User:Melicans/Remembrance

"I died in Hell - they called it Passchendaele" - Siegfried Sassoon "Every intelligent person in the world knew that disaster was impending and knew no way to avoid it" - H. G. Wells The International Red Cross has been involved in over 120 armed conflicts since the "war to end all wars". The last soldier to be killed in World War I was Canadian Private George Lawrence Price; he died two minutes before a ceasefire effectively ended the war on 11 November 1918.  Lest we 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. - Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 - 1918)