{"id":375,"date":"2011-05-27T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:46:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:46:22","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/memorial-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Collage:<\/a>Every Memorial Day we see the familiar poppies and remember our nation’s war dead. Recalling those that died from the Revolutionary War down through today.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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In Flanders fields the poppies grow<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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Between the crosses, row on row,<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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That mark our place; <\/span><\/em>and in the sky<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

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The larks, still bravely singing, fly<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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Scarce heard amid the guns below.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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We are the Dead. <\/span><\/em>Short days ago<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

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We lived, <\/span><\/em>felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Loved and were loved, and now we lie, <\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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i<\/strong><\/span><\/em>n Flanders fields.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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Take up our quarrel with the foe:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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To you from failing hands we throw<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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The torch; be yours to hold it high.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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If ye break faith with us who die<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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We shall not sleep, though poppies grow<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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In Flanders fields.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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Click here to see John McRae’s handwritten copy of this poem that uses the word “grow” instead of the alternate version “blow”<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Click here to see the news of his death during World War I and burial there in Belgium. <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Printed in the Kansas City Star. 5 February 1918, page 10<\/a> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every Memorial Day we see the familiar poppies and remember our nation’s war dead. Recalling those that died from the Revolutionary War down through today.   In Flanders fields the poppies grow   Between the crosses, row on row,   That mark our place; and in the sky   The larks, still bravely singing, fly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[1126,5302,5306,22,43,455,5366,1038,441,1127,442,2498],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-cambridge","tag-death","tag-faith","tag-marriage","tag-memorial-day","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-newspaper","tag-revolutionary-war","tag-syracuse","tag-united-states","tag-world-war-i"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100206,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/100206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}