Monday, May 28, 2007

Memorial Day

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

Memorial Day

[1888 - Jim Thorpe, athlete, born near Prague in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma]

[1908 - Ian Fleming, author, born in London]

[1937 - San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge opens to vehicles]

[1957 - National League owners vote to allow Brooklyn Dodgers move to Southern California]

[1982 - The Orient Express, classic train, reborn]

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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