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The veterans
John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields"
"In Flanders Fields the poppies grow,
Between the crosses, row on row!"
"Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from falling hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow--In Flanders Fields!"
"In Flanders Fields the poppies grow,
Between the crosses, row on row!"
"Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from falling hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow--In Flanders Fields!"
Like they're peeping through the poppies to see if anybody cares or loves them anymore. There are just miles and miles of them there in Flanders--huge, huge graveyards! It's pitiful to think of how many boys were killed--thousands upon thousands died on that front!
When you're supposed to remember the veterans, those who died in the wars. They're all losers in a war: They lose their boys, they lose their lives, they lose their governments, countries and colonies and economies. They all lose everything. They all lose. Nobody won anything, you know?
They won their freedom at least, but what freedom?--Freedom to fight another war?--That's what happened! Freedom to fight another war, to lose more lives, kill more boys, lose more countries and lose more colonies and bankrupt their economies, so there's less freedom today than there was then. They didn't gain anything at all.
Like that other old favorite song of World War II
"There'll be blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow when the world is free!
There'll be love and laughter and peace ever after--
Tomorrow when the world is free!"
Ted Rudow III, MA
When you're supposed to remember the veterans, those who died in the wars. They're all losers in a war: They lose their boys, they lose their lives, they lose their governments, countries and colonies and economies. They all lose everything. They all lose. Nobody won anything, you know?
They won their freedom at least, but what freedom?--Freedom to fight another war?--That's what happened! Freedom to fight another war, to lose more lives, kill more boys, lose more countries and lose more colonies and bankrupt their economies, so there's less freedom today than there was then. They didn't gain anything at all.
Like that other old favorite song of World War II
"There'll be blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow when the world is free!
There'll be love and laughter and peace ever after--
Tomorrow when the world is free!"
Ted Rudow III, MA
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