Memorial Day remembered

Looking forward to Memorial Day each year, my thoughts are with the folks who have lost family members in wars and other conflicts.  I am grateful for the freedom provided by the men and women who have served our country, and especially for the ones who were killed and will never return.  May we honor and remember them in all we do and say.
The moving World War I poem below sums up the mindset of a Canadian soldier who was sent into a conflict that supposed to last for less than six months and turned out to be perhaps the most horrific war in the history of mankind.  Perhaps the nations of the world are still feeling the effects of WWI today?

IN FLANDERS FIELDS
By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!

Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields

Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915
during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium