Today in countries around the world, people are taking time to pay their respects to the men and women who fought and in many cases, sacrificed their lives in the hope of preserving the freedoms we cherish, as well as forging the peace so many in the world currently live without.  As every year, there are fewer and fewer veterans around to remind of us what it was like, of what they endured so long ago so we could live in peace, I wanted to create a small tribute to pay my respects to these brave men and women.

To that end, I want to share my reading of the poem Canadian physician John McRae wrote on the battlefield during World War I called “In Flanders Field”.  This was a poem we were taught in school to recite, often for the community’s veterans who would come to participate in our school’s Remembrance Day ceremonies.  I now want to share it with everyone here on my blog, so that we can remember what these soldiers went through all those years ago and sadly, are still enduring today. Click here to continue reading »”In Flanders Field – A Tribute for Remembrance Day”