11/11/11 Message to our Veterans

[Sour Kraut]

To our Veterans:

Thank you…..thank you for your service and your sacrifice.
May God bless our Veterans living and deceased.
And may God bless the families who have shared so much for our country.

 

[MD_Willington]

Most of us posters from outside the US know this day as Armistice or Remembrance Day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_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.