Literary 111111

Today is Veterans Day, originally noted as Armistice Day (or Remembrance Day)  to commemmorate the end of hostilities on the western front of World War I at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.

Today’s prompt comes from John McCrae’s 1915 poem In Flanders Fields:

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

You can read the entire poem by clicking on its title a few lines above, or you can hear a recording of the poem here.

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