On Remembrance Sunday 2009 (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Sunday, November 08, 2009, 07:21 (5286 days ago) @ admin

When you go home tell them of us and say -
For your tomorrow we gave our today

this year you can plant a virtual poppy :-
http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/remembrance/we-will-remember-them/plant-a-virtual-poppy...

Cherish me not with regretful thought,
Of what might have been for you and me.
Remember me not with tears and sighs,
Like the poppies, I did not die.
My body bled a blood as red as any poppy that ever grew,
And from this mortal shell a soul was shed,
And on your loving thoughts it fed,
And bloomed again, as poppies will
Upon that field, where so much blood was spilled.
Remember me with love and joy,
For I am but still the boy you knew.
I lie not unknown, where the poppies grew,
I live now, even as you.

© Elizabeth Anderson 1958

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>