Memorial Day 2015 Edited 27 May 2018
According to The Polynational War Memorial since 1900 there have been 265 wars around the world. There are approximately sixty-two armed conflicts currently underway around the globe. Nearly every nation has felt the sting of armed conflict, apartheid, slavery, forced exile, genocide, and injustice.
Causes notwithstanding, remembering our nations war dead is our just duty.
- When John McCrae in Flanders penned
Had hoped that field of patriots dead
Would be that beacon, the banner red
Could be that last, that field of dead
That soldiers bled would be the last
To perish from the canons blast
The war that ended all wars more
That bloodied field, and moor, and shore
But greed and avarice and bigots breed
Then did fear and hatred seed
Another world at bloody war
That fowled field and moor and shore
Then those patriots of every creed
Would bleed and die for another’s need
In hopes again that nevermore
Would trouble field and moor and shore
The guns fell silent a short time there
When atomic power did fill the air
But “quiets time” was not long lived
When fear and hatred again survived
My faith is strong, my nation great
Again it fostered greed and hate
It’s mine the oceans, sea, wind and land
My god has granted me this stand
From Golan to Sahara’s sand
From New York to the Silver Strand
From Asia’s crown to Ireland
My god has granted me this stand
It gives me right, it gives me cause
To raise up arms and prove my laws
Again wage war, must take a stand
Protect us all, our motherland
Perhaps again let this one more
Be the war to end all war
But keep in heart and mind and soul
Our hero’s Sleep
Or bodies bent and broken keep
The hope the prayer that nevermore
Will bloody field or moor or shore.
Pleas also visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields

