Monday, May 26, 2008

Memorial Day

Korea 6-21-51, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment Memorial Service in the field.
Photo Credit: USAA

Memorial Day

[1799 - Alexander Pushkin, poet, novelist, born in Moscow]

[1907 - John Wayne, Academy Award-winning film star, born in Winterset, Iowa]

[1908 - Robert Morley (Adolph Milton), actor, born in Semley, Wiltshire, England]

[1913 - Actors' Equity Association organized in New York City]

[1920 - Peggy Lee (Norma Delores Egstrom), singer, born in Jamestown, North Dakota]

Never Forget

  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.

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

William's Whimsical Words:

Never forgotten.

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