100 Year Anniversary (Nov 11) of the end of WW1

EVillageProwler

It’s November 11 already in Europe. Please post a coin from WW1 or one depicting WW1. I have none, so I offer this poem instead:

In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE

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.

1960NYGiants

Acquired this piece from Lord Marcovan

HoledandCreative

TomB

harasha

bigmarty58

EVillageProwler

Thanks for the responses so far.

@1960NYGiants,

I wonder if Pvt. Shaver had any siblings or cousins who were close to their Aunt Bertha who had descendants. Thinking of him saddens me greatly -- not because he was distinctive, but that we can put a name (and some details of his shortened life) to the unpleasantness of war.

EVP

Namvet69

Thanks for the prose. All war is bad. Imagine......Peace Roy