PhotoNoob Loc: Innisfail, Canada

For all our Vets

catfish252

God Bless all of our fallen heroes.

DrWilk Loc: .

Thank you.

PhotoNoob Loc: Innisfail, Canada

Yes, they deserve our thanks and gratitude

PhotoNoob Loc: Innisfail, Canada

You are very welcome

Fleckjohn65 Loc: Ajax Ontario Canada

For our American friends, we in Canada, celebrate Remebrance Day on November 11 at 11:00 am. The 11th day of the 11th month at the 11th hour. Our Vets sacrificed so much so that we can live our lives as we do today. God bless them and let us never forget! We wear Poppy in their remembrance!

ole sarg Loc: south florida

One has to realize that 550,000 fell in west Flanders.

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

Beautiful, thanks for posting. God bless all in service to our country. It's heartbreaking to know there are so many homeless veterans.

Croce Loc: Earth

I was lucky, so many were not. I can never get through this poem without choking. And what we fought for has become a nation which allows those who gave life, limb, sight and mind so that we remaining could remain free. Free it seems to guarantee so many of our wounded warriors horrible health care, horrible or non existent mental care and for too, too many, poverty, destitution and hollow words from politicians. Shame on us!

Orsaemsa

Thank you!

catfish252

If you have not seen it -- This is Great Britain's memorial to those soldiers, sailors, and airmen who gave it their all during World War I. It is just a beautiful tribute. The last ceramic poppy will be set in place during their Remembrance Ceremony.



http://petapixel.com/2014/08/02/breathtaking-photos-tower-london-adorned-888246-ceramic-poppies-commemorate-wwi/

Dr TD Bennett

Thank you. We too are honouring our war dead. We're preparing here in The Land Downunder for the 100th commemoration of the Anzac Landing at Gallipoli and the successful attack by one of our WW1 submarines, HMAS AE2 on the enemy forces in the Dardanelles, albeit with the subsequent loss in action of the boat and its crew.

BTW, you knew of course that we all wear poppies this week - everyone of us who was Allied in WW1, and that the beautiful verse 'In Flanders Field' was penned by a Canadian LT/COL John McCrae. The poppy is the flower of remembrance in Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, other commonwealth countries and the US.

Born in Guelph, Ont., in 1872, McCrae began writing poetry at a young age. He was also interested in the military from an early age, and joined the Highfield Cadet Corps at 14.

He received his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1898, and about a year later went to fight alongside British and Australian troops in the Boer War in South Africa. He left the military in 1904 and focused on his private practice, while also working as a university lecturer.

When the Great War broke out in 1914, McCrae like most British Commonwealth nations immediately joined the war effort. He was first stationed in Ypres, Belgium, in an area traditionally known as Flanders where he operated a MASH field hospital, then later transferred to the No. 3 Canadian General Hospital in France where he was chief of medical services.

In 1918 McCrae fell ill, and died of pneumonia and meningitis. On the day he fell ill, he learned he had been made consulting physician to the First British Army—the first Canadian to be appointed this role.

He was buried with full military honours in Wimereux Cemetery not far from the fields of Flanders. His beloved horse Bonfire led the funeral procession, with McCrae’s riding boots stirrups reversed.
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Dr TD Bennett

Yes. I've seen it. A moving display and tribute. Let's hope Boris manages to keep it there.

- Theo.