Fairhope, Alabama
VETERANS DAY 2015
Three thousand ceramic poppies constructed by eastern shore artists will start appearing on the bluff Tuesday in preparation for the annual memorial service there on Wednesday at 4:45 PM.
(The poppies are for sale though the ESAC: proceeds go to veterans)
November 11th marks the day in 1918 WWI ended -- and has been known as Remembrance, Poppy, or Armistice Day in other countries.
Visitors got a sneak-peek during Art Walk last Friday.
The poppy theme refers to a famous poem written by a soldier in WWI:
"In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it. "In Flanders Fields" was first published on December 8 of that year in the London-based magazine Punch.
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.
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.
VETERANS DAY 2015
Three thousand ceramic poppies constructed by eastern shore artists will start appearing on the bluff Tuesday in preparation for the annual memorial service there on Wednesday at 4:45 PM.
(The poppies are for sale though the ESAC: proceeds go to veterans)
November 11th marks the day in 1918 WWI ended -- and has been known as Remembrance, Poppy, or Armistice Day in other countries.
Visitors got a sneak-peek during Art Walk last Friday.
The poppy theme refers to a famous poem written by a soldier in WWI:
"In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it. "In Flanders Fields" was first published on December 8 of that year in the London-based magazine Punch.
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.
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