gather 'round me
I know my way is rough and steep
But golden fields lie just before me
Where God's redeemed shall ever sleep
I'm going home to see my mother
And all my loved ones who've gone on
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home

-- give the song a listen too. I say it's extremely meaningful especially in regards to the great wars

I think they sang that in 1917
༦ᵑɴͦᴇͫxͣxͩ༤ 2 hours ago

𝖀𝖌𝖑𝖞💔𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖛𝖎𝖈𝖙 wrote:
⸸Ꭷ'ςลֆɛʏ⛧ wrote:
Song: I am a poor wayfaring stranger

Artist: Joe slovick

I am a poor wayfaring stranger
I'm travellin' through this world of woe
Yet there's no sickness, toil, nor danger
In that bright land to which I go
I'm going there to see my Father
I'm going there, no more to roam
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home
I know dark clouds will gather 'round me
I know my way is rough and steep
But golden fields lie just before me
Where God's redeemed shall ever sleep
I'm going home to see my mother
And all my loved ones who've gone on
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home

-- give the song a listen too. I say it's extremely meaningful especially in regards to the great wars

I think they sang that in 1917
They did🫶🏼