Friday, May 24, 2013

Small Town America: Memorial Day


We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.
 

 
excerpt from We Shall Keep the Faith, Moina Michael, November 1918