It's Remembrance Day
Nov. 11th, 2008 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electricland"They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
I have always heard this quoted, but not been sure what it's from. Apparently it was written by Laurence Binyon. I prefer it (heresy!) to In Flanders Fields, lovely as it is and choked up as it makes me. However you feel about taking up the dead's quarrel with the foe, though, today we remember.
There is just one living Canadian veteran of the First World War, now.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
I have always heard this quoted, but not been sure what it's from. Apparently it was written by Laurence Binyon. I prefer it (heresy!) to In Flanders Fields, lovely as it is and choked up as it makes me. However you feel about taking up the dead's quarrel with the foe, though, today we remember.
There is just one living Canadian veteran of the First World War, now.
