Monday, May 25, 2009

Memorial Day

I don't want to say "Happy Memorial Day" because that seems somehow incongruous. Memorial Day is not a happy occasion. So instead I will leave you with this, an excerpt from Laurence Binyon's poem For the Fallen that adorns war memorials all over the world;

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.


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