The girls will be observing the minute silence at school and making poppy wreaths today.
There is 'hope' for peace through our children
On a side note: 10 years ago today my wonderful husband proposed to me... It was a suprise (to him and me) as we had no ring.. so there is the unofficial engagement and the official one a few weeks later :) The Remembrance Day celebrations help us remember the date ;) The engagement had nothing to do with Remembrance day.. we probably didnt even know it was... but now I can see that life goes on and we can make future generations who will hopefully never engage in the horrors of war.
That's so funny about your engagement! Your daughter has such pretty freckles. I love all your Christmas ideas so far - because they're personal. (esp the blockheads!).
ReplyDeleteBobbie, did you know poppies are significant on rememberance day because of the poem In Flanders Filds - inspired by the ability of poppies to flourish despite everything else being destroyed during the war:
ReplyDeleteIn 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.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
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.