Monday, May 29, 2006
Memorial Day

[1736 - Patrick Henry, patriot, born in Studley, Virginia]

[1790 - Rhode Island joins United States as Number 13]

[1848 - Wisconsin is 30th state admitted to the Union]

[1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th U.S. President, born in Brookline, Massachusetts]

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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