To this day the American Legion sells paper poppies on Memorial Day. My sister has a small stand of them at her house; S. and I will be doing the same once we get a house.
As the tears well up, I recall "the War to end all wars" that was WWI...
THESE, in the day when heaven was falling The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling, And took their wages, and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and earth's foundations stay; What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay. A.E. Housman
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As the tears well up, I recall "the War to end all wars" that was WWI...
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The hour when earth's foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling,
And took their wages, and are dead.
Their shoulders held the sky suspended;
They stood, and earth's foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended,
And saved the sum of things for pay.
A.E. Housman
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