It’s something of a tradition on Stormbirds to mark Remembrance Day. This is a memorial day observed most typically in Commonwealth countries around the world to honour armed forces members who served and were lost in the line of duty. Veterans Day in the United States is also marked on this day.
One of the many ways we mark it is with a reading of In Flanders Fields. This poem was written by Canadian soldier and physician John McCrae who tended to the wounded during World War I in the poppy filled fields of Flanders, Belgium.
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.
The day is important as a way to continually remember those who have fallen and to remember both the sacrifice and why they gave it.
To put it simply: We remember.
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