REMEMBRANCE DAY CANADA AND VETERANS DAY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The Veteran
It is the Veteran, not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the Veteran, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Veteran, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Veteran, not the campus organizer, who has given us freedom to assemble.
It is the Veteran, not the politician, who has given us the right to vote.
It is the Veteran, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the Veteran who salutes the flag.
It is the Veteran who serves under the flag.
Eternal rest, grant them O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.
We can be proud of our men and women in the service no matter where they serve.
God Bless them all.
"They shall grow not old,
As we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them"
SIMVIATION being an aviation forum I though this would be a fitting poem for the:
11th Hour, 11th Day, 11th Month
High Flight
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
– Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Pilot Officer
Royal Canadian Air Force
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee,_Jr.
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