Today is Remembrance Sunday here in the UK (I guess it's the equivalent of Veterans Day in the States). It's held on the Sunday before (or on) the 11th November every year and it is a time to remember all those who made the ultimate sacrifice during the WWI & WWII and more recent conflicts.
Each Remembrance Sunday is marked by the wearing of red poppies and at services throughout the UK, this poem will be read out:
They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
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.
Ode of Remembrance from the poem For The Fallen written by Laurence Binyon in 1914
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Photo mask - Joanne Brisboise, 5x7 Vol.1
