{"id":8730,"date":"2021-11-07T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8730"},"modified":"2021-11-07T22:41:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T03:41:55","slug":"lest-we-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8730","title":{"rendered":"Lest we forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Poignant quotes and verse, lest we forget\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/poppies-field-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"poppies-field\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/poppies-field-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/poppies-field-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/poppies-field-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/poppies-field-900x563.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/poppies-field-450x281.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them. &#8211; Czeslaw Milosz, The Issa Valley<\/li>\n<li>The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children. \u2013 William Havard<\/li>\n<li>We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart. \u2013 Albert Einstein<\/li>\n<li>When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? &#8211; George Canning, The Pilot that weathered the Storm<\/li>\n<li>And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier&#8217;s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. \u2013 Joseph Drake<\/li>\n<li>When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today. &#8211; John Maxwell Edmonds<\/li>\n<li>The dead soldier&#8217;s silence sings our national anthem. \u2013 Aaron Kilbourn<\/li>\n<li>They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. \u2013 Henry Ward Beecher<\/li>\n<li>To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. \u2013 Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground<\/li>\n<li>I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, \u2018Mother, what was war?\u2019 -Eve Merriam<\/li>\n<li>In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. \u2013 Jose Narosky<\/li>\n<li>For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. \u2013 William Penn<\/li>\n<li>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. &#8211; Laurence Binyon, For The Fallen<\/li>\n<li>In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. \u2013 American General Douglas MacArthur<\/li>\n<li>And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can. \u2013 Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/li>\n<li>Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes. \u2013 Benjamin Disraeli<\/li>\n<li>Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. \u2013 Michel de Montaigne<\/li>\n<li>Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. &#8211; Billy Graham<\/li>\n<li>The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. &#8211; Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit<\/li>\n<li>Heroism &#8230; is endurance for one moment more. \u2013 George F. Kennan<\/li>\n<li>The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. &#8211; Benjamin Disraeli<\/li>\n<li>Give me American supply lines, British planes, German officers and Canadian troops, and I can take over the world. &#8211; German Nazi General Erwin \u201cThe Fox\u201d Rommel<\/li>\n<li>Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. &#8211; William Shakespeare, All&#8217;s Well That Ends Well<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong> Remembrance Verses<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead!<br \/>\nLaurels and roses on their graves to-day,<br \/>\nLilies and laurels over them we lay,<br \/>\nAnd violets o&#8217;er each unforgotten head.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Richard Hovey<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,<br \/>\nBy all their country&#8217;s wishes blest!<br \/>\nWhen Spring, with dewy fingers cold,<br \/>\nReturns to deck their hallow&#8217;d mould,<br \/>\nShe there shall dress a sweeter sod<br \/>\nThan Fancy&#8217;s feet have ever trod.<br \/>\nBy fairy hands their knell is rung,<br \/>\nThere Honour comes, a pilgrim gray,<br \/>\nTo bless the turf that wraps their clay;<br \/>\nAnd Freedom shall awhile repair,<br \/>\nTo dwell, a weeping hermit, there.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; William Collins<\/em><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Cover them over with beautiful flowers,<br \/>\nDeck them with garlands, those brothers of ours,<br \/>\nLying so silent by night and by day<br \/>\nSleeping the years of their manhood away.<br \/>\nGive them the meed they have won in the past;<br \/>\nGive them the honors their future forcast;<br \/>\nGive them the chaplets they won in the strife;<br \/>\nGive them the laurels they lost with their life.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Will Carleton<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Flanders Fields the poppies blow<br \/>\nBetween the crosses, row on row,<br \/>\nThat mark our place; and in the sky<br \/>\nThe larks, still bravely singing, fly<br \/>\nScarce heard amid the guns below.<\/p>\n<p>Take up our quarrel with the foe:<br \/>\nTo you from failing hands we throw<br \/>\nThe torch; be yours to hold it high.<br \/>\nIf ye break faith with us who die<br \/>\nWe shall not sleep, though poppies grow<br \/>\nIn Flanders fields.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; John McCrae, In Flanders Fields<\/em><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poignant quotes and verse, lest we forget\u2026 The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them. &#8211; Czeslaw Milosz, The Issa Valley The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children. \u2013 William Havard We must be prepared to make heroic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8736,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730\/revisions\/8736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}