Make sure to remember that November the 11th is Remembrance Day. The Library Destiny Home Page has a copy of John McCrae’s battle field poem, ”In Flanders Field”. The library has pulled many of its books on and about war as part of this Remembrance, lest we forget.
In Flanders Field – Remembrance Day
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.
Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915 during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium by John McCrae
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