http://www.propeace.net/node/2121 Comments for "VETERANS DAY" en http://www.propeace.net/node/2121#comment-1568 <p>Dear Del Abe Jones</p> <p>I have lived in The Netherlands for 30 years now<br /> and have indeed been often in Belgium in the Flanders Fields filled with the red poppies<br /> and all the veteran's grave markers.</p> <p>And even though my father was a WWII US Marine who volunteered<br /> at age 17 to go to the south pacific<br /> i still hear his voice saying that he would never let his sons go to war.<br /> He died this year at age 82 and his wish has so far been granted.</p> <p>a warm smile<br /> silent lotus</p> <p>" May your voice be loving enough to silence your own fears." ..... silent lotus<br /> <a href="http://www.silentlotus.net" title="www.silentlotus.net">www.silentlotus.net</a></p> Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:25:22 -0500 silent lotus comment 1568 at http://www.propeace.net http://www.propeace.net/node/2121 A National Moment of Remembrance That poem about where “poppies blow” And, “the crosses, row on row” Still rings true, these ninety years After written, still brings tears. We still have Dead, “amid the guns” And lose our young and our loved ones Those who lived, “short days ago” Who, “felt dawn, saw sunset glow”. In Flanders Fields, “the poppy red” http://www.propeace.net/node/2121#comments peace &amp; nonviolence military soldier veteran war Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:56:51 -0500 Abe 2121 at http://www.propeace.net