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Posted by corafree on November 10, 2006, at 10:41:59
I've got bronchitis and it's not getting any better.
Anyway, prob' be offline a few days.
Hope lots of 3-day weekends.(?)
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Posted by Phillipa on November 10, 2006, at 20:06:54
In reply to 2 Sick 2 Babble, but 'Happy Veteran's Day'!, posted by corafree on November 10, 2006, at 10:41:59
Is it that bad. So sorry. And is Veterans Day Monday? Love Phillipa
Posted by yxibow on November 12, 2006, at 4:09:24
In reply to Re: 2 Sick 2 Babble, but 'Happy Veteran's Day'! » corafree, posted by Phillipa on November 10, 2006, at 20:06:54
> Is it that bad. So sorry. And is Veterans Day Monday? Love Phillipa
Veterans Day this year falls on Saturday. It refers to the signing of the Armistice on the 11th hour of the 11th day of 11th month (November), 1918, WWI. 11:11, 11/11/1918. It (5 U.S.C. 6103) is a Federal Holiday on Friday if it falls on Saturday but always observed on Saturday, and if it is Sunday, falls on Monday.
Other parts of the world, especially Canada and Great Britain and the Commonwealth, refer to it as Remembrance Day and have much more detail to the day, with even youth wearing poppies. I was in Vancouver on a Friday after college and the poppy was quite visible, which has a significance to Canadian military physician John McCrae's (who perished in WWI due to disease) poem "In Flanders Fields," referring to the poppies that bloomed across some of the worst battlegrounds. (Wikipedia)
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.-- Jay
Posted by corafree on November 12, 2006, at 12:52:59
In reply to Veterans and Remembrance Day. » Phillipa, posted by yxibow on November 12, 2006, at 4:09:24
Wow(?) ... What an inspirational poem! Especially last couple sentences. I think it means 'carry on for those of us who can't'.
Tks for the education Jay
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