{"id":10385,"date":"2015-11-11T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=10385"},"modified":"2015-11-11T03:00:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T10:00:26","slug":"in-flanders-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/11\/11\/in-flanders-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"In Flanders Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Though begun as &#8220;Armistice Day,&#8221; Veterans Day has expanded in the United States as a day for all those brave men and women who fight to keep us free, and is celebrated in many other countries who fought in that horrific war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One such brave sould was Canadian physician and Lt.-Col. John McCrae.\u00a0 One hundred years ago he wrote the poem &#8220;In Flanders Field&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 90px;\">In Flanders fields the poppies blow<br \/>\nBetween the crosses, row on row,<br \/>\nThat mark our place; and in the sky<br \/>\nThe larks, still bravely singing, fly<br \/>\nScarce heard amid the guns below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 90px;\">We are the Dead. Short days ago<br \/>\nWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<br \/>\nLoved and were loved, and now we lie<br \/>\nIn Flanders fields.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 90px;\">Take up our quarrel with the foe:<br \/>\nTo you from failing hands we throw<br \/>\nThe torch; be yours to hold it high.<br \/>\nIf ye break faith with us who die<br \/>\nWe shall not sleep, though poppies grow<br \/>\nIn Flanders fields.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On the 11<sup>th<\/sup> hour of the 11<sup>th<\/sup> day of the 11<sup>th<\/sup> month, let us remember they who risked everything for freedom, including their very lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qw02WwiUD8Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/220px-In_Flanders_fields_and_other_poems_handwritten.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"In Flanders fields\" width=\"220\" height=\"311\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/220px-In_Flanders_fields_and_other_poems_handwritten.png 220w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/220px-In_Flanders_fields_and_other_poems_handwritten-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Requiescat in pace.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=In Flanders Fields\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Though begun as 'Armistice Day,' Veterans Day has expanded in the United States as a day for all those brave men and women who fight to keep us free, and is celebrated in many other countries who fought in that horrific war.\"><meta name=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/220px-In_Flanders_fields_and_other_poems_handwritten.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Though begun as &#8220;Armistice Day,&#8221; Veterans Day has expanded in the United States as a day for all those brave men and women who fight to keep us free, and is celebrated in many other countries who fought in that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/11\/11\/in-flanders-fields\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[62,35],"class_list":["post-10385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-terror","tag-patriotism","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10385"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10392,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions\/10392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}