Crystal8Phoenix
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- Posted: Sun, 27 May 2012 16:08:22 +0000
'We Shall Keep the Faith'
Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
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.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.
By: Moina Michael
The tradition of wearing red poppies in honor of memorial day came from Moina Michael and her poem "We Shall Keep the Faith", inspired by John McCrae’s poem 'In Flanders Fields'. Moina Michael was the first to wear and sell red poppies, donating the money to service men in need. Later a visiting Madam Guerin from France brought the tradition back to her country, the proceeds benefiting orphaned children and widows.
What other memorial day traditions do you know?
Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
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.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.
By: Moina Michael
The tradition of wearing red poppies in honor of memorial day came from Moina Michael and her poem "We Shall Keep the Faith", inspired by John McCrae’s poem 'In Flanders Fields'. Moina Michael was the first to wear and sell red poppies, donating the money to service men in need. Later a visiting Madam Guerin from France brought the tradition back to her country, the proceeds benefiting orphaned children and widows.
What other memorial day traditions do you know?