In case you are trying to remember the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day, I’m including this from my 2015 Veterans Day blog post which quoted an email from a friend: “Veterans Day is often confused with Memorial Day (the fourth Monday in May), which honors American service members who died in service to their country or as a result of injuries incurred during battle. Veterans Day pays tribute to all American veterans, living or dead.”
‘In Flanders Fields’
by John McCrae, May 3, 1915. “Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem “In Flanders Fields” during World War I.”
“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.”
Memorial Day Flags on Parade 1991 FDC Attribution & Thank you to the following who are referenced today
Attribution for the photo shown above from my AnchoredScraps.com 2015, and 2016 Memorial Day blog posts. The image by Tijl Vercaemer from Gent, Flanders #Belgium) (In Flanders Fields the poppies blow (3/3#) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
Image shown upper left, Etsy PostalGems, Artcraft First Day Cover, First Day Cover – 1991 Memorial Day Flags on Parade 29 cent Regular issue.
Mystic Stamp Company, excerpt, #2531 – 1991 29c Flags on Parade stamp.
AnchoredScraps.com daily blog posts: excerpt Veterans Day – November 11, 2015; Smithsonian National Postal Museum World War I Letters Exhibit, April 08, 2017; by Helen Rittersporn.
