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Never Forget

I Will Never Forget, though sometimes wish I could.
I Will Never Forgive, although I know I should.

I fear we've let them down, and yet, I hope we haven't.
I hope we've all learned the lesson,
still I know the class has only begun.

An accounting has come due at the feast we have been given.
I know the bill has been prepared, for the liberty we have taken.

And while each may argue the cost of our freedoms;
All now know the high price that's been paid.

I Will Never Forget.

Frank Martin

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing 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.

John McCrae

Posted @ September 11, 2004 12:29 AM | History file