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.
In Flanders Fields 
          -John McCrae

Today we remember the veterans who fought for our freedom.  We remember the young men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice, their life. We remember the families that should have been but never were. Throughout the country people dawned their poppies, for many of us, we think of loved ones who fought or are fighting for freedom.  for two minutes today the whole country, with heads bowed respectfully, stopped, reflected, cried in silence at 11:00.  As if the whole country held its breath and hundreds of trumpets played in unison, The Last Post.  

Whether we honor those who died in November or we stand, remove our cap and clap for the veterans in July, Lest We Forget.