{"id":28,"date":"2008-11-11T12:11:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T20:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/?p=28"},"modified":"2017-09-27T15:33:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T22:33:14","slug":"remembrance-day-and-the-poppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance Day and the Poppy"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Flanders Fields<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
\nBetween the crosses, row on row
\nThat mark our place; and in the sky
\nThe larks, still bravely singing, fly
\nScarce heard amid the guns below.<\/p>\n

We are the Dead. Short days ago
\nWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
\nLoved and were loved, and now we lie
\nIn Flanders fields.<\/p>\n

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
\nTo you from failing hands we throw
\nThe torch; be yours to hold it high.
\nIf ye break faith with us who die
\nWe shall not sleep, though poppies grow
\nIn Flanders fields.<\/p>\n

— John McCrae (1872 – 1918)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The American Moira Michael from Georgia, was the first person to wear a poppy in remembrance. In reply to McCrae’s poem, she wrote a poem entitled ‘We shall keep the faith’ which includes the lines:<\/p>\n

And now the Torch and Poppy Red
\nWe wear in honor of our dead.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many two-minute silences are followed by a lone bugler playing The Last Post<\/em>, reminiscent of times of war when trumpets were as much a part of battle as bayonets. A poem called ‘For the Fallen’ is often read aloud on the occasion; the most famous stanza of which reads:<\/p>\n

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
\nAge shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
\nAt the going down of the sun and in the morning
\nWe will remember them. <\/em><\/p>\n

Fourth stanza of ‘For the Fallen’ by Laurence Binyon (1869 – 1943)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

Edi Alvarez, CFP\u00ae
\n<\/sup>BS, BEd, MS<\/p>\n

www.aikapa.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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