Re: Memorial Day

Posted by Dave Kenney On 2011/5/30 14:12:29

In Canada we honour our veterans on November 11 which you all are aware is the day the guns fell silent during World War 1. I found it very interesting to learn from reading Wikipedia that the last Monday of May date originated in Charleston South Carolina by freed slaves to remember the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War. Are you familiar with the poem Ode of Remembrance? We repeat it at every meeting of my local Legion branch and also at every Remembrance Day service. It seems appropriate to repeat it here.

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them." Robert Laurence Binyon

May God Bless them all and especially to those serving in far off lands to protect our freedoms.