the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month
was yesterday...
But we are observing Veteran's Day today here in the US.
Like last year, here's picture of new memorial to Wilfrid Owens: the old farm house where he spent the night before he died in the battle of the Sambre-Oise Canal, Nov.4, 1918, one of the last actions of the war, has been transformed into a memorial to his poetry:
article here
And two 2012 poems by Kevin Powers:
"Death, Mother and Child" and "After Leaving Maguire Veteran's Hospital for the Last Time"
But we are observing Veteran's Day today here in the US.
Like last year, here's picture of new memorial to Wilfrid Owens: the old farm house where he spent the night before he died in the battle of the Sambre-Oise Canal, Nov.4, 1918, one of the last actions of the war, has been transformed into a memorial to his poetry:
article here
And two 2012 poems by Kevin Powers:
"Death, Mother and Child" and "After Leaving Maguire Veteran's Hospital for the Last Time"