Armistace Day/ Remembrance Day

Today is the day we remember all the heroic soldiers that died in the trauma of the first and second world war. We also remember all the families who have lost loved ones to war.

Here is the famous In Flanders Field poem written by John McCrae that helps us remember what it was like:

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.