We don't have that kind of celebration here in The Jungle, and it sure isn't cold enough for a coat, but I miss the poppies. The poppies and the poem; In Flanders Fields. I posted the poem itself once, a few years ago. This time I thought I'd share the poem set to music. It was probably the first piece of music that really moved me.This isn't exactly the way I remember the song from the poem after so long - my memory isn't all that apparently - but this is a sweet rendition and the images are touching. They remind me of my grandfather somehow, though he was barely born when WWI was raging.
It says Remembrance Day to me:
This is me, lest we forget.
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Thank you for remembering
Thank you for sharing
My students last year sung the song "Flander's Field" repeatedly at 2 events. To be honest, at the first event, you couldn't tell what they were singing and it was an acoustically arranged room. The second location was better, but they also had 5 months to improve.
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