Our Veterans...
11/13/2003 11:53 p.m.
I was reading an article about a group of veteran's who place a special wreath on the war memorials at midnight on rememberance day...It included the silent toast they say at the dinner before they go and place the wreath...I thought I would p[ost it to in a way honour what they're doing and what they have done...


Our surging battle lines must take their toll,
And cenotaphs are reared, and flowers are spread
Across the meadow and behind the knoll
O'er all those hallowed gardens of the dead.
Dead! Not to us, tho' all the world forget
That hideous travail of a nation's birth!
Your living memory is with us yet
Despite far scattered mounds of sacred earth,
And those of us - so few -who still remain
Cherish our scars - sore guerdon of the years
And, in remembering, almost bless our pain
That tells of tribute paid in blood and tears
Andso, to you, we raise this silent glass -
And pledge ourselves to keep your memory bright.
And pray we too, when comes our time to pass
May look with feraless eyes into the night.
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