“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.” ~ Robert Laurence Binyon
The “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918.
This date in many allied nations is known as Remembrance Day and Veterans Day. It marks the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France.
This week I visited a cemetery where there are two small areas of Commonwealth war graves.
Walking amongst the graves and reading the inscriptions on the headstones was a moving experience. The young men, the occupants of many of these commonwealth graves, were simply boys, innocents, the neophytes in a war. Boys, whose lives were fated to be temporary, souls on loan to the mothers who bore them and eventually mourned them, young men who were destined to be buried in a country so very far from home.
We will remember them.
© Sue W-nansfarm.net 2017
In response to the word challenge Neophyte and linked to the photo challenge Temporary
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This is AWESOME. *salute* to all who have and continue to serve!!!
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Thank you so much 🙂
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A beautiful tribute Sue, far too many young lives were lost…♡♡
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Ivor, thank you and I agree. Such a shame that almost a 100 years later young lives continue to be lost
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Yes, so very tragic, us humans are shameful creatures. ….
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Yes we are and in so many ways
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I think our writings hopefully bring some compassion and reality back into ours and others lives. ♡♡
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Great post and memorial to the fallen of war Susan. Thank you for sharing. 🙂
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Thank you for saying Gerry 🙂
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Nice 😊
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Thank you
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Beautiful wording, and a perfect post for the prompt.
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Thank you Margo, those comments are appreciated 🙂
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So sad that the message brought forward by the annual remembrance is not taken completely to heart: wars are exercises in futility. The Binyon quote, though, shows how beauty can be brought out of the greatest of horrors …
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Beautifully said, thank you
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