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Armistice Day Remembrance
Tue 11th Nov 08 - 14:49

Mary Walsh, Solicitor at Ralli has kindly written a poem entitled Remembrance.

REMEMBRANCE.

The poppy is a delicate flower
Yet belies it's encompassing power
A symbol of the blood and guts
That for our freedom lives were lost.

The men of battle at the Somme
Lost their lives in a war eventually won
The cost of human sacrifice
Given by the loss of life

The lives not all lost in the mud
But in other way so that we all could
Live our lives in relative peace
Our part – to remember and to keep

In both death and the injury
Of living and dying in flea-ridden ignomy
The graves of the war commission
Provide us with a better vision

The lives of the men at the front
Has moved in the years beyond
Two world wars, Falklands and more
The great sacrifice still brought to the fore

The dead, the injured and lifelong tortured
In memory that war has brought us
So celebrate the lives of all women and men
With a poppy, song, march and amen.

On this the 11th day
Of November and not of May
Reminding us of the cold and wet
That peace in our time may come yet.

Mary Walsh, 11 November 2008.